1	02/04/1930	A Musical Crossword		100	1	Clues concern music.
2	09/04/1930	A 'Scientific' Crossword		121	1	Clues concern science.
3	16/04/1930	An Indian Crossword		185	1	Grid is in the shape of India; clues concern India.
4	23/04/1930	A St. George's Day Crossword		127	1	Grid is in the shape of England; clues concern England.
5	30/04/1930	A Cricket Crossword		169	1	Clues concern cricket.
6	07/05/1930	A Latin Crossword		144	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
7	14/05/1930			169	1	Normal.
8	21/05/1930	A Botanical Crossword		196	1	Clues concern botany.
9	28/05/1930			127	1R	Grid has black squares.
10	04/06/1930	A Greek Crossword		169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
11	11/06/1930			138	1	Grid has black squares.
12	18/06/1930	A German Crossword		169	1	Clues and lights are in German.
13	25/06/1930			164	1R	"Grid has black squares, forming a cross."
14	02/07/1930	A French Crossword		169	1	Lights are entered in French.
15	09/07/1930			127	1R	Grid has black squares.
16	16/07/1930	A Latin Crossword		149	4R	Grid has black squares; lights are entered in Latin.
17	23/07/1930			148	1	Grid has black squares; clues mainly concern science.
18	30/07/1930	Crossword Old Style	Doggerel	143	1	"Clues are couplets, and most have some subsidiary indications."
19	06/08/1930	The Unfortunate Magician	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative with definitions given.
20	13/08/1930	A Musical Crossword		141	2	Grid has empty squares; clues concern music.
21	20/08/1930	A Cricket Crossword		193	1	"Grid is a cricket ground, with two Australian batsmen and eleven English fielders; these names are isolated from the rest of the grid. All clues concern cricket."
22	27/08/1930	A French Crossword		129	4R	Grid has black squares; lights are entered in French.
23	03/09/1930	A Miscellaneous Crossword		140	1	Grid has black squares.
24	10/09/1930	A Literary Crossword	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations.
25	17/09/1930	A Miscellaneous Crossword		144	1	Normal.
26	24/09/1930	Greek Crossword		169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
27	01/10/1930	German Crossword		196	1	Clues and lights are in German.
28	08/10/1930	Treasure Hunt Crossword		132	1	"Clues are contained in a manuscript purporting to be an account of pirates, some letters down the middle of which are indecipherable and must be deduced."
29	15/10/1930	Virgil Bi-Millenary Crossword		225	1	"Grid has black squares, forming the letters PVM; clues are mainly incomplete Virgilian quotations."
30	22/10/1930	A Motor Show Crossword		104	1	Grid appears to have a car grille in it; clues concern cars.
31	29/10/1930	A Crossword for Everyman		169	1	Normal.
32	05/11/1930	Guy Fawkes Crossword		132	1	Clues are definitions found in lines of doggerel.
33	12/11/1930	Miscellaneous Crossword		128	1R	Grid has black squares.
34	19/11/1930	Architectural Crossword		169	1	Clues concern architecture.
35	26/11/1930	Rhymed Crossword		72	1	Clues are rhyming couplets.
36	03/12/1930	Wireless Crossword-Clue Competition		49	1	Grid consists of six words defined by their position in the BBC Year-Book; solvers are to submit clues to three of them.
37	10/12/1930	Miscellaneous Crossword		156	1	Normal.
38	17/12/1930	Wireless Crossword		134	1	Grid appears to have a radio in it; clues concern wireless.
39	24/12/1930					Writing competition.
40	31/12/1930					Writing competition.
41	07/01/1931	Towns and Villages in Great Britain		144	1	Clues concern British towns.
42	07/01/1931	(overseas)		135	1R	"Normal, for overseas solvers (no solution ever published)."
43	14/01/1931	Greek (from Herodotus)	Janus	169	1	Clues refer to Herodotus; lights are entered in Greek.
44	21/01/1931		Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
45	28/01/1931	French Crossword	Janus	164	1R	Lights are entered in French.
46	04/02/1931	Dickens		210	1	Clues refer to Dickens.
47	04/02/1931	(overseas) Canada		124	1	"Clues concern Canada, for overseas solvers (no solution ever published)."
48	11/02/1931	St. Valentine's Day		117	1	Grid is heart-shaped; clues concern Valentines.
49	18/02/1931	Virgilian	Janus	238	1R	Clues concern Virgil.
50	25/02/1931	Jewel-Lore	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern jewels.
51	04/03/1931	Faraday	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern Faraday.
52	11/03/1931	Greek	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
53	18/03/1931	'Hard Lines'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
54	25/03/1931	Spanish		209	1	Lights are entered in Spanish.
55	01/04/1931	All Fool's Day	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern April Fools.
56	08/04/1931	Latin		182	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
57	15/04/1931	Budgetary	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern the Budget.
58	22/04/1931	St. George's Day	Janus	156	1	Grid is in the shape of England; clues concern England.
59	29/04/1931	German Literary Maze		256	1	"Grid is maze-like, with minimal checking; clues are incomplete quotations from German literature."
60	06/05/1931	'Random Rhyme'	Doggerel	144	1	All clues are rhymes.
61	13/05/1931	Greek (Homer)		169	1	Several clues refer to Homer; lights are entered in Greek.
62	20/05/1931	'Knotty'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
63	27/05/1931	Miscellaneous	Janus	142	1R	Normal.
64	03/06/1931	'Derby Day'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern racing and are in doggerel.
65	10/06/1931	Latin (Horace)	Janus	169	1	Several clues concern Horace; lights are entered in Latin.
66	17/06/1931	'Royal'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern royalty.
67	24/06/1931	Italian Literature		205	1	Grid is Times-style; clues concern Italian literature.
68	01/07/1931	'North America'	Doggerel	181	1	Grid is in the shape of North America; clues refer to things American.
69	08/07/1931	Greek	Janus	182	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
70	15/07/1931	'St. Swithin's Day'	Doggerel	100	1	Clues concern rain.
71	22/07/1931	The Arts	Janus	154	2R	"Grid is in four parts: clues to two of them concern literature, the others visual arts and music."
72	29/07/1931	Mainly Scientific	Janus	133	1R	Clues mostly concern scientific matters.
73	05/08/1931	The Great War		96	4R	"Grid is in four parts: clues to them concern Army, Air Force, Civil and Navy."
74	12/08/1931	Latin	Janus	180	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
75	19/08/1931	'A Quiet Holiday'	Doggerel	132	1	Narrative concerning a holiday.
76	26/08/1931	'Components'		96	1	Lights are clued with reference to words contained in them.
77	02/09/1931	The Torn Diagram	Doggerel	132	1	One corner of the diagram appears to have been torn off.
78	09/09/1931	Greek	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
79	16/09/1931	'Parliamentary'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern governments.
80	23/09/1931	Miscellaneous	Janus	148	1R	Normal.
81	30/09/1931	Latin	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
82	07/10/1931	'The Thruster' (13 dn.) [Pioneer]	Doggerel	132	1	Narrative poem concerning hunting.
83	14/10/1931	Greek	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
84	21/10/1931	'Trafalgar Day'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern the Battle of Trafalgar.
85	28/10/1931	Latin	Janus	133	1R	Lights are entered in Latin.
86	04/11/1931	'Hallowe'en'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Hallowe'en.
87	11/11/1931	Greek - Armistice Day	Janus	143	1	Clues concern war; lights are entered in Greek.
88	18/11/1931	Miscellaneous	Janus	169	1	Normal.
89	25/11/1931	Latin	Janus	137	4R	Lights are entered in Latin.
90	02/12/1931	'Jingle'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
91	09/12/1931	Greek	Janus	129	4R	Lights are entered in Greek.
92	16/12/1931	A Wireless Crossword		90	1	Clues concern wireless.
93	23/12/1931	'Our Christmas Card'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern Christmas; grid already contains 'A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU'.
94	30/12/1931	'Tempus Fugit'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern time.
95	06/01/1932	'Plain'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
96	13/01/1932	Latin	Janus	143	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
97	20/01/1932	'Puzzlers'	Doggerel	156	1	"Clues, in doggerel, concern puzzlers."
98	27/01/1932	'Lewis Carroll'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern Lewis Carroll.
99	03/02/1932	Miscellaneous	Janus	146	1	Normal.
100	10/02/1932	Greek	Janus	142	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
101	17/02/1932	'Phonetic'	Doggerel	130	1	"Clues are couplets: the first line refers to the light, the second to how it sounds."
102	24/02/1932	'Leap Year'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues concern leap years.
103	02/03/1932	'Signs and Wonders'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern signs and wonders.
104	09/03/1932	Horace	Janus	144	1	"Clues concern Horace; lights are entered in Latin. (Published with number 104(A), a normal puzzle.)"
105	16/03/1932	'Irish Stew'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Ireland.
106	23/03/1932	Goethe		132	1	Clues are taken from Goethe.
107	30/03/1932	April	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern April.
108	06/04/1932	'Infants of the Spring'		144	1	"Unclued lights form 'THE FIELDS AND GARDENS WERE BESET WITH TULIPS, CROCUS, VIOLET; AND NOW, THOUGH LATE, THE MODEST ROSE DID MORE THAN HALF A BLUSH DISCLOSE'."
109	13/04/1932	Greek Miscellaneous	Janus	147	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
110	20/04/1932	'Culinary'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern cooking.
111	27/04/1932	Mathematical		92	1	Numerical puzzle.
112	04/05/1932	'Da Capo'		169	1	"Unclued lights form 'THAT'S THE WISE THRUSH: HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER, LEST YOU SHOULD THINK HE NEVER COULD RECAPTURE THAT FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE'."
113	11/05/1932	Latin	Janus	146	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
114	18/05/1932	'Jangle'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
115	25/05/1932	'Empire'	Doggerel	144	1	"Clues concern empires; unclued lights are LAWRENCE, PITT, RALEIGH, COOK, HASTINGS, PENN, LIVINGSTONE, CLIVE, RHODES, DRAKE, ANSON."
116	01/06/1932	'Night'		144	1	"Unclued lights form 'NOW THE LIGHT O' THE WEST IS A-TURN'D TO GLOOM, AN' THE MEN BE AT HWOME VROM GROUND; AN' THE BELLS BE A-ZENDEN ALL DOWN THE COOMBE, FROM TOWER, THEIR MWOANSOME SOUND'."
117	08/06/1932	Greek		146	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
118	15/06/1932	'Potatory'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern drinking.
119	22/06/1932	'Applied Mathematics'		144	1	"Many clues have a mathematical flavour; unclued lights form 'THE LOWEST COMMON MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE MAY SERVE FOR DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS OF PARABOLIC CURVE. BUT FALLING OFF A LOG, HOWEVER EASY PI MAY BE, REQUIRES A POWER DEVELOPED TO THE N-PLUS-ONETH DEGREE'."
120	29/06/1932	Miscellaneous		141	4R	Normal.
121	06/07/1932	'Diagonal'		144	4	Clues are in doggerel; diagonals spell MOLLYCODDLES and APRONSTRINGS.
122	13/07/1932	Latin	Janus	148	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
123	20/07/1932	'Old Wives' Tales'	Afrit	169	1	"Clues concern Old Wives' tales; certain lights form 'BETTER IT IS TO RISE BETIME, AND TO MAKE HAY WHILE SUN DOTH SHINE, THAN TO BELIEVE IN TALES AND LIES, WHICH IDLE MONKS AND FRIARS DEVISE'."
124	27/07/1932	'Cross-number'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
125	03/08/1932	'An Echo'	Doggerel	169	1	Clues are couplets.
126	10/08/1932	Greek	Janus	149	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
127	17/08/1932	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
128	24/08/1932	Italian Literature		212	1	Grid is Times-style; clues concern Italian literature.
129	31/08/1932	'Very Mathematical'	Afrit	144	1	Clues have a mathematical flavour; certain lights are anagrams of words given as cryptograms.
130	07/09/1932	'Jumble'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
131	14/09/1932	'Whirligig'	Afrit	169	4	Clues are in doggerel; ENGLISH HISTORY and ECHOING GALLERY appear in a diamond shape.
132	21/09/1932	'Scott'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern or are taken from works of Scott.
133	28/09/1932	Latin - Tacitus		143	1	Clues concern Tacitus; lights are entered in Latin.
134	05/10/1932	'Pedagoguery'	Afrit	169	1	Clues concern schools; certain lights form 'THERE WE MET WITH FAMOUS MEN SET IN OFFICE O'ER US; AND THEY BEAT ON US WITH RODS FOR THE LOVE THEY BORE US'.
135	12/10/1932	'Missing in the Wilds'	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative extract from the diary of an African hunter.
136	19/10/1932	'Wren'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Wren.
137	26/10/1932	Greek	Janus	146	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
138	02/11/1932	'Cross-number II'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
139	09/11/1932	'London and Lord Mayor's Day'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern London.
140	16/11/1932	'B.B.C. Birthday'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern birthdays and the B.B.C. (ten years old).
141	23/11/1932	Latin	Janus	146	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
142	30/11/1932	'Gradatim'	Afrit	144	1	"Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next."
143	07/12/1932	'Straightforward'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
144	14/12/1932	Greek	Janus	145	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
145	21/12/1932	'Greeting'	Doggerel	132	1	The completed grid spells THE LISTENER WISHES YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
146	28/12/1932	'Cross-number III'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
147	04/01/1933	'Diagonal II'	Afrit	144	4	Diagonals spell JACK-A-LANTERN and WILL-O'-THE-WISP.
148	11/01/1933	Latin	Janus	148	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
149	18/01/1933	'Poets'	Doggerel	156	1	"Lights are names of poets, clued by extracts from their works."
150	25/01/1933	'Mythematical'	Afrit	144	1	Some lights are taken from the first verse of 'Jabberwocky'; others are clued by equations involving the numerical values of their letters.
151	01/02/1933	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
152	08/02/1933	'Epigrams'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern epigrams.
153	15/02/1933	'A Valentine'	Afrit	144	1	"Certain lights form the acrostic JOCUND BE YOUR HOURS OF PLAY, ONLY ROSES STREW YOUR WAY; YOUTH IS FLEET AND WILL NOT STAY: CARPE DIEM WHILE YOU MAY; ERE THE SKY BE DULL AND GRAY, MAKE HAY!"
154	22/02/1933	Greek	Janus	146	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
155	01/03/1933	'Cross-number IV'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
156	08/03/1933	'March'	Afrit	144	1	Clues concern the month of March.
157	15/03/1933	Latin	Janus	151	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
158	22/03/1933	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
159	29/03/1933	'Biblical'	Afrit	144	1	Clues refer to the Bible.
160	05/04/1933	'Cross-number V'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
161	12/04/1933	Greek	Janus	149	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
162	19/04/1933	'Sixes and Sevens'	Afrit	144	4	Lights are all 6- or 7-letter; clues are mainly incomplete quotations.
163	26/04/1933	'Slavery'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern slavery.
164	03/05/1933	French		144	1	Clues and lights are in French.
165	10/05/1933	'Hit or Miss'	Doggerel	56	4R	Grid is diamond-shaped.
166	17/05/1933	Latin	Janus	145	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
167	24/05/1933	Ariosto		211	1	Grid is Times-style; clues concern the literature of Ariosto.
168	31/05/1933	'Derby Day'	Doggerel	132	1	"Clues are in doggerel, and concern the Derby."
169	07/06/1933	'Cross-number VI'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
170	14/06/1933	Miscellaneous		169	1	Central 7 x 7 square is isolated; bars within it form a face in profile.
171	21/06/1933	Greek	Janus	145	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
172	28/06/1933	'Shady Spaces'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern summer; shaded squares spell 'SUMMER IS YCUMEN IN'.
173	05/07/1933	General	Doggerel	56	4	Grid is roughly diamond-shaped.
174	12/07/1933	'Biblical II'	Afrit	144	1	Clues refer to the Bible.
175	19/07/1933	Latin	Janus	143	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
176	26/07/1933	'Diagonal III'	Afrit	144	4	Diagonals spell QUEEN OF SHEBA and KING OF ISRAEL.
177	02/08/1933	'Double Thread'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are couplets.
178	09/08/1933	'Cross-number VII'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
179	16/08/1933	Greek	Janus	152	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
180	23/08/1933	'Pot-pourri'	Afrit	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations.
181	30/08/1933	French Crossword		144	1	Clues and lights are in French.
182	06/09/1933	'Elizabethan'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Queen Elizabeth.
183	13/09/1933	Latin	Janus	147	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
184	20/09/1933	'September'	Afrit	144	1	Clues concern the month of September.
185	27/09/1933	'Cross-number VIII'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
186	04/10/1933	'The Maze'	Doggerel	163	1	'NOW BURGEONS EVERY MAZE OF QUICK ABOUT THE FLOWERING SQUARES' reads around the border of the diagram until it turns in towards the centre.
187	11/10/1933	Greek	Janus	145	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
188	18/10/1933	'Gradatim II'	Afrit	144	1	"Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next."
189	25/10/1933	'Cross-number IX'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
190	01/11/1933	'Honours'	Doggerel	144	1	"Clues mainly concern kings and queens; first four across lights are ACE, KING, QUEEN, KNAVE."
191	08/11/1933	Latin 'Newspaper Pattern'	Janus	120	4R	Grid is Times-style; lights are entered in Latin.
192	15/11/1933	'November'	Janus	144	1	"Narrative poem concerning the month of November, with rhyming words omitted and also to be provided."
193	22/11/1933	'Dreams'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations concerning dreams.
194	29/11/1933	'Twenty-six'	Afrit	121	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. double DUTCH = IQNFP, a square MEAL = FSBKNRCN."
195	06/12/1933	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
196	13/12/1933	Greek	Janus	148	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
197	20/12/1933	'Christmas Tree'	Doggerel	122	1	"Grid is in the shape of a Christmas Tree, with down lights reading from branch to branch until a bar is reached."
198	27/12/1933	'Biblical III'	Afrit	144	1	Clues concern the Bible.
199	03/01/1934	'Crossnumber X'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
200	10/01/1934	Latin - Virgil	Janus	145	1	Clues are taken from works of Virgil; lights are entered in Latin.
201	17/01/1934	'Old Style'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are couplets.
202	24/01/1934	'Aquarius'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Aquarius.
203	31/01/1934	'Twenty-six Again'	Afrit	144	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. square LEG = ERWWSM, BRICKS without STRAW = AXNKIV."
204	07/02/1934	'Superstitions'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern superstitions.
205	14/02/1934	Greek	Janus	116	1R	Grid is Times-style; lights are entered in Greek.
206	21/02/1934	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
207	28/02/1934	'Pisces'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Pisces.
208	07/03/1934	'Birds'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern birds.
209	14/03/1934	Latin	Janus	150	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
210	21/03/1934	'William Morris'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern William Morris.
211	28/03/1934	'Aries'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Aries.
212	04/04/1934	'Cross-number XI'	Afrit	121	1	Numerical puzzle.
213	11/04/1934	'Beasts'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern beasts.
214	18/04/1934	'The Vulgar Tongue' (Diagonal)	Afrit	144	1	Narrative poem concerning pronunciation; diagonals spell BILLINGSGATE and KING'S ENGLISH.
215	25/04/1934	'Taurus'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Taurus.
216	02/05/1934	'Flowers'	Doggerel	195	1	"Clues concern flowers; four lights form 'PANSIES, LILIES, KINGCUPS, DAISIES, LET THEM LIVE UPON THEIR PRAISES'."
217	09/05/1934	Greek: New Testament		169	1	Clues concern the New Testament; lights are entered in Greek.
218	16/05/1934	'A Tale of Terror'	Doggerel	132	1	Narrative concerning a traveller's tale.
219	23/05/1934	'Gemini'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Gemini.
220	30/05/1934	'Two by Two'		144	1	Clues are to pairs of lights.
221	06/06/1934	'Biblical IV'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern the Bible.
222	13/06/1934	Latin	Janus	148	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
223	20/06/1934	'General'	Doggerel	132	1	Normal.
224	27/06/1934	'Cancer'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Cancer.
225	04/07/1934	'American Poets'	Doggerel	169	1	"Clues are mainly lines from poems by American writers, with lights the corresponding poets."
226	11/07/1934	Greek	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
227	18/07/1934	'Leo'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Leo.
228	25/07/1934	'Coleridge'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Coleridge.
229	01/08/1934	'Gradatim III'	Afrit	143	1	"Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next."
230	08/08/1934	Latin	Janus	149	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
231	15/08/1934	'Old Style'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are couplets.
232	22/08/1934	'Fruits'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern fruits.
233	29/08/1934	'Virgo'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Virgo.
234	05/09/1934	'Once Removed'		143	1	Lights are synonyms of synonyms of the clues.
235	12/09/1934	Greek	Janus	149	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
236	19/09/1934	'What's-a-Name'	Doggerel	156	1	Lights are mainly personages.
237	26/09/1934	'Libra'	Afrit	134	1R	Clues concern Libra.
238	03/10/1934	Music		156	1	Clues concern music; some lights refer to a musical extract printed above the grid.
239	10/10/1934	Latin	Janus	150	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
240	17/10/1934	'Twenty-six III'	Afrit	143	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. IN times PAST = EWFTNT, demi-semi-QUAVER = DKSYAK."
241	24/10/1934	Child's Play	"John H. Watson, M.D."	169	1	Clues concern Sherlock Holmes.
242	31/10/1934	'Scorpio'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Scorpio.
243	07/11/1934	'Who Said?'	Doggerel	144	1	"Clues are quotations, with the lights their authors."
244	14/11/1934	Greek	Janus	150	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
245	21/11/1934	'Sagittarius'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Sagittarius.
246	28/11/1934	'Wedding Bells'	Doggerel	144	1	"Clues, mainly incomplete quotations, concern weddings."
247	05/12/1934	'Word-Perfect'	Afrit	169	4	Clues are in doggerel; BLESSED DAMOZEL and BUDDING GENERAL appear in a diamond shape.
248	12/12/1934	Latin	Janus	147	1R	Lights are entered in Latin.
249	19/12/1934	'Capricornus'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Capricornus.
250	26/12/1934	'Lamb'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Charles Lamb.
251	02/01/1935	'Poets' Calendar'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations presented in groups corresponding to the twelve months of the year.
252	09/01/1935	'Word-Ladder'	Afrit	192	4	Lights are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder.
253	16/01/1935	Greek	Janus	149	4R	Lights are entered in Greek.
254	23/01/1935	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
255	30/01/1935	'Pluviose'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern rain; some lights form 'FIRST IT RAINED, AND THEN IT SNEW; THEN IT FRIZ, AND THEN IT THEW; AND THEN IT FRIZ AGAIN'."
256	06/02/1935	'Traffic Problems'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern traffic.
257	13/02/1935	Latin	Janus	157	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
258	20/02/1935	Miscellaneous	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
259	27/02/1935	'Ventose'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern wind; some lights form 'WELCOME, BLACK NORTHEASTER, O'ER THE GERMAN FOAM!'"
260	06/03/1935	'Biblical V'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern the Bible.
261	13/03/1935	Greek	Janus	148	2	Lights are entered in Greek.
262	20/03/1935	'Proverbs'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern proverbs; some lights form 'JEWELS FIVE WORDS LONG THAT ON THE STRETCHED FOREFINGER OF ALL TIME SPARKLE FOR EVER'.
263	27/03/1935	'Germinal'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern sowing; some lights form 'WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME ... SHALL NOT CEASE'."
264	03/04/1935	Child's Play	"John H. Watson, M.D."	169	1	Clues concern Sherlock Holmes stories.
265	10/04/1935	'A Cage'	Doggerel	144	1	Bars in columns are to be inserted; many clues are incomplete quotations from writers who were imprisoned.
266	17/04/1935	'Lent and Easter'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Lent and Easter.
267	24/04/1935	'Flor?al'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern flowers; some lights form 'THE LILY QUEEN, THE ROYAL ROSE, THE GILLIFLOWER, PRINCE OF THE WOOD, THE COURTIER TULIP, GAY IN CLOTHES, THE REGAL BUD'."
268	01/05/1935	'Jubilee'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern the Jubilee; some lights form 'YOU CANNOT CONTRIBUTE TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE'.
269	08/05/1935	Latin	Janus	152	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
270	15/05/1935	'Mrs. Hemans'	Doggerel	144	1	"Narrative concerning Mrs. Hemans, with some incomplete quotation clues."
271	22/05/1935	'Poet and Pestle'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern poets who had studied medicine.
272	29/05/1935	'Prairial'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern harvesting; some lights form 'TWO MEN WENT TO MAW, WENT TO MOW A MEADOW; TWO MEN ONE MAN AND HIS DOG WENT TO MOW A MEADOW'."
273	05/06/1935	'Whitsuntide'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern Whitsuntide.
274	12/06/1935	Latin	Janus	153	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
275	19/06/1935	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
276	26/06/1935	'Messidor'	Afrit	143	1	Lights are contained in three excerpts concerning harvest.
277	03/07/1935	'Old Age'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern old age; some lights form 'LET ME GROW LOVELY GROWING OLD'.
278	10/07/1935	'Biblical VI'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern the Bible.
279	17/07/1935	Latin	Janus	157	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
280	24/07/1935	'Old Gems'	Doggerel	156	1	Normal.
281	31/07/1935	'Fervidor'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern summer heat; 'SUN WHOSE RAYS ARE ALL ABLAZE WITH EVERLIVING GLORY WILL NOT DENY HIS MAJESTY: HE SCORNS TO TELL A STORY' may be read in the grid.
282	07/08/1935	'Friendship'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern friendship.
283	14/08/1935	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
284	21/08/1935	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	120	2	Normal.
285	28/08/1935	'Fructidor'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern fruit; some lights form 'FOR THE GAY FRUITS OF NATURE WHAT WISH CAN YOU FEEL WHEN COMPARED WITH THE FRUITS OF THE LOTTERY WHEEL?'
286	04/09/1935	'Once Removed II'		156	1	Some clues are synonyms of synonyms of the lights.
287	11/09/1935	'Twenty-six IV'	Afrit	143	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. THE Times NEWSPAPER = KCZUMXYAQRPL, FOURTH of FIRTH = AOKEA."
288	18/09/1935	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
289	25/09/1935	'Vend?miaire'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern wine; some lights form 'ON TURNPIKES OF WONDER WINE LEADS the MIND FORTH, STRAIGHT, SIDEWISE AND UPWARD, WEST, SOUTHWARD AND NORTH'."
290	02/10/1935	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
291	09/10/1935	'Music II'		143	1	Clues concern music; a quotation from the SCHICKSALSLIED is given.
292	16/10/1935	'39AC' [Riches]	Doggerel	156	1	"Clues concern riches; some lights form 'WHAT NEED HAVE WE OF INDIAN WEALTH, OR COMMERCE WITH OUR NEIGHBOURS? OUR CONSTITUTION IS IN HEALTH, AND RICHES CROWN OUR LABOURS'."
293	23/10/1935	'Cryptogram'	Afrit	156	1	"Lights are entered encoded; other lights then form LISTENER READERS ARE WARNED AGAINST THREE MEN, KNOWN RESPECTIVELY AS JANUS, DOGGEREL AND AFRIT, WHO PERSISTENTLY THWART THE EDITOR'S GENEROUS INTENTIONS TOWARDS CROSSWORD SOLVERS."
294	30/10/1935	'Brumaire'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern fog; some lights form 'WHEN THE TREBLE THICKNESS SPREAD SWALLOWS UP OUR NEXT AHEAD ... WHEN, HER PASSAGE UNDISCERNED, WE MUST TURN WHERE SHE HAS TURNED, HEAR THE CHANNEL FLEET AT SEA, LIBERA NOS, DOMINE!'"
295	06/11/1935	'Square the Circle'	Doggerel	144	1	The centre of the gris has been 'whited out'.
296	13/11/1935	Greek	Janus	155	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
297	20/11/1935	'Mark Twain'	Doggerel	158	2	Grid is Times-style; clues concern Mark Twain.
298	27/11/1935	'Frimaire'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern frost; some lights form 'KEEN AGAINST THE WALLS OF SAPPHIRE, THE GLEAMING TREEBOLLS, ICE-EMBOSSED, HOLD UP THEIR CHANDELIERS OF FROST'."
299	04/12/1935	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	143	1	Normal.
300	11/12/1935	Latin. Virgil	Janus	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
301	18/12/1935	'From the Xmas Post-Bag'	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative involving Christmas thank-you letters.
