This one had me going spherical the homes for some time. After a number of lifeless ends, I lastly noticed that throughout the grid have been hid the names of…

a number of Presidents of the USA (Biden, Truman, Van Buren, Johnson, Roosevelt, Bush, Ford…).

But understanding that there are purported to be 47 entries within the grid, this provides us an apparent downside:

There have solely been 46 US Presidents thus far! (Counting Grover Cleveland’s two non-concurrent phrases individually, as is conference…)

However, these names even have a second factor in widespread – along with the above, they’ve additionally all been…

Vice-Presidents of the USA! And as might be seen from Wikipedia there have been 49 of those thus far. A fast inspection reveals that three of those have been referred to as ‘Johnson’, which leaves us with 47 distinctive names as required – good fodder for this Boggle grid!

The solutions can all be discovered as follows:

NB Purple color used for minor overlaps between two names. ‘Johnson’ solely proven as soon as (Grid 3).

Grid 1: Adams, Jefferson, Burr, Clinton;
Grid 2: Gerry, Tompkins, Calhoun;
Grid 3: Van Buren, Johnson, Tyler, Dallas, Fillmore, King;
Grid 4: Breckinridge, Hamlin, [Johnson], Colfax, Wilson, Wheeler, Arthur;
Grid 5: Hendricks, Morton, Stevenson, Hobart;
Grid 6: Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Sherman, Marshall;
Grid 7: Coolidge, Dawes, Curtis, Garner;
Grid 8: Wallace, Truman, Barkley, Nixon, [Johnson], Humphrey, Agnew, Ford;
Grid 9: Rockefeller, Mondale, Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden;
Grid 10: Pence, Harris.

Note that there are some ambiguities right here – multiple technique to path out explicit phrases, and a few methods to do ‘Gore’ in several components of the grid (begin on the G midway down column 2 to search out one other…) – however this diagram exhibits the ways in which I initially discovered them whereas fixing…

Finally, if we spotlight all cells utilized in our 47 thematic phrases, the leftover letters spell out a thematic phrase…

However, at this level we have to resolve a number of the ambiguities to search out the meant reply. Objectively, all cells shaded darkish gray listed here are undoubtedly used, and people which are shaded gentle gray might be used however are ambiguous:

To discover the hidden phrase, let’s ensure that just a few of our entries seem particularly locations:

Here:
– Gore seems top-right (not on the left-hand-side, as we have to use that ‘O’);
– Hendricks is spelled shifting southeast from the ‘I’ slightly than northwest;
– Humphrey is spelled utilizing the topmost of the 2 ‘H’s;
– Pence is spelled utilizing the leftmost of the 2 ‘E’s;
– Roosevelt might be spelled one among two methods, so long as the rightmost ‘E’ is used;
– Fillmore stays ambiguous and might use both of two E’s (the opposite will stay unshaded).

Once these concerns are taken into consideration, the leftover letters spell A SPARE TIRE ON THE AUTO – an acceptable description for the position of Vice-President!

As for the title:

A spare tyre/tire is called a ‘Stepney‘ in some components of the world, with its origins in Wales in 1904.