SPECTATOR TWIN-TOWN TREASURE HUNT

TTSet by Caroline Moore he first three winners of the eight-week Spectator Twin-Town Treasure Hunt will receive outstanding prizes.

The first prize has been presented by Framlington. It is 2,000 units in Framlington Monthly Income Fund. At the current offer price of 113.4p, these are worth £2,268. The unit price was up 41 per cent last year. This unit trust also offers a monthly income, paid straight into your bank.

The second prize is a weekend break in Madrid for two, flying from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester by Iberia Air Lines and staying within walking distance of the Retiro Park, at the four-star Hotel Velazquez. The prize includes £100 spending money. For a brochure describing the prize and many other holidays arranged by Mundi Color, the specialists in visits to Spain for discerning travellers, phone 01-834 3492.

The third prize is a case of 1979 Louis Roederer champagne donated by El Vino Co Ltd.

Students will have an extra chance to win a special prize of a choice of 10 records or cassettes from the Editions EG catalogue. There will also be many other prizes, including wine and books by Spectator writers.

How to take part

In each issue of the Spectator from 7 February to 28 March, Competitors are asked to identify two British place-names, (a) and (b); these may include boroughs of London or old villages now absorbed into it. In the final week, the last clue Will enable you to decode the answer from the place-names you have collected. As usual, bonus marks will be given for identifying quotations and briefly explaining allusions; but it will be possible to crack the code and reach the final answer without getting all the references. Good luck!

To win you must send in an answer form from each week of the competition with your final solution. Back numbers are available from the Spectator at £1.35, including postage. The closing date for entries is 18 April. No entries will be opened till then. If several correct and complete answers are received the winner will be decided by lot. The final arbiter is the editor of the Spectator. The competition is not open to employees of the Spectator or their relatives. Important: Please keep the answer form, as you will need to send it in at the end of the competition with the subsequent forms. If you need more space, you may write your answers on plain paper.

Sixth clue

a) The place — whose MP was one of five fugitive birds, and was besieged in the House by a mob of women demonstrating for peace and clamouring to throw him into the Thames — several of whom were killed in Palace Yard before the demonstration was dispersed.

— or Place where T in real life shared lodgings with the friend who joined him at Weybridge with a 'strange, wild look glittering in his eyes', carrying 'rather a curious oil-skin-covered parcel in his hand. It was round and flat at one end, with a long straight handle sticking out of it', looked like a frying pan, but needed an instruction book... .

— that shares its name with the square where the original of the following portrait proposed to his future wife, Flo, in a flat belonging to the writer:

He was formed physically in a 'musical' mould, classical in type, with a massive, Beethoven-shaped head, high forehead, temples swelling outwards, eyes and nose somehow bunched together in a way to make him glare at times like a High Court Judge about to pass sentence. On the other hand, his short, dark, curly hair recalled a dissipated cherub, a less aggressive, more intellectual version of Folly in Bronzino's picture, rubicund and mischievous, as he threatens with a fusillade of rose petals the embrace of Venus and Cupid; while Time in the background, whiskered like the Emperor Franz-Josef, looms behind a curtain as if evasively vacating the bathroom.

b) The place — that gave its name to the street where 'Karol' took lodgings with room for three pianos, in the year after the end of his notorious liaison with cigar-smoking `Lucrezia' — with whom he went on a holiday in Majorca, where the rain permanently undermined his health.

— where a 72-year-old ex-Swedish soldier, who suffered from the recurrent delusion that he was pregnant with an elephant, was welcomed by a crowd that pulled his carriage in triumph through the streets.

— where the artist who had an extraordinarily detailed and life-sized doll made in imitation of the widow he loved broke his journey to London to paint a picture.

Answer form — 6

Name Address