11 FEBRUARY 1989, page 52

Competition

The lesser breeds Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1560 you were in- vited to write a poem celebrating one of the less publicised inmates of a zoo. I once worked in a zoo, but only......

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Crossword 895: Plain Speaking By Jac

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions......

No. 1563: Sorry, Wrong Title

Supposing Stevenson had written Travels with a Monkey, or Hemingway The Old Man and the Pea, or Graham Greene Journey Without Mass, how would the blurb-writer have described the......