16 DECEMBER 1995, Page 97

Christmas Quiz: the answers

Mind my bike 1. Daisy 2. Harry Dacre 3. Orphee 4. 15.84 m.p.h.

5. Norman Tebbit in 1981 6. Marcel Duchamp 7. Coventry B. Vittorio de Sica 9. Steppcnwolf

10. Garrison Theatre (Jack Warner)

One step at a time 1. Hughes Mearns (according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations)

2. Sam Weller (Pickwick Papers)

3. Nova Scotia

4. Kipling on Jane Austen; Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Cervantes; Shakespeare, I think we know 5. El

6. The going

7. The left 8. St Paul 9. 'Ash Wednesday'

10. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 11, Jerome K. Jerome

12. It's just a lodging-room on the third floor at the back of the house.

Box and cocks 1. Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne 2. Chauntecleer 3. Enuna 4. Socrates 5- Walter Ralegh (junior)

6. Tristram Shandy

7. J. M. Morton

8. Isaiah 9. Sir F. Burnand and Sir A. Sullivan 10. Tennyson Where, oh where?

1. Durham 2. Shebbear 3. Hampshire 4. Eleanor (1290) 5. Tan Hill Inn Saints and sinners 1. Bari, Italy 2. April 1945 3. St Apollinaria 4. York 5. St James 6. American 7. A pig 8. The potter's field (the field of blood) 9. Virgil 10. Lord Chesterfield's Flowers and flowers 1. The Severn 2. Sir Gregory Gander (George Ellis)

3. Drayton (in his Poly-Olbion)

4. Blake's 5. At Bab-lock-hithe 6. Daffodils, according to Wordsworth 7. The Humber 8. Violets 9. Kipling 10. In lilac time

Bricks and mortar

1. Barry and Pugin 2. Westminster 3. Castle Howard 4. 18th 5. Brunel 6. Windsor 7. Kehle 8. St Paul's 9. Lutyens 10. 272 ft Alphabet soup C and 3 D and 18 E and 24 F and 1 G and 25 H and 2 I and 17 L and 13 M and 19 N and 4 0 and 14 P and 1 ID and 5 R and 6 S and 7 T and 8 U and 12 V and 20 W and 22 X and 9 Y and 23 Z and 21

Solution to Crossword 1237: Collection box

The defined lights were coLLEcr[vE

NOUNS.

First prize: Paul Dendy, Mold, Clwyd. Runners-up: C.J. Brougham, London W8; Janet de Rhe-Philipe, Warminster, Wilts.