CLEVER S Lyon wins the prize of a flapjack from Karen, The Star sandwich lady, after answering last week's Editor's Chair puzzle.

The teaser, set by reader Brian Morgan, of Holmer Green, had simply asked: "What does N stand for?"

S Lyon, from Tylers Green, e-mailed me saying: "It stands because if it lay down it would become a Z."

Not only was this the quickest correct answer, but S Lyon clearly deserves the prestigious prize after adding: "Yours, in anticipation of the flapjack!"

However, another reader, Eke Webb, e-mailed me with an alternative answer, saying the N stood for the National Anthem.

Meanwhile, Peter Lerner has added his voice to the debate in this column about telly soap characters never sharing the same first name.

Other readers had seemed to disprove this theory last week when they wrote that Brookside had two Jackies, Corkhill and Dixon.

But Peter, who signed his e-mail "yours smugly and pedentically", wrote this week: "What an ignorant lot your readers are.

"Surely they know that, in Brookside, it's Jackie Corkhill and Jacqui Dixon. A world of difference.

"There were far worse problems in Brookie a few years ago when Scouse accents made the bouncy Bev (McLoughlin) almost aurally indistinguishable from the doomed Beth (Jordache)."

Not everyone, though, has enjoyed the soap debate.

Reader Dominic Poulter, of Loudwater, attacked my publication of the issue as "mind-blowing banality".

And he added, in a letter we published just before Christmas: "Had I found this article in Tiny Tots or something, okay, but in a local newspaper run by adults? Come on, surely you can do better?"