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Solution To Crossword 734: What Rotters!

The unclued lights are all fungi. 24A: FINANCE also acceptable. 7D: This variant spelling has been dropped from the latest Chambers. Winners: John L. Cope, London SW6 (£20); F.......

No. 1401: Beastly Chorus

You are invited to supply a Gilbertian `Song of Santa's Reindeer' (maximum 1, lines). Entries to 'Competition No. 1401' by Thursday, 19 December.......

Competition

Latin exercise . Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1398 you were asked to write a poem in English but in a Latin metre. Down in a deep, dark hole sat an old cow chewing a beanstalk:......