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Competition

Ad verse Jaspistos I N Competition No. 1492 you were asked for an enterprising house agent's advertisement, in verse, offering a proper- ty of any sort. There were so many......

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No. 1495: First Time A Max Beerbohm, Who Hated Going

for walks, said he'd never heard a lark, and no doubt Bernard Shaw never attended a Burns Night celebration and Ronald Fir- bank never fox-hunted. You are invited to provide a......

Crossword 829: Attested By Doc

A first prize of 120 and two further prizes of 110 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first......