5 DECEMBER 1998, page 75

Competition

Not so dumb friends Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 2062 you were invited to supply a poem, sweet or sour, written by a pet for the tomb of its late master or mistress. There's......

Solution To 1388: Mad Hatter's Threat Mad Hatter's Threat

The unclued lights were ANAGRAMS of ride, road, rose, point, love, gear, straits, weather, stupor and sale, each of which formed a phrase when fol- lowing a word given in the......

Crossword

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 December, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the......

No. 2065: Christmas Travel

T.S. Eliot wrote a poem, 'The Journey of the Magi', in which one of the three Wise Men, or Kings, describes the trip to Beth- lehem. You are invited to follow suit, in any mood......