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Crossword No. 1342

Across 1 Poles having an inner conflict, all due to the birds! (8) 5 Gliding fish (6) 9 Mrs Mopp with the china, delightful! (8) 10 Warren detective (6) 12 Garland, neatly......

No. 517: The Word Game

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the ten following words, taken from the opening passages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to construct part of......

No. 515: The Winners Trevor Grove Reports: Competitors...

to compose an octet, using the given rhyme words, on either summer holidays in England, the us presidential election, or a postman's apologia for the higher postal charges . . .......

Chess No. 403

PHILIDOR Black White 5 men 7 men J. Berger (Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1887). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 402 (Loshinski): B - B 6.......