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Competition

B ure aucrassy Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1575 you were asked to provide an imaginary office memo con- taining bossy, superfluous or incompre- hensible instructions or......

No. 1578: Short Ballade

You are invited to write an abbreviated ballade (two eight-line stanzas and a four- line envoi) in which the last line of the octets and of the envoi are either 'The Minister......

Crossword

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions......

Solution To 907: Work-out 1 . 9 F 11 4 S4...,f1 'a 1 . 1...

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