perplexity

The following dialogue contains three hidden names - first name and surname - of people featured in front page stories in the Independent this week. The letters of each occur in jumbled form, in complete consecutive words. A prize of Chambers Encyclopaedic Dictionary will be awarded to the first correct solution opened on 6 July. Entries to: Saturday Pastimes, The Independent, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL.

"With politics, cricket and sex, it's been an interesting week."

"I've smoked out Redwood, but I don't, as Clinton might say, inhale his 'elect me' message."

"Or as Major would put it, no sense worrying, hit all the balls for six."

"And talking of lewd acts, how will that actor chappie explain himself?"

"True. He'll be hazy, I expect."