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Donate your body later and your blood now | Brief letters

How about adding a link online to how people can donate their own or a connected person’s body in the UK, together with giving blood or plasma in life?

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated October 27, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC
Key points
  • When our brother died in the 1960s, our parents agreed that any useful bits could be recycled.
  • There is a second nine-letter word: “triactine”, a zoological term for “three-rayed”.
  • The nine-letter solution given for the puzzle of 20 October was “intricate”.

How about adding a link online to how people can donate their own or a connected person’s body in the UK, together with giving blood or plasma in life?

Peter Bottomley London • The Word wheel puzzle in your print edition states “there is at least one nine-letter word to be found”.

I came late to regular blood-giving; even so, with the retirement age abolished, my number is over 100.

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