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GCHQ Challenge (July 2005): solution

The answers to the anagrams are:

1 A GINN RIOT (9)ANSWER = RATIONING
2 AGED HUMOR (4,5)ANSWER = HOME GUARD
3 GO DOUBLED (9)ANSWER = DOODLEBUG
4 MEN CHIME AGAIN (6,7)ANSWER = ENIGMA MACHINE
5 NAVY ALDERMEN (4,4,4)ANSWER = DAME VERA LYNN
6 NETHERLANDS ROSE (8,7)ANSWER = ANDERSON SHELTER
7 RASCAL TEN (9)ANSWER = LANCASTER
8 REARWARD INDIA (3,4,6)ANSWER = AIR RAID WARDEN

The answers to the above anagrams are copied into the boxes, (a) to (h), below. For those boxes which are numbered, each letter is copied onto the Solution Grid to reveal the phrase "The goose that laid the golden egg but never cackled".

a 13 .. .. 37 .. 07 01 33 ..
L A N C A S T E R
b 36 .. 09 .. .. .. 15 .. 04
R A T I O N I N G
c 43 06 21 .. 22 .. 29 .. 20
D O O D L E B U G
d 18 .. .. 35 27 30 14 .. ..
H O M E G U A R D
e 08 .. .. 28 .. .. .. .. 39 10 .. .. 42
E N I G M A M A C H I N E
f 16 .. .. 24 34 .. .. .. 41 .. .. 25
D A M E V E R A L Y N N
g 38 .. .. .. .. .. 23 .. 11 .. .. 03 32
A I R R A I D W A R D E N
h .. .. .. 26 .. .. 05 .. .. 02 19 .. 17 .. ..
A N D E R S O N S H E L T E R

Solution Grid

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
T H E G O O S E T H A T
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
L A I D T H E G O L D E N
26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
E G G B U T N E V E R
37 38 39 40 41 42 43
C A C K L E D

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