18 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 81

Solution To 1428: Figure It Out

The unclued lights yield the sequence I to 9. Nine normal solutions are adapted before entry to include these nine figures: e.g. G1LTWOOD at 42 is entered as GIL2oo. First......

No. 2105: Raison D'être

Prospective peers are being asked to pro- vide written reasons why they should con- tinue to exist. You are asked to imagine that the present or some future govern- ment has......

Crossword 1431: And To Follow By Doc

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 October, with two runners- up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the......

In Competition No. 2102 You Were Invited To Take The

first one or two lines of a well-known poem and continue in a frivolous direction. This was the most numerous entry I have ever been faced with. No comedian minds a big house,......