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PEACE ENGLISHMEN

Prizes: Gloucester; Brewer's Flintshire;

ON EARTH and MERCY MILD are assoc'ated with NOEL (4). COW- (55) suggested 43, 11D, 33, 46D and 52. GAY (93D) suggested 8, 35D and 39. Noel Coward is associa ed with MAD DOGS AND (21), Noel Gay with THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON (14).

£120: Sir Norman Price, Eastbourne. £30 each: Mrs B. Side. A.D.P. Briggs, Bristol; J. Harrington, Weybridge, Surrey. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: John Coleby, Buckley, R.C. Teuton, Stockcross, Berks; Meg Bortin, Paris, France; E.J. Shields, Stroud, Glos; John Hart, Malvern, Wares; K. Nor- Cheltenham, Glos.