18 NOVEMBER 1955, page 68

Competitors With Good Memories For Poetry Or Prepared To...

in an antho - logy hunt are invited (for a prize of £.5) t° concoct a literary plain pudding by fittio together fourteen lines selected front well - known poems. The subject......

Retorts—sometimes Courteous

Competitors were asked for replies from Lucasta to Lovelace. Celia to Ben Jonson, one of the Virgins to Herrick, Anon to Hartley Coleridge, or Lady Clara Vere de Vere to......

Spectator Crossword No. 861

ACROSS I To Join in silent confusion (6). 4 Laertes was advised to memorise " few (8). 8 The spot at which to cross the river, for the cattle (8). 10 Greasy joints (6). 12 'That......

Solution On December 2

Solution to No 859 on page " 4) Ire winners of Crossword No. 859 are: DR. MILLER, 24 India Sficei: fidinburgh 4, and MR, Ii. SHARPY, 112 Fawnbrakc Avenue, Herne ill. SI': 24: '......