302	25/12/1935	'Nivose'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern snow; some lights form 'DECEMBER, HITHER WITH MUFFLED TREAD, AND GAZE ON THE YEAR FOR THE YEAR IS DEAD, AND OVER HIM CAST A WAN WHITE PALL. TAKE DOWN THE MATTOCK AND PLY THE SPADE, AND DEEP IN THE CLAY LET HIS CLAY BE LAID, AND SNOWFLAKES FALL AT HIS FUNERAL'."
303	01/01/1936	'Another Year'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern the New Year.
304	08/01/1936	'Surnames'	Afrit	143	1	"Narrative in the form of doggerel, with all words used being surnames giving a phonetic rendition."
305	15/01/1936	"'Why, Sirs, the Name's a Word'"	Doggerel	156	1	Most lights are eponyms.
306	22/01/1936	'Secret Codes'	Louis C.S. Mansfield			"Simple substitution cipher, which decoded reads INTRODUCING WORDS LIKE PYX INTO CRYPTS OCCASIONS ONLY SLIGHT DIFFICULTY. WOULD-BE CRYPTOGRAPHERS GENERALLY GUARD AGAINST SUCH OBVIOUS PITFALLS."
307	29/01/1936	'Words' Worth'	Afrit	143	1	Clues are incomplete quotations from Wordsworth; each light is the product of the letter values in the missing word.
308	05/02/1936	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
309	12/02/1936	'Valentine's Day'	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative concerning Valentine's day.
310	19/02/1936	Latin		156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
311	26/02/1936	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
312	04/03/1936	'Second-hand'	Afrit	143	1	Most clues are taken from the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs.
313	11/03/1936	'Moore'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations from Thomas Moore.
314	18/03/1936	Greek	Castor	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
315	25/03/1936	'Pickwick'	Doggerel	169	1	Clues concern Pickwick Papers.
316	01/04/1936	'1st April'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern fools.
317	08/04/1936	Latin	Pollux	134	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
318	15/04/1936	'Cryptogram II'	Afrit	156	1	A simple substitution cipher is used for certain words in clues; these lights are encoded on entry. The unclued lights form a report on an investigation.
319	22/04/1936	'Old Gems'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations.
320	29/04/1936	'Bees'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern bees.
321	06/05/1936	'General'	Doggerel	156	1	Normal.
322	13/05/1936	Greek	Pollux	148	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
323	20/05/1936	'Nasal Manoeuvres'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern noses.
324	27/05/1936	'Horsy'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern horses.
325	03/06/1936	'Biblical VII'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern the Bible.
326	10/06/1936	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
327	17/06/1936	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
328	24/06/1936	'Optical Allusions'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern eyes.
329	01/07/1936	'Cacographical'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; they and all lights involve misspellings.
330	08/07/1936	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
331	15/07/1936	'All Square'	Afrit	120	1	Numerical puzzle involving solutions of  a? - b? = b? - c? = x.
332	22/07/1936	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	132	1	Normal.
333	29/07/1936	'Hair-splits'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern hair.
334	05/08/1936	'Pets'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern pets.
335	12/08/1936	Latin	Pollux	150	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
336	19/08/1936	'Twenty-six V'	Afrit	143	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. half-WITTED = KQWJBO, TIME and AGAIN = BAJVS."
337	26/08/1936	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
338	02/09/1936	'Gradatim IV'	Afrit	143	1	"Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next."
339	09/09/1936	Greek	Pollux	153	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
340	16/09/1936	'Utopia'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern various utopias.
341	23/09/1936	'Diagonal V'	Afrit	144	4	Diagonals spell SOVIET RUSSIA and FASCIST ITALY.
342	30/09/1936	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	132	1	Normal.
343	07/10/1936	'Ecclestiastical'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern ecclesiastical matters.
344	14/10/1936	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
345	21/10/1936	'Pseudonyms'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern pseudonyms.
346	28/10/1936	'Bishop's Move'	Afrit	143	1	"Lights are entered diagonally, ending at the edge of the grid.Some lights form 'FROM EAST AND SOUTH THE HOLY CLAN OF BISHOPS GATHERED TO A MAN; TO SYNOD CALLED PAN-ANGLICAN IN FLOCKING CROWDS THEY CAME'."
347	04/11/1936	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
348	11/11/1936	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
349	18/11/1936	'W.S. Gilbert'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern writings of W.S. Gilbert.
350	25/11/1936	'The Knight and the Castle'	Afrit	143	1	"Certain knight's paths spell 'PRINCE, PRIDE MUST HAVE A FALL. WHAT IS THE WORTH OF ALL YOUR STATE'S SUPREME URBANITIES? BAD AT THE BEST'S THE GAM. WELL MIGHT THE SAGE EXCLAIM:- 'O VANITY OF VANITIES!''"
351	02/12/1936	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
352	09/12/1936	Latin	Pollux	175	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
353	16/12/1936	'The Daughter Tongue'	Afrit	143	1	Narrative in the form of a poem concerning Americanisms.
354	23/12/1936	'Christmas Bells'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern Christmas.
355	30/12/1936	'Cross-number XIII'	Afrit	117	4	"Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and area 13,860."
356	06/01/1937	'A Puzzle for 12th Day'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues all involve the number twelve.
357	13/01/1937	Greek	Pollux	149	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
358	20/01/1937	'Plum-stones'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues concern one or more of 'tinker, tailor, ...'."
359	27/01/1937	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
360	03/02/1937	'Cross-number XIV'	Afrit	117	4	Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and areas.
361	10/02/1937	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
362	17/02/1937	'Comic Poets'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern comic poets.
363	24/02/1937	'Tinker'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern tinkers.
364	03/03/1937	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
365	10/03/1937	Greek Crossword	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
366	17/03/1937	'To Any Reader'	Afrit	169	4	"Clues are literary, and are in doggerel."
367	24/03/1937	'Tailor'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern tailors.
368	31/03/1937	'Swinburne'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Swinburne.
369	07/04/1937	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
370	14/04/1937	Latin	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
371	21/04/1937	'Soldier'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern soldiers.
372	28/04/1937	'An Old Story'	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative concerning the mutiny on the Bounty.
373	05/05/1937	'Cryptogram III'	Afrit	143	1	Down lights are entered using a substitution cipher; unclued lights form MARSHAL FACTS FROM GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRIVATE INFORMATION FOR MAJOR SUCCESS.
374	12/05/1937	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
375	19/05/1937	'Sailor'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern sailors.
376	26/05/1937	'Clowns'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern clowns.
377	02/06/1937	'Printer's Devilry'	Afrit	143	1	Clues are PD (in some cases the omitted letters form not one word but two or three).
378	09/06/1937	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
379	16/06/1937	'Old Gems'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern literary references.
380	23/06/1937	Analysis of Unknown Solution	Proton	143	1	Clues concern chemistry.
381	30/06/1937	'Rich Man'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern rich men.
382	07/07/1937	'Re-Hash'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
383	14/07/1937	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
384	21/07/1937	'Dress'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern dress.
385	28/07/1937	'New Century'	Afrit	143	2	Clues are in doggerel.	
386	04/08/1937	'Ben Jonson'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Ben Jonson.	
387	11/08/1937	Latin	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.	
388	18/08/1937	'Holiday Task'	Afrit	143	1	Narrative in the form of a letter.	
389	25/08/1937	'Similes'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues involve similes.	
390	01/09/1937	'Biblical VIII'	Afrit	143	1	Clues concern the Bible.	
391	08/09/1937	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.	
392	15/09/1937	'Musical Composition'	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.	
393	22/09/1937	'What For?'	Afrit	143	1	"Clues are of the form '? for ___', e.g. 'M for ___' leads to SIZE, 'Z for ___' leads to EFFECT."	
394	29/09/1937	'Children's Hour'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern fairy tales and nursery rhymes.	
395	06/10/1937	Analysis of Unknown Solution. No. 2	Proton	143	1	Clues concern chemistry.	
396	13/10/1937	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.	
397	20/10/1937	'Playfair'	Afrit	169	1	"12 lights are entered Playfair-coded, with the code-square entered in the centre of the grid."	Whiskerando
398	27/10/1937					Literary competition.	
399	03/11/1937	'Cross-number XV'	Afrit	144	1	"Numerical puzzle, printed with an error which made it insoluble; corrected as no. 405."	
400	10/11/1937	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.	
401	17/11/1937	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
402	24/11/1937					Literary competition.
403	01/12/1937	'Gradatim V'	Afrit	143	1	"Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next."
404	08/12/1937	'Devilled Latin'	Pollux	169	1	"Clues are PD, and they and lights are in Latin."
405	15/12/1937	'Cross-number XV'	Afrit	144	1	Numerical puzzle; corrected form of no. 399.
406	22/12/1937	Dickens and Christmas				Literary competition.
407	29/12/1937	"'Time, Weather and News'"	Doggerel	144	1	"Clues concern time, weather or news."
408	05/01/1938	'Twenty-six VI'	Afrit	143	1	"Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. SAVED from WRECK = DPHXG, WOODEN WALLs = TXCHJFNAZL."
409	12/01/1938	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
410	19/01/1938	'Anagram Tangram'	Proton	143	1	Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
411	26/01/1938		Salijok			Literary competition.
412	02/02/1938	'Brevities'	Doggerel	144	1	"Some lights contain SIGNS or SYMBOLS, e.g. SUR+, REPRIM&."
413	09/02/1938	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
414	16/02/1938	'Diagonal VI'	Afrit	144	4	Clues are in doggerel; diagonals spell HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and DEVIL-MAY-CARE.
415	23/02/1938		Samoth			Literary competition.
416	02/03/1938	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
417	09/03/1938	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
418	16/03/1938	Current Topics	Proton	143	1	Clues concern radio.
419	23/03/1938	'Afrit'	Afrit	142	1	Grid forms a portrait of Afrit.
420	30/03/1938					Literary competition.
421	06/04/1938	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
422	13/04/1938	Latin. Horace	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin; clues concern works of Horace.
423	20/04/1938	'Diagonal VII'	Afrit	144	4	Diagonals spell HATCHET-FACED and LANTERN-JAWED.
424	27/04/1938					Literary competition.
425	04/05/1938	Music II	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.
426	11/05/1938	Greek. Sophocles	Pollux	143	1	Lights are entered in Greek; clues concern works of Sophocles.
427	18/05/1938	'On 8As' [Puns]	Doggerel	144	1	Narrative concerning puns.
428	25/05/1938					Literary competition.
429	02/06/1938	'Conventional'	Afrit	180	4	Grid has black squares.
430	09/06/1938	'Latin'	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
431	16/06/1938	Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 3	Proton	143	1	Clues concern chemistry.
432	23/06/1938	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
433	30/06/1938					Literary competition.
434	07/07/1938	'Amends'	Afrit	169	4	Normal.
435	14/07/1938	'Greek'	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
436	21/07/1938	'Chapter Headings'	Proton	143	1	Most clues are incomplete chapter headings.
437	28/07/1938	'Re-Hash II'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
438	04/08/1938	Names - I	Scorpio	143	1	"Lights are proper names, mostly clued by incomplete quotations."
439	11/08/1938	Latin	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
440	18/08/1938	Anagram Tangram II	Proton	143	1	Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
441	25/08/1938	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are in doggerel.
442	01/09/1938	Names II	Scorpio	143	1	"Lights are proper names, mostly clued by incomplete quotations."
443	08/09/1938	Greek	Pollux	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
444	15/09/1938	Music III	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.
445	22/09/1938	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
446	29/09/1938	'Bridge'	Scorpio	143	1	Clues concern bridge.
447	06/10/1938	Art I	Proton	143	1	Clues concern art.
448	13/10/1938	Latin Crossword	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
449	20/10/1938	'Head or Tail'	Doggerel	110	1	"Each answer is made up of two words, one of which is the light."
450	27/10/1938	'Geography'	Nomad	143	1	Clues concern geography.
451	03/11/1938	'Football'	Scorpio	143	1	Clues concern football.
452	10/11/1938	Greek - Euripides	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek; clues concern works of Euripides.
453	17/11/1938	'Suggestions'	Doggerel	144	1	Many clues include definitions of homophones of the lights.
454	24/11/1938	'Phraseological'	Afrit	196	2	Several lights are phrases.
455	01/12/1938	'What For?'	Proton	143	1	"Clues are of the form '? for ___', e.g. 'I for ___' leads to NOVELLO, 'X for ___' leads to EASTER."
456	08/12/1938	Latin. Virgil	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin; clues concern works of Virgil.
457	15/12/1938	Cross-number	Abdul	144	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form  (a,b,c)  where  a + c = 2b  and  a + b, a + c, b + c  are all squares."
458	22/12/1938	'Christmas Thoughts'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern Christmas.
459	29/12/1938	Football II	Scorpio	143	1	Clues concern football; some lights form 'SHOOTS AGAINST THE DUSKY POLE FACING TOWARD THE OTHER GOAL'.
460	05/01/1939	Alphabet	Proton	143	1	"26 lights begin with different letters; the others, clued by quotations, all begin with S."
461	12/01/1939	Graeco-Roman	Pollux	169	1	"Across lights are entered in Latin, down in Greek."
462	19/01/1939	'Burns'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern works of Burns.
463	26/01/1939	'Parson's Pleasure'	Afrit	225	1	Clues concern clerical matters.
464	02/02/1939	Question and Answer	Scorpio	143	1	"Lights are homophones of questions, to which the clues are answers; clues also contain definitions."
465	09/02/1939	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
466	16/02/1939	Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 4	Proton	143	1R	Clues concern chemistry.
467	23/02/1939	'A Literary Crossword'	Doggerel	160	2	Grid is Times-style; clues concern literary works.
468	02/03/1939	'Absent Friends'	Afrit	169	1	"Lights are words omitted from a poem, including 38 surnames; the remainder is presented with gaps closed and different line spacing."
469	09/03/1939	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
470	16/03/1939	Kaleidoscopic	Tiber	169	1	Normal.
471	23/03/1939	Football - III	Scorpio	120	2R	Certain squares are occupied by two teams of football players.
472	30/03/1939	Chapter Headings II	Proton	143	1	Most clues are incomplete chapter headings.
473	06/04/1939	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
474	13/04/1939	Latin	Pollux	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
475	20/04/1939	'Two minus One'	Afrit	169	1	"Each clue leads to three words, of which the third is contained in the juxtaposition of the first two; the light is the remainder."
476	27/04/1939	Bridge II	Scorpio	143	1	Clues concern bridge; unclued lights form 'HIS VERY SERVICEABLE SUIT OF BLACK WAS COURTLY ONCE'.
477	04/05/1939	Music - IV	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.
478	11/05/1939	Greek	Pollux	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
479	18/05/1939	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
480	25/05/1939	'Printer's Devilry' - II	Afrit	143	1	Clues are PD.
481	01/06/1939	'L.S.D.'	Scorpio	143	1	Clues concern money.	
482	08/06/1939	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.	
483	15/06/1939	'Astronomy'	Proton	196	1	Clues concern astronomy.	
484	22/06/1939	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.	
485	29/06/1939	'Acrostic'	Afrit	144	4	Initial letters of lights spell THE CROSSWORD SETTER (across) and THE DOG HAS HIS POINTS (down).	
486	06/07/1939	'Cricket'	Scorpio	143	1	"Clues concern cricket; unclued lights form 'THAT CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIVES - TEN OF THEM, ALL FROM DRIVES!'"	
487	13/07/1939	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.	
488	20/07/1939	'Cryptonym'	Proton	143	1R	"10 lights are encoded using the middle two rows of the grid, containing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order; each letter becomes that above or below it."	Hudibras
489	27/07/1939	'Re-Hash III'	Doggerel	132	1	Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.	
490	03/08/1939	'Cross-number XVI'	Afrit	169	1	Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and area.	
491	10/08/1939	Latin Poets at Brundisium	Pollux	156	1	"Narrative put together from quotations from Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil and Horace; lights are entered in Latin."	
492	17/08/1939	H.C.F.	Scorpio	144	1	Clues in each direction are given in alphabetical order of their lights; clues are also given to words which can be formed from the letters common to two lights of the same length.	
493	24/08/1939	'Bret Harte'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern works of Bret Harte.	
494	31/08/1939	Art - II	Proton	143	1R	Clues concern art.	
495	07/09/1939	Twisted Clues	Scorpio	144	1	"Clues have been anagrammatised word by word, one word sometimes becoming two or more."	
496	14/09/1939	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek.	
497	21/09/1939	'Extra Helpful'	Afrit	144	4	Normal.
498	28/09/1939	'Miscellaneous'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
499	05/10/1939	Golf	Proton	143	1	Clues concern golf.
500	12/10/1939	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
501	19/10/1939	Dead Letters	Scorpio	143	1	Each light loses a letter on entry; omitted letters exhaust the alphabet twice.
502	26/10/1939	Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 5	Proton	143	1	Clues concern chemistry.
503	02/11/1939	'Biblical IX'	Afrit	143	1	Solutions are words in the A.V. or R.V. text or margin.
504	09/11/1939	Geometry	Scorpio	144	1	Clues concern geometry.
505	16/11/1939	Miscellaneous	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
506	23/11/1939	'El-em-en-tary'	Jabberwock	117	1	"Each letter E in the lights is replaced by L, M or N (as given by the intersecting light)."
507	30/11/1939	Anglo-French	Proton	144	4R	"Across lights are in English, down in French."
508	07/12/1939	Greek	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Greek.
509	14/12/1939	Names III	Scorpio	144	1	"Most of the unchecked letters are arranged in twelve classes; the letters within each can be arranged to form a name, which is clued."
510	21/12/1939	'Acrostic II'	Afrit	144	4	Initial letters of lights spell PROPER GOOSE GOBBLES GOEBBELS PROPAGANDA.
511	28/12/1939	'Gambits'	Josephus	144	1	"Many clues involve quotations, taken from the opening sentences of literary works."
512	04/01/1940	Music V	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.
513	11/01/1940	General	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are couplets.
514	18/01/1940	H.C.F. II	Scorpio	143	1	Clues in each direction are given in alphabetical order of their lights; clues are also given to words which can be formed from the letters common to two lights of the same length.
515	25/01/1940	Latin	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
516	01/02/1940	Alphabet II	Proton	143	1	26 lights begin with different letters; the others all begin with A.
517	08/02/1940	Cross Number	Abdul	144	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  x? ? y? = pz?  for  p  prime and  < 100.
518	15/02/1940		Sirius	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
519	22/02/1940	'Old Gems'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
520	29/02/1940	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
521	07/03/1940	Blue Pencil	Scorpio	144	4R	Each clue has omitted letters which appear in the light.
522	14/03/1940		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
523	21/03/1940	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
524	28/03/1940	General	Sirius	120	1	Normal.
525	04/04/1940	Architecture	Proton	134	1R	Clues concern architecture.
526	11/04/1940		Sirius	154	2	Grid is Times-style.
527	18/04/1940	'Inns'	Doggerel	143	1	Clues concern inns.
528	25/04/1940		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
529	02/05/1940	'Word-Ladder II'	Afrit	196	4	"Lights are rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder; some, and the other rungs, are clued."
530	09/05/1940		Sirius	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
531	16/05/1940	Aviation	Proton	143	1	Clues concern aviation.
532	23/05/1940		Sirius	156	1	Normal.
533	30/05/1940	'Thomas Hardy'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues refer to novels of Thomas Hardy.
534	06/06/1940		Sirius	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
535	13/06/1940	'Slang and the Like'	Jabberwock	143	1	Clues concern slang.
536	20/06/1940		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
537	27/06/1940	Cross-number	Algy	117	4	Numerical puzzle with lights forming Pythagorean triples.
538	04/07/1940	A Little Bit of Nonsense	Sirius	164	2	Narrative; grid is Times-style.
539	11/07/1940	'Catullus'	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern poems of Catullus.
540	18/07/1940		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
541	25/07/1940	'Re-Hash IV'	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
542	01/08/1940		Sirius	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
543	08/08/1940	Mishmash	Tracer	169	1R	Normal.
544	15/08/1940		Sirius	120	1	Normal.
545	22/08/1940	Checking Up	Scorpio	144	1	Normal with no unchecked letters.
546	29/08/1940	A Nursery Flavour	Sirius	162	1R	Grid is Times-style; clues relate to nursery rhymes.
547	05/09/1940	'Double Acrostic'	Afrit	144	4	"Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND' and ENGLAND, HOME AND BEAUTY respectively."
548	12/09/1940	Colourful	Sirius	140	1	All across lights are words or phrases prefaced by colours.
549	19/09/1940	Chess	Proton	128	1	"Central 8 x 8 square is shaded as a chess-board, with 16 pieces acting as blocked squares; clues are all thematic."
550	26/09/1940		Sirius	167	2	Grid is Times-style.
551	03/10/1940	Latin Word-Ladder	Pollux	196	4	"Lights are rungs of a 6-letter Latin word-ladder; some, and the other rungs, are clued."
552	10/10/1940		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
553	17/10/1940	'Means Test'	Jabberwock	143	1	"Clues ending in question-marks are misdefinitions of the lights, e.g. 'Remove from bed?' leads to DEBUNK."
554	24/10/1940		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
555	31/10/1940	Anglo-French 2	Proton	144	4R	"Across lights are in English, down in French."
556	07/11/1940		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
557	14/11/1940	Mishmash	Tracer	169	1R	Normal; main diagonals are also clued.
558	21/11/1940		Sirius	143	1	Normal.
559	28/11/1940	'Spitfire and Hurricane'	Jabberwock	169	1	Most clues concern dragons and winds.
560	05/12/1940		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
561	12/12/1940	'Printer's Devilry III'	Afrit	144	4	Clues are PD.
562	19/12/1940	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
563	26/12/1940		Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
564	02/01/1941		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
565	09/01/1941	'General'	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
566	16/01/1941		Sirius	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
567	23/01/1941	Triple Entente 1	Proton	144	1	"NW-SE diagonals are all words, and are clued."
568	30/01/1941		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
569	06/02/1941		Jabberwock	180	1	Normal.
570	13/02/1941		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
571	20/02/1941	Rhymeless	Scorpio	144	4R	Clues are couplets from which the last word has been removed.
572	27/02/1941		Sirius	130	1	Normal.
573	06/03/1941	Brevities II	Doggerel	144	1	"Some lights contain SIGNS or SYMBOLS, e.g. TER-, NON+."
574	13/03/1941		Sirius	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
575	20/03/1941	A Rainy Theme	Joxon	156	1	Several lights are CATs or DOGs.
576	27/03/1941		Sirius	140	1	Normal.
577	03/04/1941	Alphabet III	Proton	144	1	26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
578	10/04/1941		Sirius	158	2	Grid is Times-style.
579	17/04/1941	Latin	Pollux	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
580	24/04/1941	Geographical	Sirius	126	1	Several lights are place-names.
581	01/05/1941	Today	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern May Day.
582	08/05/1941		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
583	15/05/1941	Engineering?	Tracer	169	1R	Some clues concern engineering.
584	22/05/1941	Services	Sirius	132	1	Normal.
585	29/05/1941	Question and Answer - II	Scorpio	143	1	"Lights are homophones of questions, to which the clues are answers; clues also contain definitions."
586	05/06/1941		Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
587	12/06/1941	Pisces	Proton	143	1	Several lights are names of fish.
588	19/06/1941	June	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern the month of June.
589	26/06/1941	Rhymeless II	Scorpio	144	4R	Clues are couplets from which the last word has been removed.
590	03/07/1941		Sirius	135	1	Normal.
591	10/07/1941	Latin	Castor	169	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
592	17/07/1941	A Burning Question	Joxon	143	1	Several clues concern FIRE.
593	24/07/1941	"Analysis of Unknown Solution, No. 6"	Proton	143	1R	Clues concern chemistry.
594	31/07/1941	General	Doggerel	144	1	Normal.
595	07/08/1941	Plain	Joxon	143	1	Several lights are anagrams of PLAIN.
596	14/08/1941	General	Sirius	169	4R	Grid is Times-style.
597	21/08/1941	Question and Answer III	Scorpio	144	1	"Lights are omitted from lines of verse, which form rhyming couplets of questions and answers."
598	28/08/1941	Clericlews	Proton	196	1	Several lights are omitted from five clerihews.
599	04/09/1941	Dvor?k Centenary	Kick	169	1	Clues concern Dvor?k.
600	11/09/1941	Creators and Creatures	Jabberwock	172	4	18 6-letter unclued lights are the names of authors and characters from their works.
601	18/09/1941	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
602	25/09/1941	Nursery Rhymes	Doggerel	156	1	Clues concern nursery rhymes.
603	02/10/1941	A Bit Fishy	Joxon	143	1	Several lights are names of fish.
604	09/10/1941	General	Sirius	168	1R	Grid is Times-style.
605	16/10/1941	Triple Entente II	Proton	144	1	"NW-SE diagonals are all words, and are clued."
606	23/10/1941	Transquotations	Scorpio	144	4R	"Each clue is a quotation, in which one word (the light) has been replaced by a word from one of the other quotations."
607	30/10/1941	Menagerie	Jabberwock	169	1	"26 unclued lights are 'names' of animals in real life, art etc.; their initials exhaust the alphabet."
608	06/11/1941	A Little Rugger	Sirius	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
609	13/11/1941	A Literary Crossword	Doggerel	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
610	20/11/1941	Greek	Pollux	169	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
611	27/11/1941	"Rare (and, I Hope, Refreshing!)"	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
612	04/12/1941	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
613	11/12/1941	Alphabet IV	Proton	143	1	26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
614	18/12/1941	Mishmash	Tracer	130	1	Normal.
615	25/12/1941	One Hundred Years Ago	Lingo	130	1	Several clues are incomplete quotations from works written or first published in 1841.
616	01/01/1942	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
617	08/01/1942	Theme I	Proton	143	1	"Each across light contains 3 consecutive letters in alphabetical order, e.g. CALMNESS."
618	15/01/1942	Lisped in Numbers	Scorpio	144	4R	Narrative in verse.
619	22/01/1942	Mathematical	Algy	143	1	Clues concern mathematics.
620	29/01/1942	General	Sirius	159	2	Grid is Times-style.
621	05/02/1942	Freedom	Doggerel	156	1	"Clues concern freedom; unclued lights form 'WE MUST BE FREE OR DIE, WHO SPEAK THE TONGUE THAT SHAKESPEARE SPAKE; THE FAITH AND MORALS HOLD WHICH MILTON HELD'."
622	12/02/1942	Aeronautical	Kick	169	1	Clues concern aeroplanes.
623	19/02/1942	Theme II	Proton	144	1	Across lights are pairs of words which can be spoonerised; clues define both halves in each version.
624	26/02/1942	General	Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
625	05/03/1942	A Bit Fishy (2)	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern fish.
626	12/03/1942	White Knight's Move	Jabberwock	143	1	Quotation clues lead to words which define the lights.
627	19/03/1942	Latin	Castor	144	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
628	26/03/1942	General	Sirius	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
629	02/04/1942	Spring	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern spring.
630	09/04/1942	221B Revisited	Peter Quince	140	1	Italicised clues refer to Sherlock Holmes stories.
631	16/04/1942	The Journey	Systemat	76	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning a journey.
632	23/04/1942	Food for Thought	Doggerel	144	1	Clues concern food.
633	30/04/1942	General	Sirius	117	1	Normal.
634	07/05/1942	Smoking Concert	Proton	143	1	Clues concern smoking.
635	14/05/1942	Puzzled Puzzlers	Scorpio	144	4R	Several lights are anagrams of setters.
636	21/05/1942	Two to One Bar One	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
637	28/05/1942	General	Sirius	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
638	04/06/1942	Gambits II	Josephus	132	1	"Many clues involve quotations, taken from the opening sentences of literary works."
639	11/06/1942	Dickens	Dexter	116	4R	Grid is Times-style; clues concern Dickens.
640	18/06/1942	Music VI	Proton	143	1	Clues concern music.
641	25/06/1942	General	Sirius	121	1	Normal.
642	02/07/1942	Differences	Tracer	143	1	"Each clue defines two words; the light is an anagram of the difference between them. Unclued lights form 'COME, SIR, ARISE, AWAY! I'LL TEACH YOU DIFFERENCES'."
643	09/07/1942	Summer	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern summer.
644	16/07/1942	Loose Couplings	Scorpio	144	4R	Normal.
645	23/07/1942	'Of Cabbages - and Kings'	Jabberwock	156	1	Clues quote the song of the Walrus and the Carpenter.
646	30/07/1942	General	Sirius	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
647	06/08/1942	Lettergram I	Proton	143	1	"Across lights may run from the end of one row to the beginning of the next; ignoring bars, they read as an excerpt from a business letter."
648	13/08/1942	Proverbial	Jabberwock	134	1R	Many clues refer to proverbs.
