23 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 53

Crossword

A first prize of 120 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

Speaking likeness Torn Castro I n Competition No. 1592 you were in- vited to reveal what some famous painting would say if it could speak. Not surprisingly, although many of the......

No. 1595: Dead, Stolen Or Strayed

When Germaine Greer recently wrote about the loss of her parrot, someone in a letters column asked, 'Have we no modern Catullus who could console her by immor- talising this......

Solution To 924: Turncoats Circuit Lights (from Radials...

12 — a rat compound — 19, 28, 37) are rodents. Inner circuit: APOSTATISE. Winners: J. Light, Weybridge (£20); Thomas East, Pinner, Middx; Sue Brownlie, Berinsfield, Oxon.......