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No. 2106: Sick Joke

You are invited to provide a prose narra- tive with this as a title, incorporating 12 words or phrases normally associated with hospitals but using them in a non-medical sense.......

Competition

M'lud Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 2103 you were told that a motorist was recently repri- manded by the police for wearing welling- ton boots filled with baked beans in tomato......

Solution To 1429: Tyre

TYRIAN PURPLE (10 19) was A NOTABLE DYE OUT OF A PLACE IN ANCIENT PHOENICIA, i.e. Tyre. Other circuit lights were shellfish from which the dye was obtained. First prize: G.A.......

Crossword

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 11 October, with two runners- up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the......