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Crossword No. 1355

Across 1 Sulky canine (5, 3) 5 Seizes a large number of snakes (6) 9 Rousseau in customary guise! (8) 10 No baldhead, the doctor, and perhaps a trace of goatee) (6) 12 Halifax......

No. 528: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were in- vited to compose a papal encyclical on tax evasion, parking meters, the use of chemical hair removers or any other suitably unlikely......

Chess No. 416

PHILIDOR Black White 3 men 6 men Specially contributed by G. K. Hicks (Wolver- hampton). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 415 (Bernard):......