649	20/08/1942	Latin	Pollux	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
650	27/08/1942	General	Sirius	117	1	Normal.
651	03/09/1942	The Office	Systemat	76	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning an office.
652	10/09/1942	Gilbert and Sullivan	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
653	17/09/1942	Logogriph	Tracer	195	1	Central row contains DUELIST and CHAMFRON; all other lights are made up of these letters.
654	24/09/1942	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
655	01/10/1942	Tennyson	Doggerel	156	2	Grid is Times-style; clues refer to works of Tennyson (died 06/10/1892).
656	08/10/1942	Soulless	Jim	132	1	All except four lights lose ST on entry.
657	15/10/1942	Jigsaw	Jabberwock	112	2	Seven clued 7-letter lights each divide into a 3- and a 4-letter word; these are entered elsewhere.
658	22/10/1942	Theme III	Proton	143	1	Each across light contains 3 consecutive vowels.
659	29/10/1942	General	Sirius	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
660	05/11/1942	Numerical	Kryptos	132	1	"Each clue gives the positions of the letters of the light in alphabetical order, e.g. 5-1-9-2-12-3-8-11-6-10-4-7 leads to CARAVANSERAI."
661	12/11/1942	Anagrammatical	Tracer	157	4R	Each light is an anagram of the answer to the clue.
662	19/11/1942	Dead Letters I	Scorpio	144	4R	Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.
663	26/11/1942	General	Sirius	117	1	Normal.
664	03/12/1942	Greek Word-Ladder	Pollux	196	4	Lights are rungs of a 6-letter Greek word-ladder.
665	10/12/1942	The Little Farm	Systemat	87	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning a farm.
666	17/12/1942	The Unnecessary Letter	Algy	144	1	Most lights lose at least one Z on entry.
667	24/12/1942	Inexcusable Ignorance	Peter Quince	110	1	All clues and lights are taken from the A.V. of the Bible.
668	31/12/1942	General	Sirius	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
669	07/01/1943	Lays of the Laureate	Lingo	143	1	Clues are incomplete quotations from poems written by Poets Laureate.
670	14/01/1943	Miscellaneous	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
671	21/01/1943	Theme IV	Proton	140	2R	Final letters of across lights exhaust the alphabet.
672	28/01/1943	General	Sirius	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
673	04/02/1943	Zoo	Redling	144	1	Most clues concern animals.
674	11/02/1943	A Mixed Bag	Nimrod	117	1	Normal.
675	18/02/1943	Analogonyms	Tesremos	180	1	"Across lights are formed by analogy, e.g. SARUM = SALISBURY, so ALARUM = ALALISBURY."
676	25/02/1943	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
677	04/03/1943	Abbrevanagram	Potomac	120	1	Lights are acronymic anagrams of the answers.
678	11/03/1943	Artists	Jim	126	1	Clues concern artists.
679	18/03/1943	Sums	Tracer	182	1	"Each clue defines two or more words, a composite anagram of which is the light; unclued lights form 'SUCH SUM OR SUMS AS ARE EXPRESSED IN THE CONDITION'."
680	25/03/1943	General	Sirius	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
681	01/04/1943	Remus Rebus	Blackrock	143	1	Clues are taken from works of Uncle Remus.
682	08/04/1943	A Pretty Kettle of Fish	Joxon	143	1	Lights are names of fish.
683	15/04/1943	Towns	Babs	196	1	"Clues framed as questions have towns as answers, e.g. 'How did the concert go?' leads to SINGAPORE."
684	22/04/1943	Puzzled Puzzlers	Scorpio	144	4R	8 perimeter words together form an anagram of 8 setters.
685	29/04/1943	General	Sirius	158	2	Grid is Times-style.
686	06/05/1943	Word Sums I	Proton	144	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
687	13/05/1943	Chessboard	Tesremos	64	1	Grid is a chessboard; there are no pawns. Each piece has two lights entered on two double moves.
688	20/05/1943	A Few Quotations	Sirius	160	4	Grid is Times-style; some clues are incomplete quotations.
689	27/05/1943	Swan-Song	Doggerel	144	1	Clues are paired to form couplets.
690	03/06/1943	Unbelievable Tale	Tracer	196	2R	Narrative involving EDWIN DROOD; diagonals spell DO NOT BELIEVE IT and LIST A BRIEF TALE.
691	10/06/1943	Ten Characters in Search of their Authors	Babs	169	1	10 characters and authors are unclued.
692	17/06/1943	Cryptogram	Cocos	132	1	All clues are encoded by adding COCOSCOCOS...
693	24/06/1943	General	Sirius	117	1	Normal.
694	01/07/1943	10A 11 [Mad Mathesis]	Tracer	169	1	Diagonals spell IMPONDERABLES and ASTARTE/OSIRIS; unclued lights form 'SEE MYSTERY TO MATHEMATICS FLY! IN VAIN!'
695	08/07/1943	Alphabet 5	Proton	143	1	26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
696	15/07/1943	Latin: Poets in Tunisia	Pollux	169	1	"Narrative as Latin dialogue between Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid, each quoting from one of the others' works."
697	22/07/1943	General	Sirius	120	1	Normal.
698	29/07/1943	Crossnumber: 121 Base	Abdul	144	1	Numerical puzzle concerning 24 triangles with integral sides and areas.
699	05/08/1943	Franco-British Medley	Pangloss	120	1	"Clues are in English, lights in French."
700	12/08/1943	Topped and Tailed	Babs	144	1	"13 clues are italicised; their lights are anagrams of the answers with first and last letters removed, these exhausting the alphabet."
701	19/08/1943	Exempli Gratia	Peter Quince	132	1	Many lights are figures of speech clued by examples.
702	26/08/1943	General	Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
703	02/09/1943	Diagonal	Cocos	144	1R	Lights are entered diagonally.
704	09/09/1943	Anagram Tangram III	Proton	143	1	Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
705	16/09/1943	Getting Poets Down	Scorpio	132	1	Across clues are incomplete quotations from poetry; down lights are the poets.
706	23/09/1943	Clothes Ration	Jabberwock	121	1	Clues concern clothes.
707	30/09/1943	General	Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
708	07/10/1943	Wheels within Wheels	Tracer	156	1	Across lights are synonyms of LIVE or DIE; unclued lights form 'THOUGH TO ITSELF IT ONLY LIVE AND DIE'.
709	14/10/1943	Untied Anagrams	Babs	144	1	Each italicised clue leads to a word ending in -TY; this suffix is to be removed and an anagram of the remainder entered.
710	21/10/1943	Largely Nominal	Jabberwock	144	1	Quotation clues lead to proper nouns appearing somewhere in the work cited.
711	28/10/1943	General	Sirius	117	1	Normal.
712	04/11/1943	The 2 5 [Compleat Listener]	Proton	143	1	Narrative concerning the COMPLEAT LISTENER.
713	11/11/1943	Fifth Calumny	Jim	132	1	"17 clues are anagrams of coded versions of the lights, the encoding being by adding a different letter in each case."
714	18/11/1943	Overlapping	Scorpio	144	1	Grid is blank; lights within a row or column overlap.
715	25/11/1943	General	Sirius	156	4	Grid is Times-style.
716	02/12/1943	Doublets	Tesremos	196	4	Each clue is used twice.
717	09/12/1943	Olla Podrida	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
718	16/12/1943	Latin	Castor	144	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
719	23/12/1943	Nuts to Crack	Tracer	169	1	"Across clues are of the form GEWD (= WINGED), leading to ALATE."
720	30/12/1943	General	Sirius	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
721	06/01/1944	Measure for Measure	Potomac	121	1	"Across lights are all measures, clued by the sums of their component letters, treated as Roman numerals."
722	13/01/1944	Knight's Move	Cocos	144	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
723	20/01/1944	Anglo-French	Proton	144	4R	"Across lights are in English, down in French."
724	27/01/1944	General	Sirius	154	1	"Unclued lights form 'BRING ME MY BOW OF BURNING GOLD, ... ARROWS OF DESIRE, ... SPEAR, ... CHARIOT OF FIRE ... MENTAL FIGHT ... SWORD'"
725	03/02/1944	Anagramania	Pangloss	120	1	Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
726	10/02/1944	Signed Lines	Lingo	143	1	"Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are the words or parts thereof omitted, forming anagrams of the poets' names."
727	17/02/1944	Dead Letters II	Scorpio	144	4R	Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.
728	24/02/1944	General	Sirius	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
729	02/03/1944	Jig-Shaw	Potomac	143	1	Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell 'IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS' - G.B.S.
730	09/03/1944	Olla Podrida II	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
731	16/03/1944	Venture atte Bowe	Dugo?t	176	4	Grid is Times-style; clues and lights are in French.
732	23/03/1944	Hexads	Tracer	196	4	"All lights are 6-letter; 16 have two identical halves (e.g. MOTMOT), and clues refer only to one half."
733	30/03/1944	General	Jim	144	1	Normal.
734	06/04/1944	Knight's Move II	Cocos	144	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
735	13/04/1944	Puzzled Puzzlers	Scorpio	144	4R	Unclued lights form 'THOU HAST FRIGHTED THE WORD OUT OF HIS RIGHT SENSE SO FORCIBLE IS THY WIT'.
736	20/04/1944	Square-sided Triangles	Abdul	144	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning pairs of triangles with integral sides and areas, two of whose sides are perfect squares."
737	27/04/1944	General	Sirius	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
738	04/05/1944	A Pretty Kettle of Fish	Joxon	121	1	Clues concern angling.
739	11/05/1944	Pig in a Poke	Babs	120	1	Across lights are entered in the manner of FORTINBRAS becoming BRAFORTS.
740	18/05/1944	Nouns for Towns	Tracer	169	1R	"18 clues lead to nouns, the first half of which are to be changed to form towns, e.g. TUBEROSE leads to MONTROSE."
741	25/05/1944	Kipling	Sirius	156	2	Clues refer to works of Kipling.
742	01/06/1944	Lovers' ABC	Tesremos	169	1	"Across lights are 23 adjectives, beginning with different letters of the alphabet, used in a passage from Don Quixote to describe what a lover should be."
743	08/06/1944	Lettergram II	Proton	143	1	"Across lights may run from the end of one row to the beginning of the next; ignoring bars, they read as an excerpt from a legal document."
744	15/06/1944	Common Factor	Rex	132	1	"Clues are linked in couplets; the first three or more letters of the first answer of each pair appear at the beginning of the second, and are omitted in one or other position when entered."
745	22/06/1944	Midsummer Night's Theme	Blackrock	143	1	Clues refer to fairies.
746	29/06/1944	General	Sirius	156	1	Normal.
747	06/07/1944	Colourless	Babs	132	1	"Answers are words or phrases whose first part is a colour, removed on entry."
748	13/07/1944	Elemental	Tracer	225	1	"Lights may each be split into two or more words; clues define these in order. Unclued lights form 'FIRST UNDO THIS TANGLED THREAD, AND WIND IT TO A CLUE'."
749	20/07/1944	G.B.S.	Jabberwock	225	1	Clues refer to Shavian plays.
750	27/07/1944	General	Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
751	03/08/1944	Greek	Castor	144	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.
752	10/08/1944	Extensive and Peculiar	Peter Quince	120	1	Clues refer to the Pickwick Papers.
753	17/08/1944	Word Sums 2	Proton	144	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
754	24/08/1944	Knight's Move III	Cocos	144	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
755	31/08/1944	General	Sirius	140	1	Normal.
756	07/09/1944	Code	Scorpio	140	1	"24 clues lead to answers of the form ___IS___, e.g. PISTOL, AISLE; these give the code used for the remaining clues."
757	14/09/1944	Meet Dr. Romelle	Pangloss	120	1	Narrative concerning a murder.
758	21/09/1944	Spellbound	Marcus	169	1	Clues are one-word definitions of (approximate) homonyms of the lights.
759	28/09/1944	General	Sirius	167	2	Grid is Times-style.
760	05/10/1944	Gilbert and Sullivan (II)	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
761	12/10/1944	Unbelievable Tale II	Tracer	221	2R	Narrative involving ANTONY and CLEOPATRA; diagonals spell 'A POOR RELATION' and 'FORGIVE ME THAT'.
762	19/10/1944	Azoonyms	Tesremos	168	2	Across answers lose animals to form the lights.
763	26/10/1944	General	Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
764	02/11/1944	Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 7	Proton	144	1R	Clues concern chemistry.
765	09/11/1944	'I Lisp'd in Numbers'	Scorpio	144	4R	Clues are the products of the numerical values of the letters in the lights.
766	16/11/1944	Knight's Move IV	Cocos	144	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
767	23/11/1944	Hara-Kiri	Rex	130	1	Each clue defines two words; the first is removed from the second to form the light.
768	30/11/1944	General	Sirius	150	1	Normal.
769	07/12/1944	Literary Curiosity	Babs	156	1	Narrative poem.
770	14/12/1944	Aircraft Recognition	Scorpio	168	1	"Most clues are incomplete quotations, concerning names of aircraft; unclued lights form 'LET BRISKER YOUTHS THEIR ACTIVE NERVES PREPARE, FIT THEIR LIGHT SILKEN WINGS AND SKIM THE BUXOM AIR'."
771	21/12/1944	Tied in Knots	Nimrod	117	1	A spiral reads 'AT CHRISTMAS I NO MORE DESIRE A ROSE THAN WISH A SNOW IN MAY'S NEW-FANGLED MIRTH'.
772	28/12/1944	General	Sirius	156	4R	Grid is Times-style.
773	04/01/1945	Jig-Shaw - II	Potomac	168	1	Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION - STRAND.
774	11/01/1945	Trilemma	Nicholas	169	1	Each clue defines two anagrams of the light.
775	18/01/1945	Asymbolic	Cocos	144	4R	"Each answer begins with a different chemical element, which is removed to form the light."
776	25/01/1945	General	Sirius	143	1	Normal.
777	01/02/1945	Semi-Pseudonyms	Lingo	196	1	Most lights are pseudonyms and real surnames of authors.
778	08/02/1945	Olla Podrida (III)	Joxon	143	1	Normal.
779	15/02/1945	Chop and Change	Jim	143	1	"All clues have been divided in two, with the second half appearing elsewhere."
780	22/02/1945	General	Sirius	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
781	01/03/1945	Algebra	Dixie	81	1	Numerical puzzle.
782	08/03/1945	"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"	Tesremos	196	4	"Lights are grouped in threes, one being animal, one vegetable and one mineral. Clues are to homophones of the three run together, e.g. 'I Susan, a lover of ale, regret liquor burning' leads to ""I, beery Sue, ruw booze afire"" which gives IBERIS, URUBU, SAPPHIRE."
783	15/03/1945	Mishmash	Tracer	169	1R	Top left-hand corner of grid is almost a 7-letter word square.
784	22/03/1945	The Knights Move	Cocos	169	1	Down lights are normal; others travel by knight's moves.
785	29/03/1945	General	Sirius	164	2	Grid is Times-style.	
786	05/04/1945	Cryptonym 2	Proton	143	1	"Perimeter lights are encoded using the middle two rows of the grid, containing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order; each letter becomes that above or below it."	Palmerston
787	12/04/1945	This and That	Marcus	156	1	"15 clues lead to pairs of lights, one entered across and one down so that they intersect, in locations to be discovered."	
788	19/04/1945	Dead Letters III	Scorpio	144	4R	Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.	
789	26/04/1945	General	Sirius	135	1	Normal.	
790	03/05/1945	Plus-Words	Potomac	132	1	"Each answer must have a letter inserted to form the light (another word); the missing letter appears in the clue in the required position, e.g. 'Mix up a rich mate' leads to RHEMATIC which becomes RHEUMATIC."	
791	10/05/1945	Victory Acrostic	Tesremos	144	2	Initial letters of lights spell 'WITH FREEDOM'S LION-BANNER BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES'.	
792	17/05/1945	The Anagrammatist's Library	Lingo	169	1	Clues are anagrams of titles and authors; lights are significant words from the titles.	
793	24/05/1945	Prime-itive	Abdul	144	1	Numerical puzzle concerning arithmetic progressions of primes.	
794	31/05/1945	General	Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.	
795	07/06/1945	In Your Garden	Pangloss	121	1	Narrative concerning plants.	
796	14/06/1945	16-42 17-39 [A Motley Mixture]	Tracer	169	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a poem.	
797	21/06/1945	Questionnaire	Proton	143	1	Clues are in the form of questions.	
798	28/06/1945	General	Sirius	156	1	Normal.	
799	05/07/1945	Stichomuthia	Marcus	132	1	"Lights may each be split into two or more words; each is clued by a line originally containing these words, in which they have been replaced by a synonym of the light."	
800	12/07/1945	Poetic Numbers	Scorpio	156	1	Each clue (often a fragment of verse) contains a number which is represented by  x  and which gives the position of the light.	
801	19/07/1945	The Prisoner's Warning	Tesremos	169	4	Central 5 x 5 square of grid reads ENEMY MINES UNDER NORTH ORIEL.
802	26/07/1945	General	Sirius	162	1	Grid is Times-style.
803	02/08/1945	Theme V	Proton	156	1	Grid is Times-style; across lights are all anagrams of authors.
804	09/08/1945	Arquairium	Jabberwock	137	4	Many lights are names of living creatures.
805	16/08/1945	First Names	Redling	120	1	Clues lead to literary surnames; lights are corresponding first names.
806	23/08/1945	Return of Peace	Scorpio	144	4R	Narrative celebrating end of war.
807	30/08/1945	General	Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
808	06/09/1945	Last Words	Potomac	156	1	Many lights are last words of poems.
809	13/09/1945	Gilbert and Sullivan (III)	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
810	20/09/1945	Once Removed	Tracer	169	1	Central row and column read 'TOO FAR REMOVED' and 'SO NEAR RELATED'; most clues are one-word synonyms of synonyms of the lights (using different meanings).
811	27/09/1945	General	Sirius	130	1	Normal.
812	04/10/1945	15 Down and 20 Across [Babs' Ballad]	Babs	169	1	Some lights are omitted from a verse about Babs' pseudonym.
813	11/10/1945	Aphytonyms	Tesremos	169	2	Each across light loses something of vegetable nature on entry.
814	18/10/1945	Verbarium I	Proton	156	1	"Down lights, all 4-letter, are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a passage of verse beginning SING A SONG OF CROSSWORDS, SOLVERS OFT REGALED."
815	25/10/1945	General	Sirius	168	4	Grid is Times-style.
816	01/11/1945	Latin	Pollux	169	1	"Lights are entered in Latin; some form 'TE, GERMANIA, MAGNI TRISTE CAPUT PEDIBUS SUPPOSUISSE IRATI'."
817	08/11/1945	A Letter	Retlaw	169	1	Narrative in epistolatory form.	
818	15/11/1945	Knight's Move V	Cocos	156	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.	
819	22/11/1945	Partial Eclipse	Babs	110	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters ECL in some order.	
820	29/11/1945	General	Sirius	150	1	Normal.	
821	06/12/1945	Elemental II	Tracer	216	4	Lights may each be split into two or more words; clues define these in order.	
822	13/12/1945	'For the Subtile Man'	Tyke	74	2	"Lights are polynomials in  x, with one term per square."	
823	20/12/1945	Square Deal	B.O.D.	195	1	"Central 5 x 5 square (almost isolated) is a Playfair codesquare; most lights are en clair with coded clues, while a few are coded and have en clair clues."	Countryside
824	27/12/1945	General	Sirius	164	4R	Grid is Times-style.	
825	03/01/1946	Winter	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to winter (many being quotations); some lights are jumbled.	
826	10/01/1946	Spellbound II	Marcus	156	1	Clues are one-word definitions of (approximate) homonyms of the lights.	
827	17/01/1946	Jig-Shaw III	Potomac	121	1	Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell LINA SZCZEPANOWSKA and EUGENE MARCHBANKS.	
828	24/01/1946	Double Acrostic I	Tesremos	156	4	Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'THUS IN THE STILLY NIGHT' and 'BY THE NINE GODS HE SWORE' respectively.	
829	31/01/1946	General	Sirius	166	2	Grid is Times-style.	
830	07/02/1946	Anagrammatist's Anthology	Lingo	196	1	Clues are anagrams of titles and authors; lights are significant words from the titles.	
831	14/02/1946	Pandore as Bocks	Proton	143	1	"Across clues lead to words which, followed by AS and the light, form homophones of phrases, e.g. DULY leads to SEIZER, TIGHT leads to OATES."	
832	21/02/1946	Hue and Cry	Marcus	130	1	Grid is blank; bars when inserted form HI THE THIEF FLIETH.	
833	28/02/1946	General	Sirius	154	1	Normal.
834	07/03/1946	Literal Mathematics	Scorpio	195	1	Each letter is entered as its numerical residue modulo 5.
835	14/03/1946	Knight's Move VI	Cocos	156	1	"26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas."
836	21/03/1946	8 41 [The Mill]	Babs	180	1	Narrative; bar pattern resembles a windmill.
837	28/03/1946	General	Sirius	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
838	04/04/1946	Word-Ladder	Tracer	140	4R	Lights are unclued rungs of three word-ladders.
839	11/04/1946	Purely Nominal	Joxon	143	1	"Lights are names, mainly from literature."
840	18/04/1946	Double-Barrelled	Tesremos	168	1	Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row.
841	25/04/1946	General	Sirius	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
842	02/05/1946	Spring Balance	B.O.D.	144	1	"Narrative in the form of a poem about spring; the first two lines, to be traced in the grid, are 'DELIGHT IT IS IN YOUTH AND MAY TO SEE THE SUN ARISE'."
843	09/05/1946	Algebra II	Dixie	188	4R	Numerical puzzle.
844	16/05/1946	Blessed Plot	Nicholas	196	1	"Clues, mainly quotations, concern gardening."
845	23/05/1946	Code II	Scorpio	144	2R	"12 lights have the form ___OR___, giving the code; these have normal clues, while others are encoded."
846	30/05/1946	General	Sirius	112	1	Normal.
847	06/06/1946	Plus-Words II	Potomac	144	1	"Each answer must have a letter inserted to form the light (another word); the missing letter appears in the clue in the required position, e.g. 'Tug inferior horse' leads to TIT which becomes TITI."
848	13/06/1946	Theme VI	Proton	144	1	"Across clues are titles of poems; lights, all words, are initial letters of consecutive lines of the poems."
849	20/06/1946	Index of First Lines	Lingo	196	1	Lights are first words of poems or songs; clues are remainders of first lines.
850	27/06/1946	General	Sirius	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
851	04/07/1946	Eating	Joxon	143	1	"Clues, mainly quotations, refer to eating; some lights are jumbled."
852	11/07/1946	Four Fours	W. McNaught	45	1	"Numerical puzzle, with uniqueness of solution due only to the fact that all lights may be expressed using four fours."
853	18/07/1946	A Corner in History	Ricardo	144	1	"1 Across is CABAL; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Down are CLIFFORD, ASHLEY, BUCKINGHAM, ARLINGTON and LAUDERDALE."
854	25/07/1946	General	Sirius	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
855	01/08/1946	2-22 [The Honeycomb]	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from 'THAN HONEY AND THE HONEYCOMB'."
856	08/08/1946	'Armchair'	Afrit	196	4	Grid is blank.
857	15/08/1946	Withershins	Cocos	144	2R	"Across lights, all 4-letter, form a word-ladder with consecutive rungs contiguous; no clues are given to them."
858	22/08/1946	Double Acrostic II	Tesremos	144	2	Initial and final letters of across lights spell BARCHESTER TOWERS and FRAMLEY PARSONAGE respectively.
859	29/08/1946	General	Sirius	156	4	Grid is Times-style.
860	05/09/1946	One Remove	Quod	156	1	"Each light has a single misprint, this being just before or just after the correct letter in the alphabet."
861	12/09/1946	I Lisp'd in Numbers II	Scorpio	196	4R	Clues are the products of the numerical values of the letters in the lights.
862	19/09/1946	Trilemma - 2	Nicholas	169	1	Each clue hints at the light and two anagrams thereof.
863	26/09/1946	Proem	Altair	168	4	Grid is Times-style.
864	03/10/1946	Appointment with Fear	Pangloss	132	1	Narrative concerning a haunted house.
865	10/10/1946	"The X37-bibbing 37 [Gore, Ogre]"	Tracer	196	2R	Narrative (with X denoting anagram); diagonals spell 'PRONOUNCED THE STORY ONE LONG LIE'.
866	17/10/1946	Armchair II	Afrit	196	4	Grid is blank.
867	24/10/1946	Autumn	Joxon	143	1	"Clues, mainly quotations, refer to autumn; some lights are jumbled."
868	31/10/1946	Lucky Dip	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
869	07/11/1946	Word Sums 3	Proton	143	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
870	14/11/1946	Motley Mixture II	Tracer	169	2R	"Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a tale; diagonals, less corner letters, spell GALLIMAUFRY and NO MAD MIXING."
871	21/11/1946	Ex Libris	Jabberwock	143	1	"Most across clues are alternative titles to books or works; most down clues are authors' initials leading to titles forming complete sentences; in each case, lights are significant words from the (main) titles."
872	28/11/1946	Cave Canem	Altair	160	4R	Grid is Times-style.
873	05/12/1946	Two Sees	Afrit	168	2R	"Lights are entered diagonally, as traced by two bishops. Each clue leads as a whole to two answers, one for each bishop."
874	12/12/1946	Labyrinth	Marcus	130	1	"Clues are to rows and columns of words and abbreviations; in the completed grid may be traced 'MAY THE BABYLONISH CURSE STRAIGHT CONFOUND MY STAMMERING VERSE IF I CAN A PASSAGE SEE IN THIS WORD-PERPLEXITY, OR A FIT EXPRESSION FIND, OR A LANGUAGE TO MY MIND'."
875	19/12/1946	Theme VII	Proton	196	4	In each direction the two diagonals on either side of the main one spell out the alphabet in QWERTY order.
876	26/12/1946	Bran Pie	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
877	02/01/1947	Romantic	Jabberwock	169	1	"Unclued lights form 7 triplets of 'the time, the place and the loved one'."
878	09/01/1947	Word Squares	Tracer	64	4R	Grid comprises 4 word-squares; the diagonals spell CROSSWORD PUZZLES. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
879	16/01/1947	Anonyms	Tesremos	169	2	Each across light loses a Christian name on entry.
880	23/01/1947	Double Anagrams	Maragan	144	4R	"Each clue has two parts: one is an anagram of a synonym of a light, the other a synonym of an anagram of it."
881	30/01/1947	A Bibful	Altair	161	1	Grid is Times-style.
882	06/02/1947	Mathematical	W. McNaught	49	1	Numerical puzzle.
883	13/02/1947	Drinking	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to drinking; some lights are jumbled.
884	06/03/1947	Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 8	Proton	143	1	"Unclued lights are chemists, suggested very loosely by the first verse of Jabberwocky."
885	13/03/1947	Word-Ladder II	Tracer	64	4R	Lights are unclued rungs in a word-ladder.
886	20/03/1947	Compromise	Quod	156	1	"Each clue leads to two words, differing in two places; the light differs from each in just one place, e.g. CONTEND, CONSENT lead to CONTENT."
887	27/03/1947	"Cabbage, but no Kings"	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
888	03/04/1947	El-em-en-tary II	Jabberwock	132	1	"The letters L, M and N are replaced by other letters to form new words."
889	10/04/1947	Wellerisms	Hermes	144	1	Clues are from the Pickwick Papers.
890	17/04/1947	Touchstone	Afrit	144	4	Unchecked letters across and down may be arranged to form 'THE COUNTERCHECK COURTEOUS' and 'THE RE-PROOF CIRCUMSTANTIAL' respectively.
891	24/04/1947	One for All	Altair	165	4R	Grid is Times-style.
892	01/05/1947	Tobacco	Joxon	143	1	Clues refer to smoking; some lights are jumbled.
893	08/05/1947	Triplets	Babs	144	1	"Each clued light loses its ending on entry; the endings, each serving three words, are entered as unclued lights."
894	15/05/1947	Motley Mixture III	Tracer	164	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a tale.
895	22/05/1947	Double Acrostic III	Tesremos	148	4	Initial and final letters of across lights spell ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA and CANNOT A LADY TRAP ONE? respectively (the second being an anagram of the first).
896	29/05/1947	A Mixed Grill	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
897	05/06/1947	Greek	Pollux	144	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.
898	12/06/1947	Brackets	Jabberwock	129	4R	Each light is one word inside another; clues are similarly shaped.
899	19/06/1947	Word Sums - 4	Proton	144	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
900	26/06/1947	For an Idle Hour	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
901	03/07/1947	Ornithological	Wol	144	1	"Clues refer to birds; 24 lights are birds, described in random order in the preamble."
