Best Defence Required

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Pairs
Green square in centre
  1. spade7 4 3
  2. heartK Q 6
  3. diamondK 9 3
  4. club9 7 5 2

Contract: 3club
Declarer: North
Lead: heartK
  1. spadeK 9 6 5
  2. heartJ 10 7 3 2
  3. diamond6 4
  4. clubK 8
West North East South
Pass Pass
1heart 2club 2heart 3club
Pass Pass Pass
It looks as though partner is signalling for a spade (otherwise why heart5?) but your first duty must be to shorten dummy's ruffing potential by switching to a low trump. Sure enough declarer rises with clubK and leads a diamond to his queen and your king.

Now what?
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