NORTH  KQ82  8743  QJ7  QJ  T6  AQJ5  AT64  852    J9753  K96  83  T73    A4  T2  K952  AK964

Dealer: North    Vul: Both   MP Scoring West Pass Pass Pass North Pass 1 3N East Pass Pass Pass South 1 1N Pass

West led the T. Declarer took stock.

Declarer's opening bid of a diamond envisioned a 2 rebid.
When North bid 1, South, with a stopper in spades and a probable combined stopper in hearts, decided to bid 1N instead, showing 2 hearts and a balanced 11 to 14 points.
The 2 alternative is a less precise range of 11 to 17 and weakly suggests fewer than 2 spades.

What is your plan as declarer?
With at least 4 heart losers and a top diamond loser off the top, down 1 might be an expected result.
If hearts block, perhaps 3N would make, very unlikely given the missing 9.
Also possible was a 5:2 heart division when 3N without blockage would be down 2.

Declarer won the first spade in dummy with the K and tried to sneak a diamond trick by leading toward the K.
Leading the Q instead might have made communication with dummy easier, but would have made easier for an East that MIGHT have had the A to win and start hearts.

West won the diamond and tried spades again, East quite possibly having held such as AJ9x(x).
South won in hand perforce the A and cashed 3 rounds of diamonds, hoping that a player with 4 clubs to the T might discard one based on the premise that South couldn't hold as many as 5 clubs for the 1 opener.
Club had divided anyway and declarer ended with 2 diamonds, 3 spades and 5 clubs.

How would your system of defence faired on this hand?