902	10/07/1947	Centenary	Lingo	144	1	All clues and lights are from JANE EYRE by CURRER BELL.
903	17/07/1947	Framed in Verse	Tiber	169	1	The four sides of the grid are opening lines of poems; the poets are also lights.
904	24/07/1947	Whatnot	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
905	31/07/1947	The Elusive Square	Tyke	110	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  a? + b? = 3ab ? 1 (which are terms of the Fibonacci series).
906	07/08/1947	Honeycomb II	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."
907	14/08/1947	The New Order	Okapi	64	4R	"The letters in each row and column are given in alphabetical order; the words of the grid may be reordered as ''BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY,' - THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW'."
908	21/08/1947	Olla Podrida	Joxon	143	1	Some lights are anagrams of answers.
909	28/08/1947	King without Cabbage	Altair	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
910	04/09/1947	Poet's Paradise	Marcus	144	1	"Narrative ode; in the completed grid may be traced 'SOULS OF POETS DEAD AND GONE, WHAT ELYSIUM HAVE YE KNOWN, HAPPY FIELD OR MOSSY CAVERH, CHOICER THAN THE MERMAID TAVERN? HAVE YE TIPPLED DRINK MORE FINE THAN MINE HOST'S CANARY WINE?'"
911	11/09/1947	Diamond	Afrit	169	4	Diamond words (reading from centre of top row to centre of bottom row via centres of edge columns) are WITCHES' SABBATH and WEEKEND DEBAUCH.
912	18/09/1947	Limericks	Babs	144	1	Clues are successive lines of limericks; a spiral reads CONVOLUTIONS SUBORBICULAR REAGGRAVATE EURHYTHMIC CLEAR-EYED DEVOTEES SIFTING GENIAL LOGIC CRAMMED DOGGEREL.
913	25/09/1947	Pot Luck	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
914	02/10/1947	Re-pairing	Quod	144	4R	"All lights are 4- or 6-letter; half of each is entered correctly, the other half elsewhere to make a new word."
915	09/10/1947	Portmantelpiece	Jabberwock	143	1	"16 lights are portmanteau words, e.g. ABIGAILMENT (Housemaid's knee)"
916	16/10/1947	Word-Squares II	Tracer	121	4R	"Grid comprises 9 word-squares; the top, central and bottom rows form three 11-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares."
917	23/10/1947	Block Letters	Maragan	100	4R	"Grid is in four just-connected quarters; clues are LL, with the same letter removed throughout each quarter and placed in the central blocked square - these spell ROTA."
918	30/10/1947	Pot-pourri	Altair	163	2	Grid is Times-style.
919	06/11/1947	Expansive	Dixie	160	4	Numerical puzzle involving squares and cubes; grid is Times-style.
920	13/11/1947	Motoring	Nicholas	196	2	Clues refer to motoring.
921	20/11/1947	Double-Barrelled II	Tesremos	180	1	Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row.
922	27/11/1947	A Drop o' Scotch	Altair	168	4	Grid is Times-style.
923	04/12/1947	These and Those	Marcus	169	1	"12 pairs of words meet in S on the main diagonal, e.g. SIXES and SEVENS."
924	11/12/1947	Free Association	Babs	169	1	"23 words form an unclued spiral, each suggesting the next, e.g. CHINA, TEA, TIME, PIECE."
925	18/12/1947	Trust Daphne!	Tracer	168	1	"11 positioning lights are clued; a spiral in the completed grid reads 'FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL, I PLUCK YOU OUT OF THE CRANNIES, I HOLD YOU HERE, ROOT AND ALL, IN MY HAND, LITTLE FLOWER - BUT IF I COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE, ROOT AND ALL, AND ALL IN ALL, I SHOULD KNOW WHAT GOD AND MAN IS'."
926	25/12/1947	Holiday Task	Altair	161	1	Grid is Times-style.
927	01/01/1948	Cross Check	Maragan	144	4R	"Each answer loses a letter to form the light; many clues contain one or more italicised words, defining the lights."
928	08/01/1948	Circles	Trand	80	1	Numerical puzzle concerning points with integral co-ordinates on circles.
929	15/01/1948	First Names - II	Redling	120	1	Clues lead to literary surnames; lights are corresponding first names.
930	22/01/1948	Acrostic	Quod	144	1	"Initial letters of clues spell THE INITIAL LETTERS OF ANSWERS IN THIS ORDER WILL FORM A VERSE; the result is 'AS A WHITE CANDLE IN A HOLY PLACE, SO IS THE BEAUTY OF AN AGED FACE'."
931	29/01/1948	The Play's the Thing	Altair	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
932	05/02/1948	Verbarium	Proton	144	1	"Down lights, all 4-letter, are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a passage of verse beginning WILL A BOER RAISE A YAWN? DOES A LAPP NEED A PEAK?"
933	12/02/1948	Selective	Robyn	180	1	"The letters B, C, E, F, G, H, J and K stand for numbers, used in the clues, e.g. 'One of C' (= 12) leads to SAGITTARIUS."
934	19/02/1948	Diagonal Examples	Scorpio	169	2R	Diagonals spell PANGRAMMATIST and ANAGRAMMATIST; certain lights provide examples.
935	26/02/1948	Parlez-Vous?	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
936	04/03/1948	Double Check	Neon	176	4R	Each clue defines the light and leads to two anagrams or pseudo-anagrams of it.
937	11/03/1948	Examination Results	Gadfly	130	1	Numerical puzzle concerning numbers of students passing or failing four examinations.
938	18/03/1948	Framed in Verse	Tiber	169	1	The four sides of the grid spell last lines of poems concerning death; the poets are unclued lights.
939	25/03/1948	Missing Notes	Altair	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
940	01/04/1948	Double Demon	Div	225	1	Clues are double DLM; main diagonals and central column and row spell APRIL FOOL! THIS IS A WRONG SOLUTION - THERE'S ANOTHER ONE SO START OFF AGAIN in one grid and THIS POISSON D'AVRIL YIELDS TWO ALTERNATE RESOLUTIONS - THIS IS SOLVED OK in the other.
941	08/04/1948	Morse	Proton	144	4R	Lights are entered in Morse code.
942	15/04/1948	The Little Devil	Golbasto	9	1	Numerical puzzle concerning the Pellian equation  x? = 6y? + 1.
943	22/04/1948	Shakespeare	Glaucus	195	1	Lights (many in two or more pieces) are Shakespearean characters.
944	29/04/1948	Medley	Altair	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
945	06/05/1948	Doubles	Babs	144	2R	Each clue is used twice.
946	13/05/1948	Centenary II	Lingo	144	1	Clues are quotations from DOMBEY AND SON by CHARLES DICKENS (completed 1848).
947	20/05/1948	Puns Asinorum	Afrit	143	2	Many clues have a geometrical flavour and almost all involve dreadful puns.
948	27/05/1948	Hotch-Potch	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
949	03/06/1948	Portrait	Babs	256	1	Narrative biography; bar pattern gives a face.
950	10/06/1948	Word-Ladder - III	Tracer	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
951	17/06/1948	Knight's Move VII	Cocos	144	1	Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
952	24/06/1948	What a Lark!	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
953	01/07/1948	Alphabetic	Stephanus	169	4R	"Read across, grid forms a continuous phrase, descriptive of the puzzle, of 26 words beginning with the different letters of the alphabet in turn; each column has a clue defining the words and abbreviations to be entered."
954	08/07/1948	Cubicals	McNaught	49	1	Numerical puzzle with certain lights being the difference of two cubes.
955	15/07/1948	What Says?	Proton	130	1	"Each across light is clued 'phonetically', e.g. 'S says 1A' leads to OPHELIA (Essays of Elia)."
956	22/07/1948	Latin	Castor	196	1	Lights are entered in Latin.
957	29/07/1948	Have a Go	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
958	05/08/1948	Quaternary	Occid	182	1	Clues are anagrams of synonyms of anagrams of the lights.
959	12/08/1948	22's Alternative [Eric]	Scorpio	196	4R	"Lights are unclued rungs of a ladder in which each word leads to the next by the change, addition or loss of a letter and reordering."
960	19/08/1948	Ornithological II	Wol	132	1	Clues concern birds.
961	26/08/1948	Holiday Task	Altair	160	2	Grid is Times-style.
962	02/09/1948	Abecedary	Marcus	144	1	The letters of each light are entered in alphabetical order.
963	09/09/1948	No Trumps	Solo	100	1	"Numerical puzzle, clued by 'card values', e.g. SPADES = 64, so AS = 65, 2S = 66, ..., KS = 77."
964	16/09/1948	A Character from Dickens	Hermes	144	1	All lights concern CAP'EN CUTTLE.
965	23/09/1948	Honeycomb III	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."
966	30/09/1948	Miscellany	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
967	07/10/1948	Word Sums - 5	Proton	143	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
968	14/10/1948	Overflow	Babs	144	1	"24 clues lead to answers of which the first part (a word) is the light, and the second (another word) is a similar light elsewhere."
969	21/10/1948	Double Anagrams - II	Maragan	144	4R	"Each clue has two parts: one is an anagram of a synonym of a light, the other a synonym of an anagram of it."
970	28/10/1948	Mosaic	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
971	04/11/1948	Ellipses	Trand	40	1R	Numerical puzzle concerning points with integral co-ordinates on ellipses.
972	11/11/1948	English History	Lingo	196	1	Clues relate to English history.
973	18/11/1948	Knight's Move - VIII	Cocos	169	1	"26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas."
974	25/11/1948	Pastiche	Altair	158	4	Grid is Times-style.
975	02/12/1948	Figures of Speech	Babs	144	1	7 lights are figures of speech exemplified in the clues.
976	09/12/1948	Threesomes	Stephanus	126	1	Clues define the light and its first and second parts.
977	16/12/1948	Reconstituted Poets	Scorpio	182	1	Clues are quotations; the lights are anagrams (of one or more words) of the authors.	
978	23/12/1948	Just the Difference	Div	254	1	"Two-word clues define two words, of which the second is to be subtracted from the first to leave the light. Reading the grid diagonally gives a seasonal quotation from Dickens."	
979	30/12/1948	Happy New Year	Altair	164	2	Grid is Times-style.	
980	06/01/1949	Motley Mixture - IV	Tracer	168	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two 'poems'.	
981	13/01/1949	State Monopolies	Tiber	169	1	"20 lights are popular names of American states, clued by anagrams; remaining clues have the same number of letters as their lights."	
982	20/01/1949	Neological	Proton	143	1	"Each of the 26 across lights may be augmented by interpolating one letter (A in the first, B in the second etc.) between the second and third letters; these longer words are defined in italics after the clues."	
983	27/01/1949	Mixture as before	Altair	166	2	Grid is Times-style.	
984	03/02/1949	Salmagundi	Falambuco	144	4	"7 lights are mixtures of answers, and are clued in brackets after the normal clues."	
985	10/02/1949	Synogram	A.E.S.	153	4	Each clue contains one or more words whose letters are to be rearranged and another word (defined) removed to form the light.	
986	17/02/1949	Mephisto - Pellian	Jim	81	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  x? ? 1 = 2y?,  x? ? 1 = 5y?,  x? - 1 = 3y?  and  x? + 2 = 3y?."	
987	24/02/1949	Higgledy	Altair	160	4	Grid is Times-style.	
988	03/03/1949	"Little Pigley Farm, 1935"	Surveyor	35	1	Numerical puzzle concerning a farm.	
989	10/03/1949	Square Deal	Bod	195	1	"Some lights and half the clues are Playfair-coded, the codesquare forming the centre of the grid."	Facetiously
990	17/03/1949	Greek	Pollux	168	1	Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.	
991	24/03/1949	Semi-Cipher	Wol	144	1	Across lights are entered encoded using a substitution cipher.	
992	31/03/1949	Piggledy	Altair	161	4R	Grid is Times-style.	
993	07/04/1949	Polysyllabic	Div	144	1	"Alternate rows and columns are 12-letter words, with each row being the same as the corresponding column; clues define component parts thereof in random order."
994	14/04/1949	BRTHRS (OE)	Babs	144	1	Narrative concerning two brothers; only consonants are entered.
995	21/04/1949	Squares and Cubes	Trand	100	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  x? + y? = z?.
996	28/04/1949	Try Your Luck	Altair	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
997	05/05/1949	Word Squares III	Tracer	121	4R	Grid comprises 9 word-squares; the central row and column form two 11-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
998	12/05/1949	Morse 2	Proton	169	4R	"Lights are entered in Morse code, each occupying 13 squares."
999	19/05/1949	Transposer	Bod	144	1	"Across lights are all 12-letter, entered according to the alphabetical order of the letters in MOTHERS-IN-LAW (1 Across, unclued)."
1000	26/05/1949	Jubilate	Altair	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
1001	02/06/1949	'The Thousand and one (K)nights'	Cocos	169	1	Names of knights are entered along knight's moves; other lights are entered across. Letter sums of lights are also given; each square is used exactly twice.
1002	09/06/1949	Waverley Mixture	Lingo	169	1	Clues and lights refer to Scott's Waverley novels.
1003	16/06/1949	Helical	Stephanus	182	1	"26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 27 positioning lights."
1004	23/06/1949	Word Squares	Septem	144	4R	"Grid comprises 9 word-squares, each of whose NE-SW diagonals comprises a single letter. Anagrams are given of the 10 letters on and above the main NW-SE diagonal of each square."
1005	30/06/1949	'____ my dear Watson'	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
1006	07/07/1949	Honeycomb IV	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."
1007	14/07/1949	Personagram	A.E.S.	160	4	"Grid is Times-style; lights, all names of personalities, are entered letter by letter."
1008	21/07/1949	Dog Days	Babs	144	1	"Narrative in (distinctly doggy) Latin, comprising two witness statements."
1009	28/07/1949	Holiday Fare	Altair	160	2R	Grid is Times-style.
1010	04/08/1949	Hyperbolic	Tyke	121	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  x? - ay? = 16 - a = ?b?  for  a < 21.
1011	11/08/1949	Double Demon	Falambuco	144	1	There are two identical 12 x 6 grids; clues for corresponding lights are run together (some lights being meaningless jumbles).
1012	18/08/1949	Three-Dimensional	Tiber	64	4R	"Grid is a 4 x 4 x 4 cube with lights in all three directions; edge lights are clued first, with remaining clues in random order."
1013	25/08/1949	Holiday Task	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
1014	01/09/1949	Disenvowelled	Zander	144	1	"Only the vowels of each answer are entered; A, E, I, O, U and Y each appear 24 times in the grid."
1015	08/09/1949	Circular	Div	93	3R	Grid is circular with radial lights all 5-letter; all circles also comprise words.
1016	15/09/1949	Another Mixed Bag	Nimrod	117	1	Normal.
1017	22/09/1949	Word Ladder IV	Tracer	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1018	29/09/1949	Mixed Company	Altair	161	2	Grid is Times-style.
1019	06/10/1949	All Change	Timoneto	169	1	"All across lights are entered encoded, the code for each light being such that A would become the final letter of the previous answer."
1020	13/10/1949	Chess Moves	Pipeg	121	1	"Across lights are normal; the remainder are entered along knight's, bishop's or castle's moves."
1021	20/10/1949	Roman Style	Babs	196	1	"Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. WEASEL leads to XXIIIVIXIXVXII."
1022	27/10/1949	Why of Course!	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style.
1023	03/11/1949	Higher Powers	W. McNaught	25	1	Numerical puzzle concerning primes raised to prime powers modulo primes (all primes being 2-digit).
1024	10/11/1949	Knight's Move - IX	Cocos	156	1	"26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas."
1025	17/11/1949	Theme VII	Proton	143	1R	Across lights (3 of which are unclued) are characters from Dickens.
1026	24/11/1949	For a Wet Day	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style.
1027	01/12/1949	Acrosticross	Aries	156	1	"The central 6 x 5 rectangle, almost isolated from the remainder of the grid, forms a double acrostic."
1028	08/12/1949	Word Squares IV	Tracer	100	4R	Grid comprises 4 word-squares; the central two rows form 10-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1029	15/12/1949	Alphabetical Jigsaw	Tyke	121	1	"All lights have their letters in alphabetical order. Clues are grouped by light length; 2- and 3-letter lights are unclued, as is BILLOWY."
1030	22/12/1949	Literary Pets	Hermes	144	1	Lights are animals in literature or pets of authors.
1031	29/12/1949	One Good Wish	Altair	151	2	Grid is Times-style.
1032	05/01/1950	Eye-Rhymes	Babs	132	1	"Each clue, apart from two superfluous words, leads to an answer whose first part is the light; one of the words confirms the light, while the other is an eye-rhyme of the answer, ending with the letters which must be removed to form the light."
1033	12/01/1950	Misprints	Stephanus	144	4R	"Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters."
1034	19/01/1950	Trisected Triangles	Trand	40	4R	Numerical puzzle concerning various triangles with one side trisected.
1035	26/01/1950	All My Eye	Altair	168	4	Grid is Times-style.
1036	02/02/1950	Peculiar Proverbs	Wol	145	4	Each set of four symmetrically-placed lights has one clue defining all four in random order.
1037	09/02/1950	Poetic Circles	Pipeg	160	40R	Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1038	16/02/1950	Jumble Pie	Falambuco	144	2	Normal.
1039	23/02/1950	Pretty Poll	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to the election.
1040	02/03/1950	Disenvowelled II	Zander	144	4	"Only the vowels of each answer are entered; A, E, I, O, U and Y each appear 24 times in the grid."
1041	09/03/1950	Ten-Mile Radius	Tiber	169	1	"1 Across is BUCKFASTLEIGH; remaining across lights (all 13-letter) are anagrams of pairs of towns about ten miles apart, clued by the county in which they lie."	
1042	16/03/1950	Marigold	Aesthete	172	4R	"Grid is circular; two circles contain 'IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS, WITH A HEY, AND A HO, AND A HEY NONINO' and 'WE THE GLOBE CAN COMPASS SOON'."	
1043	23/03/1950	Latin	Castor	156	1	Lights are entered in Latin.	
1044	30/03/1950	Cum grano	Altair	164	4R	Grid is Times-style.	
1045	06/04/1950	Motley Mixture V	Tracer	168	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a paragraph and a 'poem'.	
1046	13/04/1950	Circular II	Div	93	3R	"Grid is circular; radial lights are all 5-letter, entered jumbled; circumference reads 'NEVER ASCRIBE TO AN OPPONENT MOTIVES MEANER THAN YOUR OWN' by BARRIE (fourth circle)."	
1047	20/04/1950	Space Saver	Babs	81	1	"Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. POMPOM leads to P O M, KNICK-KNACK leads to K N I/A C K."	
1048	27/04/1950	Free and Easy	Altair	164	2R	Grid is Times-style.	
1049	04/05/1950	Queen's Moves	Octavian	42	1	"Numerical puzzle in base 8; lights are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally."	
1050	11/05/1950	Trunk-Call	Aries	196	1	"7-letter lights are clued by 'telephone numbers', using the keyword GLADSTONE, with numbers referring to positions in the keyword, e.g. PLI3657 becomes PLIATSO which leads to APOSTIL."	
1051	18/05/1950	Squares and Triangles	Numps	71	1R	"Numerical puzzle, with grid a triangle plus a square; clues involve the first six solutions of  ? m(m + 1) = N = n?."	
1052	25/05/1950	'Small Latin...'	Altair	161	4	Grid is Times-style.	
1053	01/06/1950	Seven Poems in Search of their Authors	Babs	225	1	7 poems and their authors are unclued.	
1054	08/06/1950	'Double or Quit'	Pipeg	130	1	"9 clues lead to pairs of 4-letter words, of which the second is the Playfair-coded version of the first; the codesquare appears in the grid."	Transfixed
1055	15/06/1950	Personalia	Aesthete	157	4	Lights are 2- or 3-word anagrams of personalities.	
1056	22/06/1950	Honeycomb V	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."	
1057	29/06/1950	By and Large	Altair	156	4R	Grid is Times-style.
1058	06/07/1950	Alphabetic II	Stephanus	169	1	"26 unclued lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are KINDS OF BOATS and SHIPs."
1059	13/07/1950	Circular III	Div	93	3R	"Grid is circular; radial lights are all 5-letter, entered jumbled; circumference reads 'THE FIRST IS THE TASTE WHICH IS MEAGRE AND HOLLOW BUT CRISP' by LEWIS CARROLL (third circle)."
1060	20/07/1950	Schizologia	Tyke	163	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1061	27/07/1950	Holiday Fare	Altair	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
1062	03/08/1950	Centenary III	Lingo	169	1	Clues are quotations from DAVID COPPERFIELD by CHARLES DICKENS (first published in book form in 1850).
1063	10/08/1950	Twos and Threes	Falambuco	169	4R	Lights are clued in rows or columns.
1064	17/08/1950	Equation Square	Fez	25	4R	Grid is a 5 x 5 word-square; clues are to sums of letter-values and are given in terms of the symmetric functions of the roots of the cubic equation  x? + x + 7 = 0.
1065	24/08/1950	Old Boys' Match	Zander	96	2R	"Down clues are DLM; across lights (unclued) form two opposing football teams, all Old Testament characters."
1066	31/08/1950	And all that	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to 1066.
1067	14/09/1950	The Dream	Babs	130	1	"All lights lose the consecutive letters APS in some order, and are omitted from a poem."
1068	21/09/1950	Word-Squares V	Tracer	196	4R	"Grid comprises 9 word-squares, each of whose main NE-SW diagonals contains just the letter E repeated; clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares. The first words of the 4-letter word squares are BATE, HATE, PATE and TATE; those of the 5-letter ones are BASTE, HASTE, PASTE and TASTE."
1069	28/09/1950	Plain Sailing	Altair	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
1070	02/11/1950	Acrosticross II	Aries	156	1	"The central 6 x 5 rectangle, almost isolated from the remainder of the grid, forms a double acrostic."
1071	09/11/1950	Deflationary Spiral	Wray	63	1	"Grid is a spiral, each word being an anagram of the previous one with one letter removed; 8 positioning lights are clued."
1072	16/11/1950	Last Lines	Pipeg	156	1	"Several clues are last lines of stanzas or poems; the lights are the authors. If authors are given, lights are words in the corresponding first lines."
1073	23/11/1950	Endless Chain	Babs	144	2	"25 clues lead to words whose first parts are entered where stated, the remainders as first parts elsewhere."
1074	30/11/1950	Autumn Fancies	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
1075	07/12/1950	Motley Mixture VI	Tracer	168	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.
1076	14/12/1950	Discard Square	Fez	144	1	"16 answers lose a letter on entry, the lights still being words; the omitted letters form a 4 x 4 word-square with main diagonal also a word."
1077	21/12/1950	A Square Deal	Tyke	72	2	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  x? + 2y? = z?.
1078	28/12/1950	Ring in the New	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to the New Year.
1079	04/01/1951	Compendious	Stephanus	126	1	"Narrative, with various lights containing certain symbols, entered appropriately, e.g. PLUSFOURS leads to +4S, JEWS' HARP leads to JEW#."
1080	11/01/1951	Zoological Cyphers	Vectis	119	2R	"Grid is Times-style; clues are encoded by replacing A by Z, B by Y etc.; lights are all animals, birds, fish, insects or reptiles."
1081	18/01/1951	Three Dimensional II	Tiber	60	2R	"Grid is a 3 x 4 x 5 cuboid with lights in all three directions; edge lights are clued first, with remaining clues in random order."
1082	25/01/1951	Mixed Grill	Altair	156	2	Grid is Times-style.
1083	01/02/1951	Proverbial Triglot	Hardi	74	1R	"Across lights and unchecked letters can be arranged to form proverbs in English, French and German."
1084	08/02/1951	Wheels Within	Trochos	93	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'BUT CUSTOM MAKES BLIND AND OBDURATE THE LOFTIEST HEARTS' by PERCY SHELLEY (third circle)."
1085	15/02/1951	Olympic Games	Zander	96	2R	"Down clues are DLM; across lights (unclued) form two opposing football teams, all characters from classical mythology."
1086	22/02/1951	Ambages	Altair	162	2	Grid is Times-style.
1087	01/03/1951	Schizologia II	Tyke	155	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1088	08/03/1951	Cyclic - Hexagons	Jim	96	6R	"Grid is hexagonal, made up of equilateral triangles; lights are all 6-letter, entered around numbers."
1089	15/03/1951	SSTRS(IE)	Babs	100	1	Narrative concerning three sisters; only consonants are entered.
1090	22/03/1951	Poetic Circles - II	Pipeg	144	1	Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1091	29/03/1951	Patchwork	Altair	166	2	Grid is Times-style.
1092	05/04/1951	About It and About	Bart	182	1	"26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 26 positioning lights."
1093	12/04/1951	Triangular Jigsaw	Wray	39	3R	"Grid comprises 13 equilateral triangles; in each is entered a 6-letter word, with pairs of letters on adjacent sides equal."
1094	19/04/1951	Word Ladder V	Tracer	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1095	26/04/1951	'The Net Spread'	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.
1096	03/05/1951	Dome of Discovery	Jee	32	4R	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  x? + y? + z? = 99?.
1097	10/05/1951	A Djintec Puzzle translated	Vectis	123	2R	Grid is Times-style; clues define the lights or antonyms thereof; lights are entered either forwards or backwards.
1098	17/05/1951	Neo-Classical	Twost	143	1	Across lights are all names of Derby winners.
1099	24/05/1951	B. Trothed and Marie Tal	Jabberwock	144	1	"15 pairs of answers, when given affixes, sound like couples as in the title."
1100	31/05/1951	For June Days	Altair	164	4	Grid is Times-style.
1101	07/06/1951	Spiral Chequers	Fez	144	1	There are 17 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1102	14/06/1951	Symbolical	Babs	144	1	"Narrative, with various lights containing certain symbols, entered appropriately, e.g. COLONNADE leads to :NADE, CARETAKER leads to ^AKER."
1103	21/06/1951	Shakespeare Unbound	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'ALL ... GIVE TO DUST THAT IS A LITTLE GILT MORE LAUD THAN GILT O'ERDUSTED'."
1104	28/06/1951	'22 58' [Sea Areas]	Tiber	225	1	Unclued lights are SEA AREAS.
1105	05/07/1951	Statecraft	Bart	180	1	Across lights are jumbles of pairs of American states.	
1106	12/07/1951	Honeycomb VI	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."	
1107	19/07/1951	Equations	Trand	48	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to such equations as  a? + b? = c? + d?.	
1108	26/07/1951	Do It By Numbers	Pipeg	144	1	"Only the letters A, B, ..., I of the answers form the lights, entered as their numerical equivalents, e.g. AGREEABLY leads to 175512."	
1109	02/08/1951	Proverbial Tetraglot	Hardi	102	2R	"Across lights and unchecked letters can be arranged to form the same proverb in English, French, German and Spanish."	
1110	09/08/1951	Cook's Tour	Zander	169	1	19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.	
1111	16/08/1951	On the Roundabouts	Bod	144	1	"Clues are in pairs; the first part of one answer is transferred to the start of the other to form two new words, e.g. ELOPE, ENVIRONS lead to ENVELOPE, IRONS."	
1112	23/08/1951	Mainly Musical	Wray	150	3R	"Grid is triangular with 6-letter lights entered in triangles, with pairs of letters on adjacent sides equal; 12 lights are composers."	
1113	30/08/1951	Fourges	Fez	133	4R	"A keyword, followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, is placed in columns numbered from 1 to 9; each letter in the lights is entered as the number of its column."	Frugality
1114	06/09/1951	Northern Lights	Log	120	1	"Narrative concerning a sea-voyage; all letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down."	
1115	13/09/1951	Alphabetical Jigsaw II	Tyke	121	1	All lights have their letters in reverse alphabetical order. Clues are grouped by light length; 2- and 3-letter lights are unclued.	
1116	20/09/1951	Arabic Style	Babs	132	1	"Lights are omitted from 6 limericks, and are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. APPAREL leads to 11616118512."	
1117	27/09/1951	Nos Moutons	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.	
1118	04/10/1951	One or Two	Stephanus	100	1	Each square contains one or two letters.	
1119	11/10/1951	Word-Squares VI	Tracer	196	4R	Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell ENIGMA. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.	
1120	18/10/1951	Salt on their Tails	Octavian	12	1	Numerical puzzle.	
1121	25/10/1951	Imp of Mischief	Pipeg	144	1	Some clues are PD; some are quotations in which the light has been replaced by another word.
1122	01/11/1951	Ant-Hill	Topher	196	1	38 answers lose ANT on entry.
1123	08/11/1951	Quotagrams	Zander	144	2	Asterisked clues are anagrams of quotations; lights are significant words from the correct versions.
