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Competition

Mammon Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1604 you were in- vited to compose a sonnet to Mammon, indulging your fantasies, beginning, or not, with Belloc's line: 'Would that I had......

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No. 1607: Abecedarian

We all know 'An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,/ Boldly, by battery, besieged Bel- grade.' You are challenged to write a similar 'alphabet' poem, covering 12 con- secutive......

Crossword 939: Jonathan By Mass

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......