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No. 1643: Hyper-inflation

` Let sleeping dogs lie ' has been poetically hyper - inflated to: If somnolescent on the ground you view Some huge exemplar of the canine crew, Beware with fierce and......

Chess

Arabian knights Raymond Keene W ith Baghdad in the news it is in- teresting to point out that this city was once the world capitalof chess. In the 9th and 10th centuries AD......

12 Year Old Scotch Whisky

V ITAS REG. 44 12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY ININ I n Competition No. 1640 you were in- vited to invent words which ought to but don ' t exist, accompanied by definitions and......