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Competition

Oddball cast Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1613 you were given the names of BeachcoMber's 12 red- bearded dwarfs and asked to provide au- thor's descriptions of six of them, as......

Solution To 944: 90

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No. 1616: Arthur's Answer

Please carry on in a Tennysonian manner (for a maximum of another 15 lines), assuming that the well - known line near the end of Idylls of the King reads: ' And slowly answered......

Crossword 947: Dressing-case By Mass

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......