13 APRIL 1991, page 52

Competition

Homophonics Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1671 you were in- vited to write a poem in which the rhymes are homophones. A homophone, says my dictionary, is 'a word pronounced......

Crossword

1004: Snow-whitish 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......

Solution To 1001: Thirty-three — Ct 01 Cd Cc 4 O

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No. 1674: Sunny Side Down

You are invited to make the metre of FitzGerald's translation of the Rubdiyat the vehicle for a message not of hedonistic cheer but puritanical gloom. Maximum 16 lines. Entries......