1124	15/11/1951	The Quadrangle	Vectis	121	1	Odd-numbered lights are entered in any direction in alternate squares; even-numbered lights are entered diagonally and 'rebound' at the edges of the grid.
1125	22/11/1951	Noah's Ark	Ad	120	1	"Grid is circular, with radial lights entered inwards and running from the innermost circle back to the outermost where necessary. Clues are PD, leading to names of animals and birds together with PARKS."
1126	29/11/1951	The Following Have Arrived	Babs	65	4R	"Lights (all 9-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips."
1127	06/12/1951	Motley Mixture VII	Tracer	168	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.
1128	13/12/1951	Hexa-Pentagonal	Croton	64	2R	"Grid comprises two overlapping hexagonal lattices such that each hexagon is divided into 4 pentagons, and contains a 4-letter word read clockwise; four 8-letter words are formed along the edges."
1129	20/12/1951	KN = Pepper	Twost	196	1	"16 unclued lights are synonyms of words sounding like one, two or three letters (as in the title)."
1130	27/12/1951	Anno Domini	Altair	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
1131	03/01/1952	Poetic Circles III	Pipeg	144	1	Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1132	10/01/1952	Closed Circuits	Wray	84	4R	"Lights are 5-letter, entered clockwise around numbers so that first and last letters (which are the same) occupy the same cell; clues are in random order within rows."
1133	17/01/1952	Spiral Chequers II	Fez	144	1	There are 17 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1134	24/01/1952	Uneven Scales	W. McNaught	25	1	Numerical puzzle with solutions to clues correct in base 9 and base 11.
1135	31/01/1952	Ordinary	Strathmacore	162	2R	Grid is Times-style.
1136	07/02/1952	About It and About II	Bart	182	1	"26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 26 positioning lights."
1137	14/02/1952	Pasty	Jim	144	1	Narrative concerning a holiday in Cornwall.	
1138	21/02/1952	Wheels Within - II	Trochos	93	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'I HAD BEEN CONTENT TO PERISH FALLING ON THE FOEMAN'S GROUND' by LORD TENNYSON (third circle)."	
1139	28/02/1952	Misprints - II	Stephanus	144	4	"Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters."	
1140	06/03/1952	Missing Links	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.	
1141	13/03/1952	Homonymous	Topher	144	1	38 lights are homonyms of the answers to the clues.	
1142	20/03/1952	Puzzle Lock	Tiber	126	1	"Puzzle concerning a lock having 7 rings, each containing 9 letters; together they form 'HI LOCKED, LETTERED, BRAW BRASS COLLAR SHOWED HIM THE GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR'."	
1143	27/03/1952	A Mixed Bag	Altair	166	2	Grid is Times-style.	
1144	03/04/1952	Schizologia - III	Tyke	161	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.	
1145	10/04/1952	Playfair	Pipeg	144	2	8 lights are Playfair-coded.	Hexagynous
1146	17/04/1952	Word-ladder - VI	Tracer	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.	
1147	24/04/1952	Once Removed	Babs	144	1	Each clue leads to a word associated with the light.	
1148	01/05/1952	Both Worlds (1148 = ARD)	Abdul	144	1	Across clues are mathematical; lights are in base 26. Most down lights are jumbled.	
1149	08/05/1952	Punnish	Stephanus	144	1	Each clue defines the light and two words which together form a homonym of it.	
1150	15/05/1952	Quotagrams - II	Zander	144	2	Asterisked clues are anagrams of quotations; lights are significant words from the correct versions.	
1151	22/05/1952	Eh? Bee. See?	Scorpio	64	1	"Lights are entered as letters and numbers sounding correct, e.g. EXTENUATE leads to X 10 U 8, EFFENDI leads to F N D."	
1152	29/05/1952	The Following Have Arrived - II	Babs	96	4R	"Lights (all 11-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips."	
1153	05/06/1952	A)nagram(s	Selce	76	4R	Clues define words of which the lights are anagrams with first and last letters removed.
1154	12/06/1952	Shakespeare Unbound - II	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'MANHOOD IS CALLED FOOLERY WHEN IT STANDS AGAINST A FALLING FABRIC'."
1155	19/06/1952	Northern Lights - II	Log	165	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. 12 unclued lights are signs of the zodiac; others are GREAT BEAR, BIG DIPPER, URSA MAJOR, WAIN."
1156	26/06/1952	Line upon Line	Altair	168	4	Grid is Times-style.
1157	03/07/1952	Discard Square - II	Fez	169	1	"16 answers lose one or two (consecutive) letters on entry, the lights still being words; the omitted letters form a 5 x 5 word-square with main diagonal also a word."
1158	10/07/1952	Honeycomb - VII	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."
1159	17/07/1952	Last Lines - II	Pipeg	144	2	"Several clues are last lines of stanzas or poems; the lights are the authors. If authors are given, lights are words in the corresponding first lines."
1160	24/07/1952	Trisected Angles	Trand	88	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning a triangle with a trisected angle.
1161	31/07/1952	Idle Thoughts	Vectis	116	4R	Most clues are nonsense couplets containing anagrams of Shakespearean characters.
1162	07/08/1952	Numerc Ecson	Occid	144	1	"All lights lose numbers (in English, French, German or Latin, including Roman numerals) on entry."
1163	14/08/1952	"14A Through the 12D [Alice, Quizzing-glass]"	Sansine	120	1	"Narrative concerning ALICE, with all lights losing any Ps or Qs and having any double letters entered singly."
1164	21/08/1952	Snakes and Ladders	Twig	100	2R	Grid is a word-ladder; 6 diagonal lights are clued as snakes.
1165	28/08/1952	40-17 [Swiss Holiday]	Wray	196	1	Unclued lights are places in Switzerland.
1166	04/09/1952	"[The Plough, Inverted]"	Pone	130	1	"Across lights are entered BOUSTROPHEDON, down lights UPSIDE-DOWN."
1167	11/09/1952	Over The Styx	Babs	196	1	Narrative concerning famous horses and their owners; only consonants of lights are entered.
1168	18/09/1952	Bridge	Pipeg	52	2R	"Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20)."
1169	25/09/1952	Rag-bag	Altair	166	2	Grid is Times-style.	
1170	02/10/1952	All Change	Topher	156	1	"Lights are misprints of answers, and are still words."	
1171	09/10/1952	Word-Squares - VII	Tracer	196	4R	Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell CLEVEREST. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.	
1172	16/10/1952	Alphabetical Inserts	Sam	169	1	"The alphabet is entered in two columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. ARDENT - ART = DEN."	
1173	23/10/1952	Neo-Pythagorean	Croton	20	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  a? + b? = 2c?.	
1174	30/10/1952	Outdoor Ariels	Egma	196	1	Unclued lights are types of antelope.	
1175	06/11/1952	Nominal	Rekab	144	1	Some clues are first names of English writers; the lights are their second Christian names.	
1176	13/11/1952	Much of a Muchness	Topher	210	1	Unclued lights are sets of mutual anagrams.	
1177	20/11/1952	"Across, Down, and Through"	Hereward Wyke	81	4R	Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube with block cubes; clues are the letters of the lights in alphabetical order with four extra letters added.	
1178	27/11/1952	Farrago	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.	
1179	04/12/1952	Motley Mixture - VIII	Tracer	168	2R	Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.	
1180	11/12/1952	Swallowtails	Sprog	225	1	"12 extracts from quotations (given) form a spiral, with 3-letter overlaps; parts of the quotations appear as positioning lights."	
1181	18/12/1952	Plum Pudding	Bart	225	1	Clues are DLM; unclued lights are coins.	
1182	25/12/1952	The Festive Board	Div	182	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; the grid forms 'HOW BLESS'D, HOW ENVIED, WERE OUR LIFE COULD WE BUT SCAPE THE POULTERER'S KNIFE! BUT MAN, CURS'D MAN, ON TURKEYS PREYS, AND CHRISTMAS SHORTENS ALL OUR DAYS: SOMETIMES WITH OYSTERS WE COMBINE, SOMETIMES ASSIST THE SAVOURY CHINE' - GAY."	
1183	01/01/1953	Mixed Veg	Ad	120	1	"In each row and column lights can run on from the last square to the first; clues are PD, leading to vegetable items."	
1184	08/01/1953	Double or Quit - II	Pipeg	156	1	"12 clues lead to pairs of 4-letter words, of which the second is the Playfair-coded version of the first; the codesquare appears in the grid."	Superdainty
1185	15/01/1953	Pros and Cons	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.	
1186	22/01/1953	Skeleton Crossnumber	Phydros	64	1	Numerical puzzle with blank grid.	
1187	29/01/1953	Elysian Kennel Club	Babs	144	1	"Narrative concerning several famous dogs; consonants only are entered, vowels are given."	
1188	05/02/1953	Idle Thoughts Again	Vectis	127	1	Clues are couplets containing anagrams of fictional characters (starred clues also contain a word of the title concerned); these are entered with overlaps in chains.	
1189	12/02/1953	Wheels Within - III	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle and third circle spell 'HE LEFT HIS SUBJECTS STILL BEHIND, ONE HALF AS MAD - AND T'OTHER NO LESS BLIND', referring to GEORGE THE THIRD (appearing, jumbled, in certain cells of the second circle)."	
1190	19/02/1953	Alphabetical Jigsaw - III	Tyke	169	1	All lights have their first halves in alphabetical order and their second halves in reverse alphabetical order; those of even length have the two central letters the same. Clues are grouped by light length; 3-letter words are unclued.	
1191	26/02/1953	Cook's Tour - II	Zander	169	1	19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.	
1192	05/03/1953	The Brigand of Split	Rex	121	1	Grid has only vertical bars. Each across light and a homonym thereof are defined in a narrative; some down lights are clued in column order.	
1193	12/03/1953	Caesarean	VLX [Jim]	144	1	Thirteen 2-letter lights give the pairs of a substitution cipher (consisting of the codewords above the rest of the alphabet in order); answers to two of the ten coded clues are entered encoded.	Facetious Jymp
1194	19/03/1953	Here and There	Fudge	144	1	Asterisked clues lead to words associated with the lights by phrases '_____ AND _____'.	
1195	26/03/1953	Pastime	Altair	168	2	Grid is Times-style.	
1196	02/04/1953	Just So	Pone	144	1	Narrative concerning 'How the Rhinoceros got his Skin' in Kipling's 'Just So Stories'.	
1197	09/04/1953	Limited Objectives	Wray	156	1	"Only 10 different letters appear in the grid; other letters are removed from answers to clues and the light is an anagram of the remainder. 3 unclued lights require no removal or rearrangement, and each contains all 10 letters (with repetitions)."	
1198	16/04/1953	Word Ladder VII	Tracer	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.	
1199	23/04/1953	Ragman	Selce	96	4R	Clues define words of which the lights are anagrams with first and last letters removed.	
1200	30/04/1953	Plonk-Plunk	Stephanus	80	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  ax? = by? + 1.	
1201	07/05/1953	Portmanteaux	Topher	165	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
1202	14/05/1953	Singles and Doubles	Turk	144	2	Certain squares have 2 letters entered in them.
1203	21/05/1953	E-Changes	Sam	169	1	Answers to the 26 across clues each contain at least one letter E; one such is replaced by another letter (the new letters being the alphabet in order) and an anagram of what results is the light.
1204	28/05/1953	Coronation Chaplet	Pipeg	88	8R	"Grid is circular; radial clues define words from which shorter words are to be removed, leaving 4-letter lights. A spiral reads 'MAY YOU RULE US LONG AND LEAVE US RULERS OF YOUR BLOOD AS NOBLE TILL THE LATEST DAY' from 'TO THE QUEEN' by TENNYSON (jumbled in central circle)."
1205	04/06/1953	Snakes and Ladders	Ad	121	1	Ladder lights are entered upwards either vertically or diagonally; snake lights traverse squares in any direction except upwards.
1206	11/06/1953	Northern Lights III	Log	100	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. 10 lights are homonyms of words in Gray's Elegy; in each case a second word from the same line is entered as an unclued light."
1207	18/06/1953	Verbal Quiz	Div	121	1	"The numerical sum of each light is given as its clue; the unchecked letters form the title. Each diagonal contains CONSEQUENCE, the only 11-letter word spoken by Reynaldo in Hamlet."
1208	25/06/1953	Medley	Altair	160	4	Grid is Times-style.
1209	02/07/1953	Perfectly Plain	Fez	168	4R	Grid is blank; clues are numbered normally.
1210	09/07/1953	Skeletons in the Cupboard	Taffy	63	2R	Clues each define two words; lights are the 3 letters common to both. Grid spells 'A HEDGE BETWEEN KEEPS FRIENDSHIP GREEN' and 'ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER'.
1211	16/07/1953	Honeycomb VIII	Tracer	90	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically."
1212	23/07/1953	Square Routes	Jayphanx	100	1	Numerical puzzle; lights are entered in 5 square chains and consist of numbers followed by their square roots with 1-digit overlaps.
1213	30/07/1953	Shakespeare Unbound - III	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'WHAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED 'TWERE CHILDISH WEAKNESS TO LAMENT OR FEAR'."
1214	06/08/1953	Hexagrammatos	Duplex	126	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON: SONG AGAINST GROCERS: 'GOD MADE THE WICKED GROCER FOR A MYSTERY AND A SIGN, THAT MEN MIGHT SHUN THE AWFUL SHOP AND GO TO INNS TO DINE'."
1215	13/08/1953	Missing Links - II	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1216	20/08/1953	Schizologia - IV	Tyke	161	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1217	27/08/1953	Lexicotheria	Notlaw	114	1	"26 lights, mainly in two chains, are animals beginning with different letters of the alphabet; several positioning lights are clued."
1218	03/09/1953	Threesomes	Babs	196	1	30 italicised clues lead to 10 groups of three words each; in each group the same initial three letters are removed to form the lights (also words).
1219	10/09/1953	Magic Square	Tiber	36	4R	Numerical puzzle; grid is a 6 x 6 magic square with one square in each row already filled. For each row the other five numbers are clued in random order.
1220	17/09/1953	Simple Cypher	Recon	144	1	Answers to asterisked clues are encoded using a simple substitution cipher.
1221	24/09/1953	Penny Plain	Altair	165	4R	Grid is Times-style.
1222	01/10/1953	Aslant	Pone	144	1	"Narrative concerning Gulliver's Travels; lights are entered diagonally, some making a change of direction."
1223	08/10/1953	Form Fours	Chalba	100	4R	"Each clue leads to a 4-letter word, to be entered clockwise in four squares obtained one from the other by successive rotation of the grid; rows spell a series of animals and birds."
1224	15/10/1953	Word-Squares - VIII	Tracer	196	4R	Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell PRECEDENT. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1225	22/10/1953	Extra-Pythagorean	Croton	30	1R	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of  x? + 2y? = 3z?.
1226	29/10/1953	Displaced Persons	Peto	121	2R	Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
1227	05/11/1953	Noughts and Crosses	Ad	100	4R	"Lights are all 10-letter, with DLM clues; odd- and even-numbered letters are entered as X and O respectively."
1228	12/11/1953	Replacements	Stephanus	144	1	"Each clue defines three words, with one to be replaced in another by the third to form the light, e.g. AKIN, CAKING, LO lead to CLOG."
1229	19/11/1953	Synograms	Umber	129	8R	"Grid is circular with radial lights, clued by anagrams of synonyms."
1230	26/11/1953	Imp of Mischief - II	Pipeg	144	2	Clues are PD.
1231	03/12/1953	Mathematics	Vectis	108	4	"Grid is Times-style and uses only 10 different letters; clues are cryptograms employing them in 6 'valuations', each being used once in each type of problem (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)."
1232	10/12/1953	Alphabetical Inserts - II	Sam	143	1	"The alphabet is entered in two columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. GRANULES - GULES = RAN. "
1233	17/12/1953	Split Turns	Wray	36	3R	"Grid is triangular; clues lead to 6-letter words, whose halves (perhaps jumbled) are entered as 3-letter words clockwise in appropriate triangles, with letters on adjacent sides equal."
1234	24/12/1953	Christmas Crackers	Joxon	143	1	Clues concern Christmas.
1235	31/12/1953	A Fresh Start	Altair	158	2	Grid is Times-style.
1236	07/01/1954	Multiplication Square	Fez	25	4R	Grid is a 5 x 5 word-square; clues are to sums of letter-values and are given in code; a cryptogram provides the key.
1237	14/01/1954	"Dear Sir, ..."	Babs	225	1	Narrative comprising several 'letters' concerning the first issue of The Listener.
1238	21/01/1954	Cyclic Fours	Topher	144	1	"Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued in random sequence as letter-mixtures with redundant letters."
1239	28/01/1954	Quaternary - II	Occid	168	1	Clues are anagrams of synonyms of anagrams of the lights.
1240	04/02/1954	Head-hunting	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'IT IS NO MATTER WHICH WAY THE HEAD LIES'.
1241	11/02/1954	Wheels Within - IV	Trochos	92	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''TWAS PART CONFESSION AND THE REST DEFENCE A MADMAN'S TALE' by GEORGE CRABBE (third circle)."
1242	18/02/1954	Kings and Castles	Knight-errant	72	2R	Puzzle concerns the white squares of a 12 x 12 chessboard; lights are entered along successive moves of kings or rooks.
1243	25/02/1954	Dead Letters	Scorpio	144	4R	Each light loses its initial letter on entry; these exhaust the alphabet twice.
1244	04/03/1954	Sans Teeth	Sansine	110	1	"Lights lose the letter E, H and T on entry."
1245	11/03/1954	Whereabouts	Rekab	169	1	12 lights are clued by anagrams given in random order; 5 clues are one-word anagrams of the lights.
1246	18/03/1954	Double Check - II	Neon	180	4	Each clue defines the light and leads to two anagrams or pseudo-anagrams of it.
1247	25/03/1954	For a Rainy Day	Altair	168	2R	Grid is Times-style.
1248	01/04/1954	Ellipses	Pipeg	110	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  2a? - z? = A?,  2b? + z? = B?."
1249	08/04/1954	Twins	Tyke	120	2	"There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid."
1250	15/04/1954	Fold Here	Pone	169	1	"A diamond path, beginning at the centre of the top row, spells THIS IS THE WAY THEY DID NOT GO; a spiral route reads THIS IS OK: GO ON INWARDS: TEN COTSWOLDS (being the flock which BO-PEEP LOST)."
1251	22/04/1954	Hexa-Pentagonal - II	Croton	100	4R	"Grid comprises two overlapping hexagonal lattices such that each hexagon is divided into 4 pentagons, and contains a 4-letter word read clockwise; four 10-letter words are formed along the edges."
1252	29/04/1954	Quotimals	Trand	68	4R	Numerical puzzle; lights are repetends of periodic fractions in bases other than 10.
1253	06/05/1954	Arma Virumque Cano	Zander	144	2	Lights are entered in Latin; clues are incomplete quotations from Virgil.
1254	13/05/1954	The Blues	Wray	225	1	Unclued lights are OXFORD or CAMBRIDGE colleges.
1255	20/05/1954	It All Depends	Vectis	156	2	"Grid is Times-style; the light is an antonym of the answer, the answer itself, a synonym of the answer or an anagram of the answer according as the light's initial letter is in the range A-D, E-I, J-P or R-Z."
1256	27/05/1954	Pure Devilry - III	Ad	120	1	In each row and column lights can run on from the last square to the first; clues are PD.
1257	03/06/1954	Fragments	Babs	196	1	"Narrative concerning a parody of 'Oh, to be in England'."
1258	10/06/1954	Spiral Chequers - III	Fez	144	1	There are 20 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1259	17/06/1954	Pros and Cons - II	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1260	24/06/1954	Snatches of Song	Altair	164	2	Grid is Times-style.
1261	01/07/1954	Shakespeare Unbound - IV	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'FOOLISH YOUTH THOU SEEKST THE GREATNESS THAT WILL OVERWHELM THEE'."
1262	08/07/1954	For Bidding?	Egma	52	1	"Grid comprises a bridge hand; cards are given letter values such that AS, ..., 2S, AC, ..., 2C and AH, ..., 2H, AD, ..., 2D are in alphabetical order. Clues are given to some of the words or abbreviations formed by each player's holding in each suit."
1263	15/07/1954	Misprints - III	Stephanus	144	4	"Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters."
1264	22/07/1954	Mixed Couplets	Pipeg	144	1	"Some clues are two lines of verse by different authors with three or more consecutive letters in common, forming the light, e.g. CAMPION, CAMPBELL lead to CAMP."
1265	29/07/1954	Purely Nominal - II	Joxon	143	1	Many lights and references in clues are to be found in The Century Cyclopaedia of Names.
1266	05/08/1954	Cubes	Notlaw	48	4R	Numerical puzzle involving several cubes and 3-digit numbers  'abc'  equal to  a? + b? + c?.
1267	12/08/1954	Tricode	Recon	169	1	Lights are entered in four directions; in three cases a different simple substitution cipher is used.
1268	19/08/1954	Alphabetical Inserts - III	Sam	152	1	"Grid is circular, with 22 radial lights; 26 circular lights each gain a different letter on entry."
1269	26/08/1954	euplcaton	ancy [ffancy]	100	1	All repeated letters in clues and lights are omitted.
1270	02/09/1954	1 + 11 + 39 + 6 [Gallia Est Omnis Divisa]	Halezfax	225	1	Unclued lights apart from the title are either DEPARTMENTs or former PROVINCEs.
1271	09/09/1954	Bright and Early	Pone	144	1	Narrative concerning bird-watching.
1272	16/09/1954	Hexagrammatos - II	Duplex	126	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads WILLIAM SCHWENK GILBERT: 'BUT THE HAPPIEST HOUR A SAILOR SEES IS WHEN HE'S DOWN AT AN INLAND TOWN, WITH HIS NANCY ON HIS KNEES, YO HO! AND HIS ARM AROUND HER WAIST!'"
1273	23/09/1954	Missing Links - III	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1274	30/09/1954	Conventional	Altair	160	4R	Grid is Times-style.
1275	07/10/1954	Poetic Circles - IV	Pipeg	144	1	"Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially, with the poets forming four of the radial lights; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed."
1276	14/10/1954	'Ars est celare artem'	Babs	144	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters ART in some order.
1277	21/10/1954	Problems	Trand	11	1	Numerical puzzle concerning three types of problem.
1278	28/10/1954	28ac. [Cafe]	Notlaw	112	1	Unclued lights are the names of the ten cups of coffee drunk after dinner in the ARDENNES.
1279	04/11/1954	Unknown Quantity	ffancy	154	1	"The position of each light is not given, but the sum of its letter-values, added to the number of its position in the grid, plus or minus 10 for across or down lights respectively, appears in brackets."
1280	11/11/1954	Pierian	Hereward Wyke	98	1	"Grid comprises 14 heptagons, divided into triangles, containing 7-letter words entered clockwise. At 8 points three heptagons meet, and 6-letter words are entered in the resulting hexagons. The perimeter spells 'A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING'."
1281	18/11/1954	Schizologia - V	Tyke	161	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1282	25/11/1954	Mulberry Bush	Topher	196	1	Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer.
1283	02/12/1954	Wheels Within - V	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'AND A FEW MEN TALKED OF FREEDOM WHILE ENGLAND TALKED OF ALE' by G.K. CHESTERTON (third circle)."
1284	09/12/1954	Prime and Square	Umber	144	4R	Numerical puzzle with clues given in terms of 4 prime numbers and 4 square numbers.
1285	16/12/1954	Head-hunting - II	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WILL HIDE HIS HEAD UNDER HIS WING'.
1286	23/12/1954	Christmas Pie	Babs	256	1	Narrative comprising various poems about Christmas; perimeter spells 'AT CHRISTMAS PLAY AND MAKE GOOD CHEER FOR CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR'.
1287	30/12/1954	Split Turns - II	Wray	36	3R	"Grid is triangular; clues are quotations with 6-letter authors, whose halves (perhaps jumbled) are entered as 3-letter words clockwise in appropriate triangles, with letters on adjacent sides equal."
1288	06/01/1955	Hidden Mixtures	Pipeg	169	1	Most clues contain a themeword and a mixture of the letters of a word related to it; the light in each case is a third word related to the second by the first.
1289	13/01/1955	Word Sums - VI	Proton	143	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
1290	20/01/1955	Literary Relations	Scorpio	169	2	Clues are literary; some lights are anagrams of the answers.
1291	27/01/1955	Further Devilry - IV	Ad	119	2R	All clues are PD.
1292	03/02/1955	Aviary	Occid	156	1	"Across lights, all unclued, are birds."
1293	10/02/1955	Sumprod	Jayphanx	119	2R	Numerical puzzle with 5 nested rectangles; numbers along two pairs of adjacent edges have their sum and product both perfect squares.
1294	17/02/1955	Exit Lines	Adam	156	1	"Unclued lights are 6 Shavian characters, together with the words comprising their last lines."
1295	24/02/1955	Embedded Squares	Fudge	120	4R	"Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word-square."
1296	03/03/1955	Pros and Cons - III	Duplex	225	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1297	10/03/1955	Playfair II	Pipeg	144	1	5 lights are Playfair-coded.	Exultancy
1298	17/03/1955	Hour-glass	Zander	101	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME, AND, DEPARTING, LEAVE BEHIND US FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME'."	
1299	24/03/1955	Twins - II	Tyke	174	2	"There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid."	
1300	31/03/1955	Alphabetical Cocktail	Sam	169	1	The 26 across lights are anagrams of the answers; each begins with a different letter of the alphabet.	
1301	07/04/1955	Bird Song	Babs	116	1	"Each of the 8 down clues contains an anagram of a 10-letter British bird, the light."	
1302	14/04/1955	Third Degree	Rampersand	27	2R	Numerical puzzle with grids forming a 3 x 3 x 3 cube.	
1303	21/04/1955	Gardening &c	Pone	156	1	Clues and lights concern gardening; double border spells 'DAFFADOWNDILLIES AND COWSLIPS AND KINGCUPS AND LOVED LILIES THE PRETTY PAWNCE AND THE CHEVISAUNCE'.	
1304	28/04/1955	A Plain Puzzle	Altair	164	4R	Grid is Times-style.	
1305	05/05/1955	Shakespeare Unbound - V	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'MEN OF SLENDER REPUTATION PUT FORTH THEIR SONS TO SEEK PREFERMENT'."	
1306	12/05/1955	Knight's Tour	Gib	64	4R	"Lights are 4-letter, mainly jumbled; a knight's tour spells 'CARELESS THEIR MERITS OR THEIR FAULTS TO SCAN, HIS PITY GAVE ERE CHARITY BEGAN'."	
1307	19/05/1955	Imp of Mischief - III	Pipeg	144	1	All clues are PD.	
1308	26/05/1955	Since 1900	Pirro	37	1	"Clues are incomplete quotations; one letter is to be chosen from each missing word and entered somewhere in the grid, which then spells 'WORRYING THE CARCASE OF AN OLD SONG' by R.S. THOMAS."	
1309	02/06/1955	Cook's Tour - III	Zander	169	1	19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.	
1310	09/06/1955	Bisectors	Trand	25	1R	Numerical puzzle concerning angle bisectors and medians of triangles.	
1311	16/06/1955	Be(r)ef(t) C(l)ues	Simmo	169	1	One or two words in each clue have had one or two letters removed.	
1312	23/06/1955	The Gamut	Babs	196	1	"13 unclued lights are composers, whose initial and final letters exhaust the alphabet."	
1313	30/06/1955	Literanumeral	Crank	121	1	Any Roman numerals in lights are replaced by numbers in some way.
1314	07/07/1955	Chain Letters	Tyke	144	1	"Each across light is the first 4 letters of a 7-letter word; these form a chain with 3-letter overlaps, alternate links of which are clued."
1315	14/07/1955	Logogriphs	Topher	100	1	Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and an anagram; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1316	21/07/1955	Queer Fish	Wray	60	4R	"Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers; 9, unclued, are fish."
1317	28/07/1955	Enough to Make One Cross	Hereward Wyke	108	1	Grid is twelve 3 x 3 squares (with hyphens indicating where adjacent squares contain the same letter); lights are clued in alphabetical order merely by the sums of their letter-values.
1318	04/08/1955	Mixed Bag	Pipeg	144	1	10 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1319	11/08/1955	"Sorry, Jim; You're Out!"	Pim	225	1	"Unclued lights are misprints (single for across, double for down) of the 1954 MCC touring team in Australia; Jim McCannon is not included."
1320	18/08/1955	Swordsongs	ffancy	196	1	"Several lights are formed from the answers in some way, e.g. HONOUR AMONG THIEVES leads to THHONOURIEVES, MERRY-GO-ROUND leads to GMERRYO. Some clues are similarly treated."
