The unclued lights are ACCENTS or DIACRITICAL SIGNS and any appearing on letters in the grid had to be ignored.
First prize Professor Colin Ratledge, E. Yorkshire
Runners-up V.A. Plomer, Swindon; B. Taylor, Bolton
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