26 AUGUST 1955, page 28

Spectator Crossword No. 849

ACROSS 1 They arrived with pounds and shillings 1 (6). 4 Hurry up to cook the eggs (8). 10 Girls. it takes one aback! (7) 11 The birds' enclosure doesn't lack food (7)- ' 12......

Spectator Competition No. 289 ' Set By John Barlow...

is said to have started a 'chain-reaction' in the countryside (fewer rabbits—less food for stoats—stoats eat more squirrels—fewer squirrels means more wood-pigeons, and so on).......

Solution On September 9 Solution To No 847 On Page

iii The winners of Crossword No. 847 are Mm P. D. LYALL, Hamlield Painswick, Glos., and MR. G. W. PARRY, 1.1 Scotland Road, BRCIdnif,I Hill , Essex.......

. . . And Now, Over To Elah'

Competitors were asked to imagine that a device had been given to radio sports commentators that enabled them to see events as they took place in the past. The usual prize was......