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Competition

Occasional verse Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1582 you were in- vited to react poetically to the knighting of Ronald Reagan by the Queen. Proving how far-flung and......

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......

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No. 1585: Odious Comparisons

`Byzantium was the Milton Keynes of the Roman world' is the first sentence of a description of a book in a publisher's catalogue, kindly sent to me by Mr Keith Smith. You are......