1321	25/08/1955	Endless Border	Abdul	64	1	"Numerical puzzle, with border being the repetend of 1/29 in decimal notation."
1322	01/09/1955	Trios	Fudge	192	1	"26 clues are anagrams of two members of a trio, with the light being the third."
1323	08/09/1955	'Arms and the Man'	Zander	144	2	Unclued lights are items listed in P. ROGET's Thesaurus under 'Arms'.
1324	15/09/1955	FisHY	Jim	169	1	"13 unclued lights have the form ___IS___, giving substitutions used sometimes in the clues."
1325	22/09/1955	Wheels Within - VI	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'WHO THEN TO FRAIL MORTALITY SHALL TRUST BUT LIMNS ON WATER' by FRANCIS BACON (third circle)."
1326	29/09/1955	Science Fiction	Simmo	169	1	Across lights are cyclic permutations of planets or stars.
1327	06/10/1955	Composagram	Halezfax	210	1	"Clues are DLM; unclued lights, occurring as anagrams in a diary extract, are all composers."
1328	13/10/1955	Queen's Moves - II	Octavian	4	4R	Numerical puzzle in base 8.
1329	20/10/1955	Nought but Crosses	Vectis	170	2R	"All lights are 5-letter, entered in 'crosses' in such a way that adjacent squares (except within crosses) contain letters adjacent in the alphabet."
1330	27/10/1955	Alphabetical Inserts - IV	Sam	139	1	"The alphabet is entered in four columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. LUMBERED - UMBER = LED."
1331	03/11/1955	Group Terms	Pipeg	169	1	"Asterisked clues are DLM, leading to nouns whose group terms form the lights, e.g. LIONS leads to PRIDE."
1332	10/11/1955	Homonymous - II	Topher	169	1	In 38 instances the light is a homonym of the answer.
1333	17/11/1955	Closed Circuits - II	Wray	36	3R	"Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise in triangles so that first and last letters (which are the same) occupy the same position; clues are in random order within four groups."
1334	24/11/1955	Adrift	ffancy	224	1	Narrative concerning a shipwreck; rows and columns of grid have been cyclically permuted.
1335	01/12/1955	Parallelograms	Trand	12	2	Numerical puzzle involving two parallelograms ABCD in which BD trisects the angle ABC.
1336	08/12/1955	Missing Links - IV	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1337	15/12/1955	Threes Out	Babs	144	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters RAG in some order.
1338	22/12/1955	Noel	Joxon	154	1	Clues concern Christmas.
1339	29/12/1955	Hexagrammatos - III	Duplex	126	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON: THE ENGLISHMAN: 'BUT SINCE HE STOOD FOR ENGLAND AND KNEW WHAT ENGLAND MEANS, UNLESS YOU GIVE HIM BACON YOU MUST NOT GIVE HIM BEANS'."
1340	05/01/1956	Common Denominators	Simmo	169	1	"23 unnumbered definition clues have lights which are the people or places whose names are given to the objects, e.g. 'champagne' leads to SILLERY, 'blouse' leads to GARIBALDI."
1341	12/01/1956	Northern Lights - IV	Log	181	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are types of TROPE."
1342	19/01/1956	Geograms	Sam	143	1	Across lights are anagrams of the answers and are geographical names in and around Britain.
1343	26/01/1956	Bicentennial	Fecit	144	1	Narrative concerning Mozart's life.
1344	02/02/1956	Change a Letter	Pipeg	169	1	Each clue contains a single misprint; exactly the same misprint is to be made in entering the light.
1345	09/02/1956	Queen's Moves - III	Octavian	25	1	Numerical puzzle with blank grid and lights entered in base 5 along queen's moves; lights are complicated functions of given values of  n.
1346	16/02/1956	Double Six	Topher	225	1	Six letters of the alphabet are subject to a 'constant substitution among themselves' for the down lights.
1347	22/03/1956	Sub Rosa	Pone	144	1	All lights lose TH once on entry.
1348	29/03/1956	Knight Errant	Wray	64	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'POOR WANDERING ONE, THOUGH THOU HAST SURELY STRAYED TAKE HEART' - SIR W.S. GILBERT."
1349	05/04/1956	Head-Hunting - III	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'ANOTHER BRUISING OF THE HAPLESS HEAD'.
1350	12/04/1956	Aeolian	Babs	196	1	13 lights are names of winds occurring in a quotation from 'Paradise Lost'.
1351	19/04/1956	Quips and Quiddities	Odysseus	169	1	"Across lights are members of alliterative pairs; the clues, in alphabetical order of the lights, define the other halves."
1352	26/04/1956	1 Across [Enantiomorphy]	Speculator	130	1	All lights are entered MIRRORWISE.
1353	03/05/1956	Embedded Squares - II	Fudge	120	4R	"Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word-square."
1354	10/05/1956	"Logs = 69,223"	Notlaw	90	2	"Numerical puzzle; letters in clues stand for prime numbers, with lights the mantissae of the four-figure logs of the numbers clued."
1355	17/05/1956	Shakespeare Unbound - VI	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'BRIARS SHALL HAVE LEAVES AS WELL AS THORNS AND BE AS SWEET AS SHARP'."
1356	24/05/1956	Fair Exchange	Leon	100	1	"Grid is circular and represents a telephone dial; letters represented by the same digit are taken to be equivalent. Twenty-five 4-letter radial lights read inward, spelling an oxymoron in two circles, forming 5 perfect squares in the third and contributing to a word-square in the centre with their final letters."
1357	31/05/1956	Theme and Variations	Zander	143	2	"Themewords are WHARTON (STEIN, LOOS); CHERRY (PLUM, DAMSON); NUGENT (DEMISS, GLADY); BULL (INNER, MAGPIE); SINGH (TRIPSIS, ERRHINE)."
1358	07/06/1956	Hidden Mixtures - II	Pipeg	169	1	Most clues contain a themeword and a mixture of the letters of a word related to it; the light in each case is a third word related to the second by the first.
1359	14/06/1956	Pros and Cons - IV	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1360	21/06/1956	'There is no secret...'	Meringue	225	1	Unclued across and down lights are the names of riders and their horses respectively.
1361	28/06/1956	Flora	Seadog	182	1	Unclued lights are found in Brewer's under 'Flowers and Trees'.
1362	05/07/1956	Portmanteaux - II	Topher	160	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
1363	12/07/1956	Nonsense Rhymes	Ramal	166	2	"Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light."
1364	19/07/1956	Entente Cordiale	Jan	169	1	Any light or portion thereof may be treated as a French word.
1365	26/07/1956	Motley	Wray	60	4R	"Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers; 9 are Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations from their speeches in random order."
1366	02/08/1956	Wheels Within - VII	Trochos	91	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'ACT - ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT! HEART WITHIN, AND GOD O'ERHEAD!' by H.W. LONGFELLOW (third circle)."
1367	09/08/1956	Hour-glass - II	Zander	97	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'LOVE TOOK UP THE GLASS OF TIME, AND TURN'D IT IN HIS GLOWING HANDS; EVERY MOMENT, LIGHTLY SHAKEN, RAN ITSELF IN GOLDEN SANDS'."
1368	16/08/1956	Factorial Fractions	Semantikos	90	1R	"Numerical puzzle; clues are fractions, with lights being these in 'factorial notation', e.g. 31/8 = 3/1! + 1/2! + 2/3! + 1/4! is entered as 3121."
1369	23/08/1956	Overlaps	Babs	126	2R	"Each across light has 12 letters and may be split into two words in two different ways, the overlap being 2 letters in each case, e.g. MANTISSATRAP; clues define all four words."
1370	30/08/1956	How's That?	Fitzjohn	160	2	"Grid is Times-style; several answers lose NOT on entry (i.e., not out)."
1371	06/09/1956	Bridge - II	Pipeg	52	2R	"Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20)."
1372	13/09/1956	Imports and Exports	Rex	143	1	"Across clues are passages containing anagrams of commodities; lights, all foreign towns, are misprinted anagrams of these."
1373	20/09/1956	Alphabetical Inserts - V	Sam	156	1	Grid is circular; 26 radial lights are formed from the answers by inserting a different letter of the alphabet in each. Outermost and innermost circles spell 'I NEVER BREATHE ITS PURE SERENE' and 'THREE REMOVES IS AS BAD AS A FIRE'.
1374	27/09/1956	Near Misses	Simmo	169	1	"Each answer either gains or loses a letter to form the light, another word."
1375	04/10/1956	Cyclic Fives	Topher	225	1	"Each row contains three 5-letter words, written cyclically, clued in random sequence."
1376	11/10/1956	The Clock	Vectis	108	12R	"Grid represents a clock face; twelve 11-letter lights are entered around the numerals. Each clue has two parts; the first leads to the relevant number, the second to the light."
1377	18/10/1956	Triangular	Nabla	55	1	Numerical puzzle concerning triangular numbers.
1378	25/10/1956	(K)night at the Opera	Halezfax	64	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells PHILEMON AND BAUCIS - GOUNOD; PELLEAS AND MELISANDE - DEBUSSY; ARIADNE - MASSENET.
1379	01/11/1956	Sixes and Sevens	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1380	08/11/1956	Hexagrammatos - IV	Duplex	126	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads ISAAC WATTS: AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF: 'HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE IMPROVE EACH SHINING HOUR, AND GATHER HONEY ALL THE DAY FROM EVERY OPENING FLOWER'."
1381	15/11/1956	Variations on a Theme	Seadog	125	4R	Grid is five 5 x 5 squares; unclued border lights are all anagrams of TERAS.
1382	22/11/1956	Overlaps - II	Babs	143	2R	"Each across light has 13 letters and may be split into two words in two different ways, the overlap being 2 letters in each case, e.g. CONTESTRANGER; clues define all four words."
1383	29/11/1956	Heronry	Scrap	33	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning four non-right-angled triangles with integral sides and areas.
1384	06/12/1956	euplcaton - 2	ancy [ffancy]	100	1	All repeated letters in clues and lights are omitted.
1385	13/12/1956	Try Somewhere Else	Pipeg	144	2	"Each asterisked clue contains a word defining the light at the place indicated, but belongs as a whole to a light of the same length elsewhere."
1386	20/12/1956	Christmas Knight	Sugden	64	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'BE THIS GOOD FRIENDS OUR CAROL STILL: BE PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GENTLE WILL' - W.M.T.
1387	27/12/1956	No N.E.W.S. from Abroad	Egma	196	1	"Lights are geographical locations with N, E, W and S omitted; clues are countries in which they are found."
1388	03/01/1957	Treble Chance	Pone	78	1	"Squares contain 1, 2 or 3 letters; rows each give a pair of combatants, e.g. PERSEUS and GORGON; final column is filled with 1, 2 or X according to the outcome."
1389	10/01/1957	Northern Lights - V	Log	144	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are subjects of poems from which asterisked clues are quotations."
1390	17/01/1957	Green Fingers	Vectis	176	1	Clues (many being DLM) are to common names of plants; lights are the botanical names.
1391	24/01/1957	Shakespeare Unbound - VII	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell ''TIS BETTER TO BE LOWLY BORN AND RANGE WITH HUMBLE LIVERS IN CONTENT'."
1392	31/01/1957	Nodes	Seadog	169	1	Unclued lights are types of knot.
1393	07/02/1957	Cook's Tour - IV	Zander	169	2	16 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.	
1394	14/02/1957	Phases of the Moon	ffancy	196	1	Unclued lights are months of the year in different languages.	
1395	21/02/1957	Diametricode	Babs	144	2R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.	
1396	28/02/1957	Aenigma Vergilianum	Dionysius	160	4	Clues are incomplete quotations from Virgil.	
1397	07/03/1957	Mixed Tablets	Andreas	154	1	Unclued lights are names of BATTLEs.	
1398	14/03/1957	Chain Letters - II	Tyke	144	1	"Each across light is the first 4 letters of a 7-letter word; these form a chain with 3-letter overlaps, alternate links of which are clued."	
1399	21/03/1957	Playfair - III	Pipeg	144	1	Two diagonals spell 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND'; 6 unclued lights are Playfair-coded animals from the book.	Flamingo
1400	28/03/1957	Triads	Sam	144	1	"All lights are still words when either beheaded or curtailed, e.g. EASTERN; clues define all three words."	
1401	04/04/1957	Wheels Within - VIII	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'AND GENTLENESS IN HEARTS AT PEACE UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN' by RUPERT BROOKE (third circle)."	
1402	11/04/1957	False Trail	Esrom	30	1	Numerical puzzle involving differences of squares.	
1403	18/04/1957	Oh No John!	Meringue	169	1	"38 positioning clues are two-word DLM; remaining clues are to words or phrases containing JACK (omitted on entry) - these lights are entered in a spiral, in an order to be determined."	
1404	25/04/1957	Pros and Cons - V	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.	
1405	02/05/1957	Loaded Dice	Wray	96	4R	"Grid is the net of a die; each face contains four 4-letter lights arranged clockwise around shaded squares, with adjacent squares at edges containing the same letter."	
1406	09/05/1957	Missing Links - V	Zander	144	2	16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.	
1407	16/05/1957	Diametricode - II	Babs	144	2R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.	
1408	23/05/1957	All Clear	Pipeg	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are in normal order, but only 6 are numbered."	
1409	30/05/1957	"Plain, Padded, or Plush"	Mayfly	144	2	"Lights either are plain, or have an extra P or H (and are still words)."
1410	06/06/1957	A.E.I.O.	Leon	161	4	"Lights are entered letter by letter; when binary numbers are superimposed on the rows, the 1s form a grille, by which a Carrollian sorites may be read. Unclued lights are the mnemonical forms of the 19 valid moods of a syllogism."
1411	13/06/1957	Logogriphs - II	Topher	100	1	Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1412	20/06/1957	Multigrades	Tyke	81	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning five instances of pairs of 6-tuples of numbers having the same sum of first powers, the same sum of second powers, and so on up to the same sum of fifth powers."
1413	27/06/1957	Solver's Plea	Babs	225	1	Narrative asking for less complicated crosswords.
1414	04/07/1957	Alphabetical Inserts - VI	Sam	132	2R	Grid is Times-style apart from some bars; DLM clues lead to words which each require a different letter to be inserted to form the lights.
1415	11/07/1957	6s and 7s	Simmo	169	4	"Lights are 6- and 7-letter, clued in random order; most down lights are jumbled."
1416	18/07/1957	Concert Hall	Halezfax	225	1	Unclued lights are titles of symphonies.
1417	25/07/1957	Tails You Win	Pone	143	1	All lights are beheaded on entry.
1418	01/08/1957	Northern Lights - VI	Log	144	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Each light and/or clue has omitted from it EARTH, AIR, FIRE or WATER."
1419	08/08/1957	Like and Unlike	Pipeg	169	1	Across lights are antonyms of the answers; those down are associated with them.
1420	15/08/1957	Game Reserve	Topher	196	1	About half the lights lose an animal on entry.
1421	22/08/1957	Shakespeare Unbound - VIII	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'TEN THOUSAND HARMS MORE THAN THE ILLS I KNOW MY IDLENESS DOTH HATCH'."
1422	29/08/1957	Find the Link	Vectis	121	1	"Each clue defines two words, linked by the light, e.g. (HEAVENLY) BODY (GUARD)."
1423	05/09/1957	Quots	Trand	36	1R	Numerical puzzle concerning reciprocals in different bases having 6-digit repetends.
1424	12/09/1957	Head Hunting - IV	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'THIS DREADFUL POTHER O'ER OUR HEADS'.
1425	19/09/1957	Baker's Dozen	Tats	154	1	"Clues are DLM; unclued lights are composers. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights."
1426	26/09/1957	Hexagrammatos - V	Duplex	126	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: A PSALM OF LIFE: 'LET US, THEN, BE UP AND DOING, WITH A HEART FOR ANY FATE; STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING, LEARN TO LABOUR AND TO WAIT'."
1427	03/10/1957	Opera Score	Simmo	169	1	Unclued lights are operatic characters.
1428	10/10/1957	2es [Aliases]	ffancy	192	1	Unclued lights are ALIASes of Listener crossword setters.
1429	17/10/1957	Tongue-tied	Jow	169	1	"Answers to clues are words in other languages; lights are translations into English. Unclued lights are in pairs, being the translations from different languages of the same original word."
1430	24/10/1957	Treasure Hunt	Leon	144	1	"Lights, clued in random order, form a chain with 1-letter overlaps; they go in any of 8 directions and change direction once each. In the grid, between the diagonals HALFWAY and MAGINOT, appears A WHITE ELEPHANT."
1431	31/10/1957	Wheels Within - IX	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''IF THIS SHOULD STAY TO DINE' HE SAID 'THERE WON'T BE MUCH FOR US'' by LEWIS CARROLL (third circle)."
1432	07/11/1957	Four Up [Ploughwise]	Wray	130	1	"Clues are numbered, and some lights entered, BOUSTROPHEDON."
1433	14/11/1957	Tricyquads	Trand	36	2R	Numerical puzzle concerning sides of cyclic quadrilaterals in which one diagonal trisects one of the angles.
1434	21/11/1957	Theme and Variations - II	Zander	169	2	"Theme-words CHARLEMAGNE (MEGAN, RACHEL); DAVID (DAFFODIL, LEEK); ALEXANDER (HILLSBOROUGH, TUNIS); CAESAR (FUHRER, DUCE)."
1435	28/11/1957	Mainly About People	Tyke	144	2	"Grid is Times-style; across lights are all proper names, in pairs of mutual anagrams."
1436	05/12/1957	Equations	ffancy	80	1	"Each answer contains the letter U; the light is either what precedes it or what follows it, and the sum of the letter-values of the remainder is given."
1437	12/12/1957	1 Down [Amazement]	Leon	169	1	"The message DIRECT YOUR STEPS SO, THESEUS WILL LEAD YOU TO THE MINOTAUR may be traced, ending in the centre."
1438	19/12/1957	Christmas Crackery	Zander	144	2	"Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON TO ALL SOLVERS."
1439	26/12/1957	Proof Required	Andreas	195	1	Unclued lights are alcoholic drinks.
1440	02/01/1958	New Year Resolutions	Babs	225	1	Narrative containing New Year resolutions.
1441	09/01/1958	Pros and Cons - VI	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1442	16/01/1958	From A to Z	Pipeg	144	1	"13 prefixes and 13 suffixes are denoted by lower case letters, e.g. OVER = i, ER = s, so OVERTOWERS leads to iTOWsS."
1443	23/01/1958	Book-ends	Vectis	129	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; the final sentences of two books can then be traced in the grid.
1444	30/01/1958	Worldly Wise	Wray	107	1	"Grid represents a globe with N and S poles; longitudinal lights occur as hidden anagrams in two paragraphs, while equator spells AN IMAGINARY LINE."
1445	06/02/1958	"a, b"	Jaykay	14	1	"Numerical puzzle with clues and lights in base 12, with a = 10 and b = 11."
1446	13/02/1958	Snakes and Ladders	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
1447	20/02/1958	His Day	Meringue	144	1	"Asterisked clues lead to owners of dogs, with the dogs being the lights."
1448	27/02/1958	A Pencil and Paper Effort	Tyke	169	1	"18 lights, e.g. ENTERIC, SPEND, WISP, and the PENCIL and EFFORT of the title, give a code used for lights with italicised clues and for some clues."
1449	06/03/1958	Alphabetical Cocktail - II	Sam	169	1	26 across lights all begin with different letters; the words clued are anagrams of the lights without their initial letters.
1450	13/03/1958	Horatian	Leon	144	2	Clues are incomplete quotations from Horace.
1451	20/03/1958	Baker's Dozen - II	Tats	152	1	"Clues are DLM; unclued lights are US presidents. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights."
1452	27/03/1958	Who'll Buy?	Babs	225	1	Narrative consisting of advertisements.
1453	03/04/1958	Poetic Circles - V	Pipeg	157	1	"Grid is circular; 4 quotations, with words in random order, run circumferentially, with the poets forming four of the radial lights; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed."
1454	10/04/1958	Reversi	C.S.S.	25	4	Numerical puzzle; grid is a 5 x 5 square which when completed contains each digit from 1 to 5 in each row and column. Clues are the minimum numbers of 'adjacent transpositions' required to produce the numbers starting from 12345.
1455	17/04/1958	By-lines	Wray	71	2R	"Clues are quotations; lights (all 4-letter) are the authors, to be entered around numbered squares. Clues are given in random order in groups corresponding to the rows."
1456	24/04/1958	Nesting Birds	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
1457	01/05/1958	Hour-glass III	Zander	116	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'SOUND, SOUND THE CLARION, FILL THE FIFE, THROUGHOUT THE SENSUAL WORLD PROCLAIM, ONE CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIFE IS WORTH AN AGE WITHOUT A NAME'."
1458	08/05/1958	Wotsitsname?	Pone	124	1	Unclued down lights are bats suspended upside-down; title is BATS IN THE BELFRY.
1459	15/05/1958	Shakespeare Unbound - IX	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'WHERE IS ANY AUTHOR IN THE WORLD TEACHES SUCH BEAUTY AS A WOMAN'S EYE?'"
1460	22/05/1958	Red Tape	Meringue	196	1	10 unclued across lights are colours; 10 unclued down lights are words associated with them.
1461	29/05/1958	6.45	Babs	195	1	Unclued lights are ARCHERS; perimeter spells 'I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR' and ''A CLAPPED I' THE CLOUT AT TWELVE SCORE'.
1462	05/06/1958	Nines	Ramal	138	2R	Numerical puzzle; eighteen 9-digit lights are the halves of nine 18-digit numbers with the property that placing the first digit at the end halves the number.
1463	12/06/1958	Verbapennes	Notlaw	121	1	"Grid is owl-shaped; 26 birds, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, form 4 chains with 1-letter overlaps."
1464	19/06/1958	Elementary	Sam	169	1	Each square must contain an atomic symbol.
1465	26/06/1958	Bits and Pieces	Pipeg	225	1	Some clues lead to antonyms of the lights; some others to words connected to the lights by phrases of the form '____ AND ____'.
1466	03/07/1958	Modern Fates	Nut	169	1	"Unclued lights are SPINNER, KEEPER, CUTTER and certain cricketers."
1467	10/07/1958	Bidevilled	Cuth	288	2	There are two identical grids; clues are double DLM.
1468	17/07/1958	(K)night at the Proms	Halezfax	64	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'FUGUES BY BACH INTERWOVEN WITH SPOHR AND BEETHOVEN AT CLASSICAL MONDAY POPS'.
1469	24/07/1958	dy/dx and all that	Pone	143	1	Clues mainly involve mathematics.
1470	31/07/1958	Sixes and Sevens II	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1471	07/08/1958	Diametricode - III	Babs	144	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1472	14/08/1958	Numerical Order	Leon	81	2	Numerical puzzle.
1473	21/08/1958	Put It There	Jackdaw	169	4	"Each row and column contains one 5- and two 4-letter lights; clues are in groups of three, with two normal clues to 4-letter lights followed by a clue to a 5-letter light somewhere which also contains a mixture of the 13 letters."
1474	28/08/1958	Wheels Within - X	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'CONFUCIUS STOOD WHO TAUGHT THAT USEFUL SCIENCE TO BE GOOD' from TEMPLE OF FAME (third circle)."
1475	04/09/1958	Mixed Bag - II	Pipeg	143	1	13 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1476	11/09/1958	1A [On the Six Faces of a Cube]	Odif	150	1	"Grid is the net of a cube; narrative, with faces given in random order and orientation."
1477	18/09/1958	Pros and Cons - VII	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1478	25/09/1958	67D.s [OPs]	Nalon	225	1	Unclued lights are World War II military operations.
1479	02/10/1958	Trisquares	Ramal	113	2	Numerical puzzle involving the first 13 solutions of  ? n(n + 1) = m?.
1480	09/10/1958	Loaded Dice - II	Wray	96	4R	"Grid is the net of a die; each face contains four 5-letter lights reading clockwise, clued in random order, with adjacent squares at edges containing the same letter."
1481	16/10/1958	5 Down [African Wildlife]	Nut	225	1	Clues are DLM; unclued lights are specimes of African wildlife.
1482	23/10/1958	Northern Lights	Log	143	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down."
1483	30/10/1958	Crime Club	Zander	144	2	Clues in italics are anagrams of authors of detective stories; the lights are their detectives.
1484	06/11/1958	I haven't a clue	Smada	49	1	Numerical puzzle; two 7-digit lights are squares of numbers which are the hypotenuses of exactly 13 integral right-angled triangles; the remaining lights are selected from the 52 shorter sides of these triangles.
1485	13/11/1958	Poetry	Leon	178	1	"A coded passage purporting to be an extract from Captain Kidd's log is given; certain portions are underlined, and anagrams of these in order give the words to be entered in the grid, forming a message. (Title is meant to suggest solvers 'try Poe', i.e., apply the method described in his story 'The Gold Bug'.)"
1486	20/11/1958	Poles Apart	Jac	164	4	"Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper."
1487	27/11/1958	Band-box	Wray	96	4R	"Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 5-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges."
1488	04/12/1958	Bilateral	Simmo	169	1	"22 unclued lights are ordinary words which are also the names of Test cricketers, 11 each from England and Australia."
1489	11/12/1958	Deasil and Widdershins	Tickatrick	10	10R	Numerical puzzle; the 10 digits are to be entered into a wheel such that all the 10-digit numbers which can be read in either direction share common factors.	
1490	18/12/1958	Gilbertian	Babs	167	2R	"Clues are quotations from Gilbert and Sullivan; one word in the line following (or preceding, if italics are used) that given defines the light."	
1491	25/12/1958	A - B = X(mas)	Tyke	156	1	"Each clue leads to two words, whose difference forms the light. Reading diagonally gives 'LIFE STILL HATH ONE ROMANCE THAT NAUGHT CAN VARY, NOT TIME HIMSELF WHO COFFINS LIFE'S ROMANCES, FOR STILL WILL CHRISTMAS GILD THE YEAR'S MISCHANCES IF CHRISTMAS COMES AS HERE TO MAKE HIM MERRY'."	
1492	01/01/1959	Parts of Speech	ffancy	140	2	"Each light is either an anagram, an antonym, a homophone or a synonym of the word clued, depending on which part of speech it is."	
1493	08/01/1959	Theme and Variations - III	Zander	154	2	"Theme-words SPIRIT (DEEV, AFREET); SUGAR (BABE, HONEY); LEMON (SOLE, DAB); SPICE (VARIETY, LIFE); WATER (EARTH, AIR)."	
1494	15/01/1959	Capital Issue	Didi	154	1	Unclued lights are 7 countries and their capitals.	
1495	22/01/1959	Shah Mat	Pipeg	166	1	"Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 large numbers, when changed to base 4 and entered in the rows, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four knights, 2 castles, 3 bishops (all using appropriate moves)."	
1496	29/01/1959	Shakespeare Unbound - X	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'HE LOST A WIFE WHOSE BEAUTY DID ASTONISH THE SURVEY OF RICHEST EYES'."	
1497	05/02/1959	Fives	Odysseus	180	1	"Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'I HAVE FOUND FOR THIS A TRULY MARVELLOUS PROOF, WHICH THIS MARGIN IS TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN'."	
1498	12/02/1959	Classic Cricket	Rex	150	1	"Across lights are names of historical Greeks and Romans; 13 unclued lights are the scores, in Roman numerals, made in a supposed cricket match."	
1499	19/02/1959	Baker's Dozen - III	Tats	154	1	"Clues are DLM; unclued lights are playwrights. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights."	
1500	26/02/1959	Crime Cross-number	Spider	37	2	Numerical puzzle concerning a murder.	
1501	05/03/1959	Auto-suggestion	UDG 211 [Fudge]	132	1	"Grid is car-shaped. Each light is a word from which three consecutive letters have been omitted; the clue is a 'number plate' showing the discarded letters, the light-length and sum of the letter-values of the light."	
1502	12/03/1959	Four Square	Det	16	1	"Numerical puzzle; the grid represents a 4 x 4 determinant, the values of 5 of whose second-order minors are given."	
1503	19/03/1959	Today's Code	Leon	143	1	"Down clues, and top and bottom across lights, are encoded thus: the keyword (appearing diagonally) is written above a set of columns, in which are written the clue or light; the columns are then taken in the alphabetical order of the letters of the keyword."	Thursday
1504	26/03/1959	Nymphaeum	Babs	196	1	16 nymphs are clued in bold type by hints.	
1505	02/04/1959	You Pays Your Money...	ffancy	80	1R	"Clues are DLM, leading to words containing OR; either remainder is entered."
1506	09/04/1959	Pros and Cons - VIII	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1507	16/04/1959	Haplographic	Simmo	169	1	"Anything repeated in the answers appears only once in the lights, e.g. SADDUCEE leads to SADUCE, SEMSEM leads to SEM, SLEEVELESS ERRAND leads to SLEVELESERAND."
