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Solution To 1048: Reductions Symbols Replaced Metals In:...

MERCURY, 6 hot COPPERS, 10 marme, 16 TANTALUM-lamp, 20 pLEAriing, 21 BARIUM meal, 26 coBALT-blue, 31 moNical, 35 SIL- vERling, 40 mariGOLD. Abbrevia- tions suggested by circuit......

Crossword

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......

No. 1722: Odd Comparison

'Shall I compare thee to a . . . ?' You are invited to write a sonnet (Shakespearian) beginning with these words but substituting for 'summer's day' an unexpected trisyll- able,......

�tvas Rat

12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY COMPETITION Snibs Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1719 you were in - vited to invent ` snibs ' — silly or surrealist `news in brief ' items. The most......