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Crossword No.1366

Across 1 The dancer's dodge (4-4) 5 'Dear God! the very houses seem —' (Words- worth) (6) 9 Wine-casks taking musical forms, quite audibly (4-4) 10 'You common — of the skies,......

No. 539: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to compose an intelligible piece of prose around ten given words, taken from the .opening pass- ages of a well-known work of......

Chess No. 427

PHILIDOR W. A. Shinkman (Westen und Duheim, 1910). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 426 (Bartolovic): 1 B - R 1!; 2-7 K-Kt 2 -B 1 -Q 1 -K......