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No. 1940: Alphabetical dozen

I return to the attack. You are invited to incorporate the following words, in any order, into a plausible piece of prose (max- imum 150 words: alibi, benchmark, cloacal, diminution, egg, fustian, goy, hypnosis, indi- gestible, jammily, kitty, lambast. Entries to `Competition No. 1940' by 4 July.