17 JANUARY 1987, page 37

No. 1457: Books, Books, Books

Recently the Times Information Service listed some of last year's silliest titles. They included Board Meetings in the Bath, How to Boil an Egg: Simple Cookery for One, Knit......

Crossword A First Prize Of £20 And Two Further Prizes

of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 2 February.......

Solution To Christmas Jumbo (unclued Lights Are In Capitals)

ACROSS: 1 PEPSI-COLA 6 Marriage contracts 15 Rastafarian 16 Gofar 17 Fractious 18 Letting 19 Infatuated 20 Rear axle 22 Hesperiidae 25 Fiend 26 Entombed 28 Alodium 30 Midsts 31......

Competition

Disprover(b)s Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1454 you were in- vited to supply a narrative poem disproving a proverb. A multiplicity of reasons — the mind- numbing cold, the......