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Competition Entries

To enable competitors to economise on postage, entries for one or more weeks of the competition and crossword may be posted together under one cover addressed 'Competition......

Crossword

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first......

No. 1481: Tidying Down

You are invited to reduce some blank verse of Shakespeare (please specify the pas- sage) to banal heroic couplets typical of poor. 18th-century poetry (maximum 16 lines).......

Solution To 812: My Word!

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Competition

Tennisonian Jaspistos I N Competition No. 1478 you were invited to write a poem on any aspect of Wimbledon. After the war (you know the one I mean) I used to sleep on the grass......