Puzzle 6 - Sunflower
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The flower-shaped red foil patch on the back of the note is based on the image of a sunflower head linked to Alan Turing's morphogenetic (study of patterns in nature) work in later life.


MARGOT - The clued words are given in alphabetical order. They are:
BABOLAT, BASTIAT, CONTRAT, DINGBAT, DOGMEAT, FLOREAT,
JANMAAT, MEGABAT, PICOSAT, PLUGHAT, RATATAT, RETREAT.
There is a unique way to place these in the sunflower, starting from the outside, with the last two letters AT given by the centre circle. The shaded cells give the solution word, reading clockwise.
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