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No. 1662: Ursine

There is a stage direction in The Winter's Tale: 'Exit, pursued by a bear.' You are invited to supply (maximum 16 lines of verse or 150 words of prose) an extract from an......

Crossword 992: Noteworthy, Too 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......

Competition

Dirty dozen Jaspistos 12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY I n Competition No. 1659 you were in- vited to incorporate the following words, in any order, into a plausible piece of prose:......