1508	23/04/1959	Treasure Chest	Wray	120	4R	"Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 6-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges. One face spells OPEN HERE; another spells EMERALDS in its perimeter."
1509	30/04/1959	Wheels Within - XI	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'STEAD OF SUPPER SHE WOULD STARE FULL HARD AGAINST THE MOON' from MEG MERRILIES (third circle)."
1510	07/05/1959	Four Phi Plus One	Pipeg	72	1	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  4? + 1 = a? + b?,  where  ?  is the sum of two triangular numbers, each of which is the product of two primes or a square."
1511	14/05/1959	Do-it-yourself Jigsaw	Jackdaw	196	1	DLM clues lead to lights to be entered in jigsaw pieces; other clues assist in positioning. The colours of the rainbow appear as unclued lights.
1512	21/05/1959	Cook's Tour - V	Zander	169	2	14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1513	28/05/1959	Metamorphoses	Leon	160	4	Grid is Times-style; clues are incomplete quotations from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'.
1514	04/06/1959	On Stated Terms	Babs	144	1	Unclued lights are nicknames for American States.
1515	11/06/1959	l2 f2 d8 h1 a1 g1 h3 j7 b1 c1 c3 n4 c2 [Boustrophedon]	Egma	140	2	Grid has been given co-ordinates; 9 across clues are provided; other lights are entered letter by letter. Reading BOUSTROPHEDON spells a quotation.
1516	18/06/1959	1D [Misnomers]	Altex	225	1	Italicised clues lead to MISNOMERS.
1517	25/06/1959	De Mortuis	Wray	60	4R	"Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers. 9 are names of famous people clued by quotations, given in random order."
1518	02/07/1959	Schizologia - VI	Tyke	132	2	Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1519	09/07/1959	Fractionary	UtdtU	158	2	Numerical puzzle; grid is Times-style. Lights are repetends of proper fractions with prime denominators in various bases.
1520	16/07/1959	Head-hunting - V	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WITH A SHAKE OF HIS POOR LITTLE HEAD'.
1521	23/07/1959	Four-fives	Jac	121	4R	"Two central 11-letter lights are clued; other lights, clued in blocks, form four 5 x 5 squares, yielding four 11-letter perimeter lights."
1522	30/07/1959	The Aesir	Pipeg	168	1	"Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 numbers, when changed to base 5 and entered twice in each row and down the central column, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four horses (entered along knight's moves), 2 women, 3 men, 4 animals (all in Norse mythology)."
1523	06/08/1959	[Transposition]	Babs	144	1	Each answer has two adjacent letters transposed on entry.
1524	13/08/1959	Making and Breaking	Jackdaw	168	1	"Each row and column has a clue leading to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word and containing the letters in sequence. If the rows are rotated cyclically until the bars at the ends of the 3-letter lights are aligned, ARTHUR ASKEY'S and ONE POUND NOTE appear in columns."
1525	20/08/1959	Alphabetical Inserts - VII	Sam	132	1	"40 clues each define two words, one of which is removed from the other to form a 3- or 4-letter word, with the sum of the letter-values given; these are entered horizonatally to form words with the letters of the alphabet (already inserted)."
1526	27/08/1959	The Djintecs Again	Vectis	154	2	Grid is Times-style; half the clues define the lights and half antonyms thereof; half of each group are entered in reverse.
1527	03/09/1959	Cyclic Fours - II	Topher	144	1	"Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued by hidden words in random sequence."
1528	10/09/1959	Mathemosaic	Tyke	72	1	Numerical puzzle with clues concerning powers of lights.
1529	17/09/1959	[Opening phrase of 'Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn']	Halezfax	225	1	Unclued lights are names of Haydn symphonies.
1530	24/09/1959	Silk-Satin	Jac	160	2	"Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper."
1531	01/10/1959	Vital to This Event	Pipeg	169	1	Right side of grid represents a map of the Levant; the names of the countries and eight towns (unclued) are entered where appropriate.
1532	08/10/1959	Shakespeare Unbound - XI	Trochos	99	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'FOR NEVER ANYTHING CAN BE AMISS WHEN SIMPLENESS AND DUTY TENDER IT'."
1533	15/10/1959	Full Board	UtdtU	64	1	"Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece."
1534	22/10/1959	Foreign Relations	Scorpio	169	1	"Unclued lights are FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER in 5 different languages."
1535	29/10/1959	Portmanteaux - III	Topher	150	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
1536	05/11/1959	Rogetic	Didi	99	11R	Grid is circular with each radial light synonymous with its successor. 16 clues have lights entered letter by letter somewhere within specified sectors.
1537	12/11/1959	Powers of Darkness	Topham	50	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning five instances of pairs of 5-tuples of numbers having the same sum of first powers, the same sum of second powers, the same sum of third powers and the same sum of fourth powers."
1538	19/11/1959	Topped and Tailed	Sam	169	1	"Across and down answers lose their initial and final letters respectively to form the lights, which are still words."
1539	26/11/1959	Subtopia	Jeffec	103	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; unused squares are blacked in. In the grid may be traced 'DEAR OLD BLOODY ENGLAND OF TELEGRAPH POLES AND TIN, SEEMINGLY SO INDIFFERENT AND WITH SO LITTLE SOUL TO WIN'."
1540	03/12/1959	Chain Letters	Jac	168	1R	Lights form an endless chain of 8-letter words with 2-letter overlaps; in most cases only the central 4-letter word is clued.
1541	10/12/1959	One Morn Ahead	Simmo	169	1	Unclued lights are locations on the moon; reading in a circle appears '(HE MADE AN) INSTRUMENT TO KNOW IF THE MOON SHINE AT FULL (OR NO)' - the title is an anagram of the bracketed words.
1542	17/12/1959	Beano	Jobri	127	1	"Grid is hexagonal; unclued lights are types of bean. Perimeter followed by most of central row spells 'NINE BEAN ROWS WILL I HAVE THERE, A HIVE FOR THE HONEYBEE' by W.B. YEATS (letters of central hexagon)."
1543	24/12/1959	Do It Yourself	Tyke	224	1	"The words SINCERE CHRISTMAS GREETING TO THE SETTERS, LISTENER ENIGMATISTS AND ALL READERS are already entered; remaining lights, all unclued, are to use only letters appearing in ONE'S CHRISTMAS A GLAD TIME."
1544	31/12/1959	Logogriphs - III	Topher	100	1	Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1545	07/01/1960	Pi Pie	Pipeg	196	1	Unclued lights are names of saints.
1546	14/01/1960	Poems by Various Hands	Babs	137	1R	"Grid is Times-style; down clues are second lines of poems, the lights being the second names of the poets."
1547	21/01/1960	Recurring Undecimals	pH7	36	1	"Numerical puzzle, with lights the repetends of various fractions in different bases."
1548	28/01/1960	Missing Links - VI	Zander	169	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1549	04/02/1960	There is no moe such	Tyke	225	2	Unclued lights are Roman emperors.
1550	11/02/1960	Enneads	Jackdaw	233	4	"All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares."
1551	18/02/1960	46 Ac. [Teddy Boys]	Zander	168	2	Unclued lights are surnames of people with Christian name EDWARD.
1552	25/02/1960	ESS OCC ONC ONL	Hal	44	4R	"All lights are 3-letter; clues concern their numerical values using the telephone dial (A, B, C = 2, D, E, F = 3 etc.), which are all different."
1553	03/03/1960	Imp of Mischief - IV	Pipeg	132	1	All clues are PD.	
1554	10/03/1960	Otiose	ffancy	140	2	"In half of the clues the second letter of each word spells the light; the remainder are double, leading to the light where indicated and another elsewhere."	
1555	17/03/1960	Crossfig	Rex Kinder	104	4R	Numerical puzzle.	
1556	24/03/1960	Ruffles Strikes Again	Vectis	80	16R	"Grid is circular and represents the discs of a combination lock, each of which is turned between the entry of successive lights, which are rivers. Three rings spell SORRY YOU'VE BEEN TROUBLED: THERE IS NOUGHT INSIDE."	
1557	31/03/1960	Cnsnnts (ooa)	Babs	144	1	All vowels are omitted from answers and listed after the clue.	
1558	07/04/1960	Northern Lights - VII	Log	196	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are representatives of groups of seven, e.g. POLYNICES, MONDAY, DOPEY."	
1559	14/04/1960	Part-Songs	Eli	169	1	Clues are anagrams of titles of Schubert songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.	
1560	21/04/1960	Wheels Within XII	Trochos	94	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''TIS NOT ENOUGH TO HELP THE FEEBLE UP BUT TO SUPPORT HIM AFTER' by W. SHAKESPEARE (third circle)."	
1561	28/04/1960	All Up	Andreas	196	1	Unclued lights are names of jockeys.	
1562	05/05/1960	Pros and Cons - IX	Duplex	169	1	Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.	
1563	12/05/1960	Foursquare	Jac	121	4R	"Two central 11-letter lights are clued; other lights, clued in blocks, form four 5 x 5 squares, yielding four 11-letter perimeter lights."	
1564	19/05/1960	A la Mode	ffancy	196	1	"Lights are entered in 4 directions; for each direction the letters A to G are to be transposed to another 'mode'. Certain diagonals spell 'ARE WE NOT FORMED, AS NOTES OF MUSIC ARE, FOR ONE ANOTHER, THOUGH DISSIMILAR'."	
1565	26/05/1960	'Who will o'er the Downs?'	Halezfax	225	1	Unclued lights are FORMER DERBY WINNERS.	
1566	02/06/1960	Playfair - IV	Pipeg	144	2	6 lights are entered Playfair-coded.	Solmizated
1567	09/06/1960	'Midsummer Daydream'	Rex	150	1	"Across lights are 22 Shakespearean characters; 15 unclued lights are the scores, in Roman numerals, made in a supposed cricket match."	
1568	16/06/1960	Knight at the Ballet	Wray	64	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ... A LOVELY APPARITION, SENT TO BE A MOMENT'S ORNAMENT'."	
1569	23/06/1960	Starting from Scratch	Jackdaw	144	1	"Grid given consists of crosses at corners of squares; in each row and column of crosses dots and dashes are to be entered, spelling clued words in Morse code, to form the bar pattern. The grid is then completed with lights clued normally, given in order in each direction."
1570	30/06/1960	Baloney	Babs	144	1	Some down clues lead to the lights and the words obtained by omitting their first and last letters; other down lights are jumbled.
1571	07/07/1960	N-E-W-S	Jac	160	4	"Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper."
1572	14/07/1960	Trihedral	Rhombus	31	3R	"Numerical puzzle with grid representing three faces of a tetrahedron; numbers down the edges are tetrahedral, while other lights are related to triangular numbers."
1573	21/07/1960	Hour-glass - IV	Zander	97	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'GIVE, YOU GODS, GIVE TO YOUR BOY, YOUR CAESAR, THE RATTLE OF A GLOBE TO PLAY WITHAL, THIS GEWGAW WORLD, AND PUT HIM CHEAPLY OFF'."
1574	28/07/1960	Auto-suggestion - II	Fudge	132	1	"Grid is car-shaped. Each light is a word from which three consecutive letters have been omitted; the clue is a 'number plate' showing the discarded letters, the light-length and sum of the letter-values of the light."
1575	04/08/1960	Artful Dodgers	Egma	196	1	Unclued lights are jumbled names of artists.
1576	11/08/1960	Square Search	Jackdaw	180	1	"The 7 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except Q and S) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, ONE BOOK TOKEN is formed by cross-referencing alphabetically the head-letters."
1577	18/08/1960	Circumnavigation	Jeffec	120	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a list of places on a world tour may be traced.
1578	25/08/1960	Jigsaw	Babs	144	1	"The grid is given in 5 pieces complete with bars, to be assembled (and no bars occur at the joins)."
1579	01/09/1960	Alternatives	Pimlico	144	4	"All clues have the form '... or ...'; in 8 of them, the two parts define words differing in a single unchecked letter - the first is entered, while the unused alternative letters spell LAUGHTER."
1580	08/09/1960	Small Change	Denarius	12	1R	"Numerical puzzle in which 10 and 11 are regarded as digits; each digit occurs once in the grid. Lights are 2-digit, representing a sum of money in shillings and pence; clues concern the number of ways of expressing the sum in 2s 6d, 2s, 1s, 6d, 3d and 1d pieces."
1581	15/09/1960	Alphabetical Cocktail - III	Sam	169	1	"The 26 across lights first have their initial letters (all different) changed, using a different new letter each time, and then are rearranged to form the clued answers."
1582	22/09/1960	Shakespeare Unbound - XII	Trochos	100	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'THE SILENCE OFTEN OF PURE INNOCENCE PERSUADES WHEN SPEAKING FAILS'."
1583	29/09/1960	Like and Unlike - II	Pipeg	196	1	Clues prefixed by two numbers lead to words of which synonyms and antonyms form the lights.
1584	06/10/1960	Spider-web	Jac	225	1	8-letter lights circulate clockwise about the centre; there are 16 positioning lights.
1585	13/10/1960	x-Finger Exercise	Spuggie	33	2	"Numerical puzzle in base 5, with each light and its reverse being prime numbers."
1586	20/10/1960	Chop Logic	Leon	392	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter in the first grid, which is then cut up and rearranged to form the second grid; this spells a sorites from Lewis Carroll's 'Symbolic Logic'."
1587	27/10/1960	AnaCyph	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD, FOR THE BLACK BAT, NIGHT, HAS FLOWN' from MAUD by TENNYSON (third circle out)."
1588	03/11/1960	International Literary Festival	Andreas	196	1	"Unclued lights are literary characters and their creators, given as joint anagrams."
1589	10/11/1960	Put It There - II	Jackdaw	169	4	"Each row and column contains one 5- and two 4-letter lights; clues are in groups of three, with two normal clues to 4-letter lights followed by a clue to a 5-letter light somewhere which also contains a mixture of the 13 letters."
1590	17/11/1960	(K)night at the Play	Wray	64	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'NOW WE SIT THROUGH SHAKESPEARE IN ORDER TO RECOGNISE THE QUOTATIONS' - O. WELLES. Clues are Shakespearean quotations and the lights their speakers.
1591	24/11/1960	Sixes and Sevens - III	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1592	01/12/1960	I haven't a clue - II	Smada	63	1	Numerical puzzle with lights being members of Pythagorean triples involving 840 as one of the smaller numbers.
1593	08/12/1960	Scene around Kew	Pipeg	169	1	Central 5 x 5 square consists entirely of Bs with QUEEN in the middle; perimeter spells 'LAUGH TO SEE THEM WHIRL AND FLEE LIKE A SWARM OF GOLDEN BEES'.
1594	15/12/1960	3 D [Triads]	Altex	225	1	"Italicised clues are anagrams of two members of a triad, with the light being the third."
1595	22/12/1960	A Christmas Story	Babs	225	1	Narrative concerning the selection of Christmas presents.
1596	29/12/1960	Treble Chance	Simmo	169	1	"Each across clue leads to a 12- or 13-letter word, whose letters are to be arranged into three words entered in the appropriate row."
1597	05/01/1961	In Other Words	ffancy	140	2	"The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means a homophone, E-G a synonym, H-M an antonym, N-O no change and P-Z an anagram."
1598	12/01/1961	1 Down 2 Across [Beheaded Composers]	pH7	110	1	"Narrative with unclued lights being composers with initial letter B removed, e.g. EETHOVEN, ACH."
1599	19/01/1961	A Thorny Problem	Jeffec	196	1	The combination TH in lights is entered as ? (thorn).
1600	26/01/1961	Fair Exchange	Recon	64	1	Six pairs of clues have a pair of words exchanged; the lights exchange a pair of letters. In each case the position of the letter exchanged corresponds to the position of the word exchanged in the clue.
1601	02/02/1961	Cook's Tour - VI	Zander	169	2	14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1602	09/02/1961	'Build Me a Pyramid'	Cheops	155	1R	Grid is the net of a pyramid; vertical lights are jumbled. Running round the outside in alternate squares and then around the base reads 'WHAT NEEDS MY SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS HONOUR'D BONES THE LABOUR OF AN AGE IN PILED STONES?' - JOHN MILTON'S EPITAPH ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
1603	16/02/1961	Alphabetical Inserts - VIII	Sam	130	1	Grid is circular with 26 radial lights formed by inserting a different letter each time into the answers.
1604	23/02/1961	Racing Columns	Argus	225	1	"15 fictitious horses' names, each consisting of two words, are clued in random order; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture. 3 of the horses also appear as columns."
1605	02/03/1961	Equations - II	Trand	30	1R	"Numerical puzzle; clues either concern triples of numbers such that their sum and that of any two of them is a square, or have the form  a? + bc = d?,  c? + ba = e?."
1606	09/03/1961	Tailpieces	Babs	160	1R	"7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (RESER)VIST, (CAUTE)RISE, (TANTA)LISM, (BRIN)DISI mean that VERMEIL leads to TRELRDM."
1607	16/03/1961	AnaCyph - II	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE PLAY'D AT CARDS FOR KISSES, CUPID PAID' from CAMPASPE by LYLY (third circle)."
1608	23/03/1961	Half and Half	Vectis	120	4R	"Each answer is 6-letter; one half is to be entered where it stands, the other elsewhere."
1609	30/03/1961	Wheels Within - XIII	Trochos	90	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'A MAN MAY FAIL IN DUTY TWICE AND THE THIRD TIME MAY PROSPER' from MORTE D'ARTHUR (third circle)."
1610	06/04/1961	Astiac	Jeffec	93	1	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered letter by letter. From Input to Output may be traced 'SEEKING A WAY, AND STRAYING FROM THE WAY, NOT KNOWING HOW TO FIND THE OPEN AIR, BUT TOILING DESPERATELY TO FIND IT OUT'."
1611	13/04/1961	Snakes and Ladders - II	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
1612	20/04/1961	The Torn Page	Cheops	160	2	Grid is Times-style; clues have been cut in half and rejoined in random order.
1613	27/04/1961	Bandbox - II	Wray	120	4R	"Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 6-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges."
1614	04/05/1961	"The 17, 13 [Poets Laureate]"	Scorpio	169	1	Unclued lights are the 17 POETS LAUREATE; many clues are incomplete quotations.
1615	11/05/1961	H.C.F.s	ffancy	81	4	Clues are double DLM; the letters common to both answers form the light.
1616	18/05/1961	Bird's Eye	Babs	210	1	Narrative about a species of bird; bar pattern of grid resembles it.
1617	25/05/1961	Wanderer: On the Square	Chabon	64	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'EMPEROR, WHO, BUSIED IN HIS MAJESTY, SURVEYS THE SINGING MASONS BUILDING ROOFS'."
1618	01/06/1961	Test-paper	Nut	169	1	Across lights are all players of INTERNATIONAL CRICKET (unclued).
1619	08/06/1961	Bi-Scalar	Pipeg	64	1	"Numerical puzzle, with solutions to the clues correct in base 7 and base 9. Each letter in the clues stands for one number in each base (the numbers may or may not be the same)."
1620	15/06/1961	De Mortuis - II	Wray	60	4R	"Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers. 9 are names of famous people clued by quotations, given in random order."
1621	22/06/1961	The 'Hill'	Jeffec	104	1	"Grid represents the Sussex coastline; lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'BARE SLOPES WHERE CHASING SHADOWS SKIM, AND THROUGH THE GAPS REVEALED BELT UPON BELT THE WOODED, DIM BLUE GOODNESS OF THE WEALD'."
1622	29/06/1961	Fives - II	Odysseus	180	1	"Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'ERRORS, LIKE STRAWS, UPON THE SURFACE FLOW; HE WHO WOULD SEARCH FOR PEARLS MUST DIVE BELOW'."
1623	06/07/1961	Crescent	Thor	169	1	"Italicised clues contain hidden words, whose 'fully-grown' forms are to be entered, e.g. LEATHERJACKET leads to DADDY-LONG-LEGS, LEVERET leads to HARE."
1624	13/07/1961	Cyclic Fours - III	Topher	144	1	"Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued by hidden words in random sequence."
1625	20/07/1961	"A maze, indeed"	Jac	210	1	"Clues lead to Shakespearean characters, forming an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps; 9 positioning lights assist in deciding the starting point."
1626	27/07/1961	Tailpiece - II	Babs	178	1	"7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (HELSIN)GFORS, (PIN)AFORE, (ROQU)EFORT mean that SETTEES leads to GAEEAAG."
1627	03/08/1961	Theme and Variations - IV	Zander	169	2	"Themewords CLUBS (REFORM, SAVAGE); DIAMONDS (KOH-I-NOR, CULLINAN); HEARTS (CELTIC, RANGERS); SPADES (HARTS, SPITS)."
1628	10/08/1961	Embedded Squares - III	Fudge	120	4R	"Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word-square."
1629	17/08/1961	Swiss Navy	ffancy	154	1	Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-SHIP'.
1630	24/08/1961	Heads and Tails	Pimlico	144	4	Each clue is two words: 8 define the light and the light less its tail; 8 define the light and the light less its head. The 8 heads and 8 tails may be arranged to form two words.
1631	31/08/1961	Part-Songs - II	Eli	169	1	Clues are anagrams of titles of Schubert songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.
1632	07/09/1961	Knight at the Proms - II	Wray	64	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells CENERENTOLA - ROSSINI; BRIGG FAIR - DELIUS; MASKARADE - NIELSEN; EROICA - BEETHOVEN.
1633	14/09/1961	For the Subtile Man	Tyke	63	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning 5 Pythagorean triples of the form  a, a+1, 5b."
1634	21/09/1961	Habitats	Cheops	225	1	"15 incomplete quotations lead to nicknames for football clubs, whose towns are the lights."
1635	28/09/1961	Even More Elementary	Sam	195	1	Each square is to contain an atomic symbol; each element up to atomic number 92 is used at least once.
1636	05/10/1961	Homonymous - III	Topher	169	1	39 lights are homophones of the answers.
1637	12/10/1961	Bookworm	Jeffec	121	1	"Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'THEY HAVE IN ENGLAND A COIN THAT BEARS THE FIGURE OF AN ANGEL STAMPED IN GOLD, BUT THAT'S INSCULP'D UPON; BUT HERE AN ANGEL IN A GOLDEN BED LIES ALL WITHIN'."
1638	19/10/1961	Jog-trot	Jac	164	2	"Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper."
1639	26/10/1961	Polyglottal Tetraptych	Cheops	198	1	"Grid is in 4 parts; 24 incomplete quotations lead to words to be translated into French, German, Italian or Latin to form the unclued lights."
1640	02/11/1961	Three-in-hand	ffancy	108	1	"In each square the letter from the across light is entered in the top right-hand corner, that from the down light in the bottom left-hand corner, and the sum of the two in the middle; these, taken diagonally, spell 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, GUNPOWDER TREASON AND PLOT; WE KNOW NO REASON WHY GUNPOWDER TREASON SHOULD EVER BE FORGOT'."
1641	09/11/1961	Enneads - II	Jackdaw	233	4	"All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares."
1642	16/11/1961	Five-powered Square	Mathematica	100	1	Numerical puzzle involving five 10-digit fifth powers.
1643	23/11/1961	Astronomical	Pipeg	182	1	"Narrative concerning astronomy; the combinations IN, TO and US are omitted wherever they occur."
1644	30/11/1961	Otiose - II	ffancy	140	2	"Half the clues are double, with one part a single word and the other a DLM clue; the first light is entered where indicated, the second elsewhere. In the remaining clues the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th etc. letters spell the lights."
1645	07/12/1961	Logogriphs - IV	Topher	100	1	Ten 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1646	14/12/1961	36-19 [Winter Sports]	Halezfax	225	1	Unclued lights are WINTER SPORTS resorts in Austria and Switzerland.
1647	21/12/1961	Christmas Crackery - II	Zander	144	2	"Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell SEASONAL SALUTATIONS FROM ZANDER TO ALL."
1648	28/12/1961	Poetaster	Babs	225	1	Narrative comprising 7 'poems'.
1649	04/01/1962	Highbrows	Jeffec	225	1	Unclued lights are fells in the Lake District.	
1650	11/01/1962	Head-hunting - VI	Zander	169	2	"The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'I'M COMING, FOR MY HEAD IS BENDING LOW'."	
1651	18/01/1962	Threes and Fours	Ramal	104	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues are linear functions of three numbers, one a power of 3, one a power of 4, and one either  m  or  p  where the sum of the first  m  cubes is the fourth power of  p."	
1652	25/01/1962	21-Plus	Leon	144	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; read in a spiral, the grid spells A FLAVESCENT OOIDAL OFFSPRING OF A FRUGIFEROUS ARBOREAL GROWTH, WITH ASTRINGENT SUCCUS; RELISHED BY CARPOPHAGOUS ATHLETES AND ICHTHYOPHAGISTS ON PLEURONECTES PLATESSA. The answer's a lemon!"	
1653	01/02/1962	Per Ardua Ultra Astra	Pipeg	169	1	"Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 large numbers, when changed to base 6 and entered in the rows, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four Paladins (along knight's moves), 2 demons, 3 horses, 4 dogs and 5 planets."	
1654	08/02/1962	Square Search - II	Jackdaw	180	1	"The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except Q and S) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (S)ERGEANT-MAJOR is formed by cross-referencing alphabetically the head-letters."	
1655	15/02/1962	Honeycomb	Jac	216	1R	"Grid comprises hexagons superimposed on a square lattice; top and bottom rows, and leftmost and rightmost columns, are regarded as joined together. Each hexagon contains a 6-letter word entered clockwise, with letters agreeing at edges."	
1656	22/02/1962	Honours Even	Badger	196	1	Unclued lights are theatrical dames and knights.	
1657	01/03/1962	Tailpiece - III	Babs	184	1	"7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (SPATTER)DASH, (ENTHUS)IASM, (HANDC)LASP, (SPEAK)EASY mean that DIDDLED leads to HMHHPYH."	
1658	08/03/1962	EWQREPTB ZF [Westward Ho]	ETPG [Wray]	195	1	Clues are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it; unclued lights are places in Devon and Cornwall.	Buckfastleigh
1659	15/03/1962	Missing Roman Numerals	Nut	169	1	"Lights lose all instances of O, I, V, X, L, C, D, M on entry."	
1660	22/03/1962	Straight	Egma	144	4	Normal.	
1661	29/03/1962	Chop and Change	Rhombus	36	2	"Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit, form a chain in which each is obtained from its predecessor by alternately permuting its digits and taking the sum of its divisors (excluding itself)."	
1662	05/04/1962	Classified Lights	Jeffec	144	2	"Clues are presented in 3 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong."	
1663	12/04/1962	Devilled Cubes	Ad	95	4R	Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube with blacked cells; clues are PD.	
1664	19/04/1962	AnaCyph - III	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'METHINKS I GAZE UPON THEE NOW AS ON A SERPENT IN HIS AGONIES' from LOVE by TENNYSON (third circle)."	
1665	26/04/1962	Simple	Thor	169	1	"Italicised clues contain hidden words which are simples, the sources of the vegetable drugs which are the lights."
1666	03/05/1962	Alphabetical Cocktail - IV	Sam	156	1	"The 26 across lights all begin with different letters; these are removed and the letters rearranged to form the lights, which also all begin with different letters."
1667	10/05/1962	Clock Patience	Leon	52	1	"Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately."
1668	17/05/1962	The Great Divide	Pipeg	196	1	Unclued lights are all to do with Australia; those more than 6 letters long are split in two and have other letters interpolated.
1669	24/05/1962	Power Sums	Trand	48	1	Numerical puzzle; clues are 5-tuples of fractions in three groups. In the first group the sum is equal to the sum of the squares; in the second the square of the sum is equal to the sum of the cubes; in the third the cube of the sum is equal to the sum of the fourth powers.
1670	31/05/1962	Phantasmagoria	Simmo	169	1	"Across lights and 1 Down (all unclued) are a collection of fantastic items, taken mostly from myth and legend."
1671	07/06/1962	The Wright Map	Jeffec	144	1	Grid is circular; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'HE DOES OBEY EVERY POINT OF THE LETTER THAT I DROPPED TO BETRAY HIM: HE DOES SMILE HIS FACE INTO MORE LINES THAN ARE IN THE NEW MAP WITH THE AUGMENTATION OF THE INDIES' - SHAKESPEARE.
1672	14/06/1962	Dramatic (K)night	Aeschylus	64	1	Clues are incomplete quotations from Aeschylus; lights are entered letter by letter in Greek. In the grid a quotation may be traced.
1673	21/06/1962	Coded Pairs	Pimlico	144	4	"12 unclued 4-letter lights comprise 6 words and their coded forms, using a simple substitution cipher."
