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Solution To 870: Us And Us L ' I F 3 F

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Crossword

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three......

Competition

Undespondent Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1537 you were in- vited to pen a poetic paean on Slough to offset Betjeman's rude lines on the subject. It was last October that a......

No. 1540: Myself When Young

You are invited to provide a paragraph, consisting of one sentence (of about 150 words), from an early chapter of an im- aginary old-fashioned egotistical auto- biography.......