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. . . declarer should win Q at trick two and draw trumps. Eleven tricks are now assured. Dummy is entered with K, A is cashed and the diamonds tested. When they break 4-2 South rattles off the remaining trumps and West is show-up squeezed in the minors. This was the position at trick eleven when South led the last trump. West cannot throw a diamond - which would make South's 5 a winner - so he throws a club. When South leads a club at trick twelve, West's K "shows up".
Had East turned up with four diamonds and K the squeeze could still operate, but at trick twelve declarer would be faced with a choice of whether to finesse Q against West's king or assume that East had been really squeezed and play for the drop.
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