1674	28/06/1962	AnaCyph - IV	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS' by W. SHAKESPEARE (third circle), 6 of whose characters are unclued lights."
1675	05/07/1962	Missing Links - VII	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1676	12/07/1962	Wall Flowers	Egma	119	1R	"Grid is a wall of bricks; lights are entered, with letters in random order, in and around numbered bricks, which form five 7-letter plants; six other plants appear around the perimeter."
1677	19/07/1962	Knight at Table	Wray	64	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'BIRDS IN THEIR LITTLE NESTS AGREE WITH CHINAMEN BUT NOT WITH ME' - BELLOC, 'ON FOOD'."
1678	26/07/1962	A Matter of Conscience	ffancy	120	1	"Narrative, with certain checked squares containing more than one letter."
1679	02/08/1962	Ring the Changes	Rhombus	125	1R	"Numerical puzzle; each column is a 5-digit number, obtained from its neighbour by interchanging two digits."
1680	09/08/1962	Channel Pilot	Jeffec	100	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'THE GOODWINS, I THINK THEY CALL THE PLACE; A VERY DANGEROUS FLAT, AND FATAL, WHERE THE CARCASSES OF MANY A TALL SHIP LIE BURIED'."
1681	16/08/1962	Wheels Within - XIV	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'DREAM WHILE THE INNUMERABLE CHOIR OF DAY WELCOME THE DAWN' from NIGHTINGALES (third circle)."
1682	23/08/1962	Musical Switch	Strebor	169	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; a chain of 30 composers, written alternately forwards and backwards and with 1-letter overlaps, forms a spiral."
1683	30/08/1962	Middle Ages	Babs	169	1	The leading diagonal contains the final letters of 18 lights ending in -AGE.
1684	06/09/1962	[12 23] or [21 32] [dominoes]	Pipeg	30	5R	"Grid is pentagonal, made up of irregular quadrilaterals and pentagons. Clues are double or ordinary DLM; lights, entered one per region, are pairs of consecutive letters in the answers. Adjacent regions contain pairs arranged as in the title, e.g. RE, ET or AT, RA."
1685	13/09/1962	Tourism for Beginners	Mendax	132	1	"Across lights are clued by incomplete rhymes involving names of towns (which are not given), e.g. 'I'm not such a ______ as to denigrate (LEICESTER)' leads to JESTER."
1686	20/09/1962	Assemblage Line	Jac	180	1	"Clues lead to pairs of words, the first being the noun of assemblage of the second. The second words form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps."
1687	27/09/1962	Hour Glass - V	Zander	92	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF YEARS THERE CAME TO THE MAKING OF MAN TIME WITH A GIFT OF TEARS, GRIEF WITH A GLASS THAT RAN'."
1688	04/10/1962	Circumbendibus	Fudge	168	1	33 lights form a chain with 2-letter overlaps; clues to several positioning lights are given.
1689	11/10/1962	Bi-Devilled - II	Cuth	288	1	There are two identical grids; clues are double DLM.
1690	18/10/1962	'Honi Soit ...'	Jeffec	139	1	"Grid is shield-shaped; the bordure reads 'WHEN FIRST THIS ORDER WAS ORDAINED, MY LORDS, KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER WERE OF NOBLE BIRTH'."
1691	25/10/1962	'How Beautiful They Are!'	Babs	169	1	"Unclued lights are 9 objects named after Lords, e.g. WELLINGTON."
1692	01/11/1962	All Done By Mirrors	Nabla	57	1R	Numerical puzzle; clues give the possible integral object- and image-distances for a mirror of a particular radius of curvature.
1693	08/11/1962	Squares and Ladders	Pipeg	159	1	"Clues to 9 positioning lights are given; other lights are (mainly) unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are four 5 x 5 word-squares."
1694	15/11/1962	Sixes and Sevens - IV	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1695	22/11/1962	Outer Spaces	Simmo	196	1	Unclued lights around the perimeter of the gridare planetary satellites within the solar system.
1696	29/11/1962	Portmanteaux - IV	Topher	160	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
1697	06/12/1962	Tetrahedral	Rhombus	41	4R	Numerical puzzle; grid forms four sides of a pyramid. Lights down edges are pyramidal numbers; other lights are related squares.
1698	13/12/1962	Beaune for Dog	Babs	196	1	"Italicised clues lead to alcoholic lights, those down being quotational blunders, e.g. '________ makes the heart grow fonder' leads to ABSINTHE."
1699	20/12/1962	Transformation Scene	Tyke	240	1	Letters in across lights falling in the four unbarred columns are changed to form new words; the columns read SINCERE CHRISTMAS GREETING TO ALL THE LONG-SUFFERING YET FORGIVING SOLVERS.
1700	27/12/1962	Double Top	Sam	144	1	"Across clues each lead to two words with the same initial letter, different in each case; these are removed and the remainders adjoined to form the lights, e.g. LENT, LICE lead to ENTICE."
1701	03/01/1963	Bilingual	Nut	121	1	Each light is also a word in Latin; each clue contains a translation of the Latin word.
1702	10/01/1963	Fives - III	Odysseus	180	1	Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'FAMILIES ARE SO MIXED NOWADAYS: INDEED AS A RULE EVERYBODY TURNS OUT TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE'.
1703	17/01/1963	A Worthy Pioner	Jeffec	110	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; a route on the underground can then be traced in the grid.
1704	24/01/1963	Space-saver - II	Babs	72	1	"Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. ZOOZOO leads to Z O O, HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY leads to H/P I G G L E D Y."
1705	31/01/1963	Cook's Tour - VII	Zander	169	2	13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1706	07/02/1963	The One That Got Away	Topher	169	1	"56 answers contain a fish, to be removed on entry."
1707	14/02/1963	Observations	Trand	72	1R	Numerical puzzle; clues concern rational approximations to solutions of the equation  x? + y? = 100  (to be discovered) for integral values of  x.
1708	21/02/1963	Swansdown	Jac	121	1	"26 clues lead to 5-letter words, to be entered in such a way as to make twelve 11-letter lights (including SHAKESPEARE in the central column)."
1709	28/02/1963	Leo Kim's Lecture	Doghouse	64	1	"Ten authors of quotations are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced PERSUASION, AUSTEN; SILAS MARNER, ELIOT; MOBY DICK, MELVILLE; HARD TIMES, DICKENS."
1710	07/03/1963	Associations	Nut	169	2	"Each light is part of a phrase; each clue is DLM, and includes the remainder of the phrase for the diametrically opposite light."
1711	14/03/1963	QTTNSFRMSHKSPR	Phyz	534	1	"Clues are quotations from Shakespeare with vowels omitted, containing the word or words to be entered vertically. Top and bottom rows of grid spell LIFE IS BUT A MELANCHOLY FLOWER and LIFE IS BUTTER MELON CAULIFLOWER; middle row is NEITHER TOO GLOOMY NOR YET TOO HOPEFUL, and two other rows spell names of Shakespearean characters."
1712	21/03/1963	Roundabout	Jeffec	182	1	"Unclued lights, arranged in a spiral, are artificial satellites."
1713	28/03/1963	Left oVers	Smada	64	1	"Numerical puzzle with most lights clued by their remainders modulo  n  for two or three values of  n. All lights are pentagonal numbers, enabling remaining corner of grid to be completed."
1714	04/04/1963	Ding Dong	Chabon	128	1	"Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are entered letter by letter and then transposed to another grid where a knight's tour spells 'THEN BEFORE BREAKFAST, DOWN TOWARD THE SEA I RAN ALONE MONARCH OF MILES OF SAND'."
1715	11/04/1963	"Same Again, Please!"	Peto	220	1	"24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consecutive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. BR(ANCHI)AE, TE(ACHIN)G lead to CHINACHINA."
1716	18/04/1963	Theme and Variations - V	Zander	169	2	"Themewords HILARY (ILARIO, HILAIRE); EASTER (EGG, BONNET); TRINITY (ORIEL, KEBLE); MICHAELMAS (MAILE, CHASM)."
1717	25/04/1963	Nesting Birds - II	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
1718	02/05/1963	Logogriphs - V	Topher	108	1	Twelve 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and two anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1719	09/05/1963	The Serpent	Egma	124	1	"Grid is spiral, representing a serpent; lights are 5-letter and jumbled. Perimeter spells 'CLOSE THE SERPENT SLY INSINUATING WOVE WITH GORDIAN TWINE HIS BRAIDED TRAIN' from PARADISE LOST (at the centre)."
1720	16/05/1963	Channel Pilot - II	Jeffec	135	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'TO SOUTHAMPTON: ... THENCE TO FRANCE SHALL WE CONVEY YOU SAFE, AND BRING YOU BACK, CHARMING THE NARROW SEAS TO GIVE YOU GENTLE PASS; FOR, IF WE MAY, WE'LL NOT OFFEND ONE STOMACH'."
1721	23/05/1963	Monumentum aere perennius	Sacerdos	225	1	Clues are incomplete quotations from Horace.
1722	30/05/1963	Cross-Doubles	Jac	285	1	"Across lights are alternative descriptions of Shakespearean characters, clued in random order and with clues containing letter-mixtures of the characters."
1723	06/06/1963	Snakes and Ladders - III	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
1724	13/06/1963	Shuffling the Pack	Adam	36	4R	"Numerical puzzle, with clues concerning the number of interleaving shuffles required to return a pack of a certain number of cards to its original state."
1725	20/06/1963	Striptease	Wray	80	1R	Lights are entered letter by letter; the columns formed are then to be rearranged so that reading boustrophedon gives 'ATTEMPT THE END AND NEVER STAND TO DOUBT NOTHING IS SO HARD BUT SEARCH WILL FIND IT OUT'.
1726	27/06/1963	As the Highwayman Said	Babs	196	1	18 clues worded in the fashion of the title lead to lights which are British place-names.
1727	04/07/1963	Change Partners	Badger	182	1	"22 clues (mainly incomplete quotations) lead to well-known business names, whose partners are to be entered in places to be discovered."
1728	11/07/1963	Scytale	Cheops	189	2	"Grid is Times-style; perimeter letters form a scytale, reading 'THE ONE WHICH REMAINS MUST BE THE TRUTH'. 7 clues, indicated by italicised comments in brackets, lead to words linked to 4 (the size of the scytale) by references to Sherlock Holmes."
1729	18/07/1963	Box Search	Jeffec	96	1	"Grid is the net of a cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'SAY ... HOW FAR IT IS TO THIS SAME BLESSED MILFORD; AND, BY THE WAY, TELL ME HOW WALES WAS MADE SO HAPPY AS T'INHERIT SUCH A HAVEN'."
1730	25/07/1963	Squares and Ladders - II	Pipeg	108	1	"8 positioning lights are clued; other lights are unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are two 4-letter and two 5-letter word-squares."
1731	01/08/1963	Highlands and Islands	Eli	169	1	Narrative concerning a Scottish holiday; unclued lights (all Scottish lochs and islands) appear as letter-mixtures.
1732	08/08/1963	Alphabetical Inserts - IX	Sam	152	1	"Grid is circular; 26 circumferential lights, all proper names, are formed by inserting a letter, different each time, in the answers."
1733	15/08/1963	Dog Days - II	Babs	225	1	Narrative in Latin concerning a man's life-history.
1734	22/08/1963	Fractionary - II	UtdtU	93	3R	"Numerical puzzle; grid is circular, with radial lights the 5-digit repetends of fractions with prime denominators, clued by the numerators, in varying bases up to 10."
1735	29/08/1963	Fraudful	Simmo	196	1	Unclued lights are artificial flies.
1736	05/09/1963	Wheels Within - XV	Trochos	93	1	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'WE GROPE TOGETHER AND AVOID SPEECH GATHERED ON THIS BEACH' by THOMAS S. ELIOT (third circle)."
1737	12/09/1963	Athruz	Jac	144	1	Answers are entered with letters in alphabetical order.
1738	19/09/1963	1413 and all that [Unknown Quantity]	Loki	169	1	"Unclued lights are words substituted in forgetfulness for things, e.g. THINGUMAJIG."
1739	26/09/1963	Novel Names	Bap	196	2	Most clues lead to names of novels; the lights are authors or characters.
1740	03/10/1963	Fortuna Favet Fortibus	Jeffec	96	1	"Grid is the net of a cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'TENDER-HANDED STROKE A NETTLE AND IT STINGS YOU FOR YOUR PAINS; GRASP IT LIKE A MAN OF METTLE, AND IT SOFT AS SILK REMAINS'."
1741	10/10/1963	The Torn Page - II	Cheops	158	2	Grid is Times-style; clues have been cut in half and rejoined in random order.
1742	17/10/1963	Cordial Entente	Waterloo	169	2	Across clues and answers are in English; those down are in French. The lights are translations of the answers.
1743	24/10/1963	The Following Have Arrived - III	Babs	85	4R	"Lights (all 11-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips."
1744	31/10/1963	Clock Patience - II	Leon	52	1	"Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately."
1745	07/11/1963	Twilight Twist	Jac	144	1	"Most lights are formed from the answers by replacing CON by PRO, OFF by ON etc., still forming words."	
1746	14/11/1963	Crash-Dive	Jeffec	125	1	"Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'WHAT THOUGH THE MAST BE NOW BLOWN OVERBOARD, THE CABLE BROKE, THE HOLDING ANCHOR LOST AND HALF OUR SAILORS SWALLOW'D IN THE FLOOD? YET LIVES OUR PILOT STILL'."	
1747	21/11/1963	A Rescue!	Fang	225	1	"Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; 27 other quotations, in random order, give Shakespearean characters as lights."	
1748	28/11/1963	P-D	Pipeg	144	2	All clues are PD.	
1749	05/12/1963	Hour Glass - VI	Zander	97	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'DOES THE EAGLE KNOW WHAT IS IN THE PIT OR WILT THOU GO ASK THE MOLE? CAN WISDOM BE PUT IN A SILVER ROD, OR LOVE IN A GOLDEN BOWL?'"	
1750	12/12/1963	All Change	Trand	48	1R	"Numerical puzzle, with clues of the form  (f, N, r) = N',  meaning that there are  f  factors, with product  N,  which when regarded as being in base  r  have product  N'  (in base 10)."	
1751	19/12/1963	Key-phrase Cipher	Leon	169	4R	"Lights are entered letter by letter; first column and row spell THE SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE, which encodes the letters A to Z outside the grid. The remainder of the puzzle is then a coded message from prison."	
1752	26/12/1963	Christmas Crackery - III	Zander	144	2	"Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell CRUCIVERBAL FELICITATIONS FROM ZANDER."	
1753	02/01/1964	Carrefour	Jac	125	4	"Grid is cross-shaped. All clues have 5-letter answers, some of which combine to form 10- or 15-letter lights; clues are in random order, but are alternately across and down."	
1754	09/01/1964	Overlaps - II	Babs	169	1	"3 concentric squares consist of chains of 6- and 8-letter words, overlapping by half their length, defined in clockwise order."	
1755	16/01/1964	YRUSMVMOQJHRU [Confederation]	Wray	196	1	Clues are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it; unclued lights are Swiss cantons.	Switzerland
1756	23/01/1964	Nonsense rhymes - II	Ramal	163	2	"Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light."	
1757	30/01/1964	Dodecahedron	Jeffec	72	1	Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell ONE BOOK TOKEN) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.	
1758	06/02/1964	No 23 [RTC = Articles]	ffancy	64	1	All lights lose ARTICLES from various languages on entry. Half the clues are normal and lack articles; the rest are DLM and contain articles corresponding to those omitted.	
1759	13/02/1964	Weightless	Pipeg	196	1	"19 lights are formed from the answers by inserting or adding a weight, e.g. CA-LIBRA-TES."	
1760	20/02/1964	8 98 515053 [s is Eleven]	Rhombus	88	1	"One grid has numerical lights; the other, spelling MATHEMATICS IS THE ETHEREALIZATION OF COMMON SENSE, is a decoded version of the first, where the code replaces each letter by its remainder modulo  s."	
1761	27/02/1964	Like little boys ...	Leon	169	1	"Unclued lights each contain a silent letter, e.g. CALM, SWORD."
1762	05/03/1964	Sixes and Sevens - V	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1763	12/03/1964	Amoeba	Jac	125	4	"Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares, with the central one meeting each of the others at one square. All answers are 5-letter, with clues grouped in random order; four 10-letter lights are formed."
1764	19/03/1964	Association of ideas	Eris	169	1	"Each light is associated with the answer by a phrase '... of ...', e.g. THUMB leads to RULE."
1765	26/03/1964	"Listen, Mum"	Jeffec	196	1	22 unclued lights have a silent initial consonant.
1766	02/04/1964	Synant	Ramal	164	4	"Grid is Times-style; lights are clued by synonyms or antonyms in lines of doggerel, in random order but symmetrically paired."
1767	09/04/1964	Platform Party	Zander	169	2	Unclued lights are names of executioners.
1768	16/04/1964	Dove-tail	Jac	144	4	"Grid is divided into four identical pieces, splitting some lights; clues are given to the words in each piece."
1769	23/04/1964	Merely players	Sam	169	1	Across clues are Shakespearean quotations; the lights are anagrams of the speakers.
1770	30/04/1964	Mathematical ladders	Leon	25	1	Numerical puzzle concerning 'ladder' problems.
1771	07/05/1964	"x and y [Tarrant, Roding]"	Jeffec	176	1	Unclued lights across are Dorset villages beginning with TARRANT; those down are Essex villages ending with RODING.
1772	14/05/1964	Find the lady	Badger	196	1	"30 clues in capitals are anagrams of an author and one of his or her female characters, the latter being the lights."
1773	21/05/1964	Fantastic Symphony	Eli	169	1	Italicised clues lead to names of symphonies; in each case one letter is to be replaced with the key of the work.
1774	28/05/1964	Cyclic fours and fives	Topher	180	1	"Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For one light in each row the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue; in each column the clues are definitions in one sentence."
1775	04/06/1964	Tout court	Leon	196	1	Unclued lights can be prefixed or suffixed by COURT.
1776	11/06/1964	Pentominoes	Rhombus	60	1	"Numerical puzzle in which the 12 pentominoes, each containing the digits 1 to 5, are fitted into a rectangle; the down lights are all products of five primes."
1777	18/06/1964	Isosceles	Vectis	116	1R	"Each clue defines three words, to be entered so as to form a right-angled isosceles triangle."
1778	25/06/1964	27 ac. [Bible]	Rev.	196	1	Unclued lights are names of BIBLEs.
1779	02/07/1964	V-a-V's	Jac	121	1R	Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares forming a V shape; clues are given in largely random order.
1780	09/07/1964	Out of this world	Jeffec	141	1	Grid is circular; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'IT IS NOT AS THOUGH MAN HAD ANY USE FOR THE MOON. WHAT GOOD WOULD THE MOON BE TO MEN? EVEN OF THEIR OWN PLANET WHAT HAVE THEY MADE BUT A BATTLE-GROUND AND THEATRE OF INFINITE FOLLY?'
1781	16/07/1964	Second Parties	Mass	225	1	20 unclued lights are second names in BRITISH AND IRISH PUBLISHING FIRMS; first names are hidden as anagrams in a piece of prose. Clues are DLM.
1782	23/07/1964	Swordsongs - II	ffancy	154	1	"Several lights are formed from the answers in some way, e.g. MOTHER-IN-LAW leads to LAMOTHERW, HUNCHBACK leads to HCNUH."
1783	30/07/1964	Knight at the Proms - III	Wray	64	2	Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells SATYRICON - IRELAND; VYSEHRAD - SMETANA; PROVENCALE - MILHAUD; ROMANTIC - BRUCKNER.
1784	06/08/1964	Tri-scalar	Pipeg	64	1	"Numerical puzzle; with solutions across correct in base 9 and base 11, and those down in base 8 and base 9. Each letter in the clues stands for one number in each base (the numbers may or may not be the same)."
1785	13/08/1964	Theme and variations - VI	Zander	169	2	"Themewords STARR (SEDGE, RUSH); HARRISON (WILLIAM, AINSWORTH); MCCARTNEY (MERCY, CANT); LENNON (HUTTON, NOT)."
1786	20/08/1964	Happy families	Babs	240	1	"Some lights occur in names of purported families, e.g. ' Mr. Steer the PILOT and his daughter BERTHA'."
1787	27/08/1964	Portmanteaux - V	Topher	165	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
1788	03/09/1964	Science fantasy	Simmo	169	1	Across lights are cyclic permutations of creatures.
1789	10/09/1964	3-in-1	Jeffec	192	1	"Grid is an isometric drawing of a solid body with crosswords on three faces; the first and last clue in each group refer to the particular puzzle, but others need not."
1790	17/09/1964	Travelogue	ffancy	180	1	"Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; grid covers a map of the world. Narrative, with unclued lights being the names of places situated in their initial squares."
1791	24/09/1964	Follow-my-leader	Jac	210	1	"Clues lead to words beginning with BLACK, BROWN, GREEN, GREY, ROSE or WHITE; only the remainder is entered, and these form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps."
1792	01/10/1964	Sets for amusement	Rhombus	36	2	Numerical puzzle concerning unions and intersections of sets of people liking particular entertainments.
1793	08/10/1964	Meaningless!	Egma	144	2	"9 lights consist of a word less the letters of a synonym, e.g. NOURISHED - NURSED leads to OIH."
1794	15/10/1964	Quadri-penta-hexagonal	Pipeg	202	2R	"Grid comprises hexagons (with pentagons and squares at edges) superimposed on a square lattice. Each polygon contains a word entered clockwise (usually), with letters agreeing at edges; the perimeter spells 'SO FULL OF SHAPES ... 'TIS HIGH FANTASTICAL'."
1795	22/10/1964	Popular mystery	Babs	168	1	Unclued lights are names in a song from 'Patience'.
1796	29/10/1964	Face to face	Jeffec	220	2	"Grid is the net of a cube, with each face Times-style; lights are all 7-letter, and letters agree at edges."
1797	05/11/1964	Anagralgebra	Anticos	128	4	"24 clues lead to 5-letter words with no repeated letters, in 4 groups, within each of which any pair of words have exactly one letter in common. Each word is treated as the set of its letters, and lights are clued by unions and intersections."
1798	12/11/1964	Fretted with Golden ...	Eli	169	2	"Unclued lights are volcanoes, those across being active and those down inactive."
1799	19/11/1964	Enneads - III	Jackdaw	233	4	"All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares."
1800	26/11/1964	A flawed floor	Jeffec	225	1	"Grid is the plan of a wooden floor made up of 2 x 1 blocks, 43 of which have been reversed."
1801	03/12/1964	Pythagorean Triads	Leon	64	1	Numerical puzzle involving five triads of right-angled triangles with integral sides and equal areas.
1802	10/12/1964	Close of play	Arch	90	3R	"Grid is circular; 11 clues lead to the names of Test cricketers, to be entered letter by letter according to their scoring strokes, to spell 'FOR THE FIELD IS FULL OF SHADES AS I NEAR THE SHADOWY COAST, AND A GHOSTLY BATSMAN PLAYS TO THE BOWLING OF A GHOST'."
1803	17/12/1964	M'mm	Jac	123	1R	"Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares forming an M shape. All answers are 5-letter, with clues in random order within groups; various longer lights are formed."
1804	24/12/1964	"Puddings, Pies, etc."	ffancy	144	2	Most clued lights are entered in two parts; 8 lights are anagrams of the answers; 3 have the form NUTS IN MAY leading to MNUTSAY; some lights are unclued. Certain diagonals spell SINCERE GREETINGS TO ALL SOLVERS.
1805	31/12/1964	Mulberry Bush - II	Topher	225	1	Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer; half the clues define the lights and anagrams thereof.
1806	07/01/1965	Elliptical	Fudge	156	1	"Each answer leads to the light somehow, e.g. FIREBACK leads to ERIF, MARABOUTS leads to MASR."
1807	14/01/1965	"Same again, please! - II"	Peto	212	1	"24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. M(USC)ID, RE(SCU)E lead to CUSCUS."
1808	21/01/1965	Classified Lights - II	Jeffec	144	2	"Clues are presented in 4 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong."
1809	28/01/1965	Head-hunting - VII	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'THOU ART A TRAITOR: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!'
1810	04/02/1965	Sums	Rhombus	36	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  X + Y = Z  where  X,  Y  and  Z  are 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits."
1811	11/02/1965	Alphabetical Cocktail - V	Sam	169	1	The 26 across lights all begin with different letters; clues lead to anagrams beginning with the same letters.
1812	18/02/1965	Diametricode - III	Babs	144	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1813	25/02/1965	Pub crawl	Ploutos	144	4	"12 answers contain half of a common pub name, to be replaced on entry by the other half, e.g. UNCHILD leads to UNEAGLE."
1814	04/03/1965	Fives - IV	Odysseus	165	1	"Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'LET NOT EACH BEAUTY EVERYWHERE BE SPIED, WHERE HALF THE SKILL IS DECENTLY TO HIDE'."
1815	11/03/1965	Cook's Tour - VIII	Zander	169	2	13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1816	18/03/1965	Singular anomalies	Badger	196	1	Unclued lights are first names and surnames of 14 lady novelists.
1817	25/03/1965	Squares and Ladders - III	Pipeg	120	1	"10 positioning lights are clued; other lights are unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are four 5-letter word-squares."
1818	01/04/1965	N or NN	Rhombus	42	2	"Numerical puzzle involving 'binumbers', obtained by repeating each digit, e.g. the binumber of 734 is 773344."
1819	08/04/1965	Rotator	Jeffec	144	1	"Except for 9 palindromes, each clue leads to the light and its reverse."
1820	15/04/1965	Escalator	Jac	143	1	Lights are entered with successive letters alternately to the right of and below their predecessors.
1821	22/04/1965	Con-man's career	Babs	210	1	Narrative concerning the life of a con-man.
1822	29/04/1965	All in one	Simmo	196	1	Unclued lights are names of towers in the Tower of London.
1823	06/05/1965	Clock patience - III	Leon	52	1	"Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately."
1824	13/05/1965	17 Across [Quadruplets]	Analog	121	4	"8 clues leads to members of QUADRUPLETS, the lights being other members, e.g. SPADES leads to HEARTS."
1825	20/05/1965	Runs amuck	Rhombus	36	1	"Numerical puzzle with all lights formed from sets of consecutive digits, e.g. 24531."
1826	27/05/1965	Monarchs of all they survey	Eli	169	1	Unclued lights are names of highest mountains in their respective countries; those across are in the northern hemisphere and those down in the southern.
1827	03/06/1965	Missing links - VIII	Zander	144	2	14 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1828	10/06/1965	Try somewhere else - II	Pipeg	144	2	"Each asterisked clue contains a word defining the light at the place indicated, but belongs as a whole to a light of the same length elsewhere."
1829	17/06/1965	Tautonyms	Jeffec	225	1	"Unnumbered clues lead to English names of birds, whose Latin equivalents consist of one word repeated, this word being the light."
1830	24/06/1965	Daedalogue	Gong	94	1	Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights; within the grid may be traced 'THE WAY IS ALL SO VERY PLAIN THAT WE MAY LOSE THE WAY'.
1831	01/07/1965	Complementary	Bap	196	1	"Each answer is linked to its light via a phrase of the form '... and ...', e.g. BREAKFAST leads to BED."
1832	08/07/1965	Du boeuf au naturel	Jac	168	1	24 words form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps; each consists of an animal inside another word. Clues lead to the full words and also contain definitions of the 'outer' words.
1833	15/07/1965	Roman style - II	Babs	225	1	"Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. GARNET leads to VIIIXVIIIXIVVX."
1834	22/07/1965	Triagrams	Sam	144	1	"Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram."
1835	29/07/1965	Face to face - II	Jeffec	220	2	"Grid is the net of a cube, with each face Times-style; lights are all 7-letter, and letters agree at edges."
1836	05/08/1965	Amomeous	Simmo	196	1	Unclued lights are literary or traditional Utopias.
1837	12/08/1965	Part-songs - III	Eli	169	1	Clues are anagrams of titles of Schumann songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.
1838	19/08/1965	Snakes and ladders - IV	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
1839	26/08/1965	T?te-?-t?te	Gong	120	1	"The 26 across answers all have different initial letters; these must be altered on entry to form new words, with all initial letters still different. 15 down clues are MP; the remainder have misprinted lights (still words)."
1840	02/09/1965	Operatic	Babs	210	1	Unclued lights are operas crossed by their composers.
1841	09/09/1965	Spiroquote	Jac	225	4R	"Lights are Shakespearean characters and are entered letter by letter; starting at the centre and spiralling outwards reads 'SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER; THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW CREEPS IN THIS PETTY PACE FROM DAY TO DAY TO THE LAST SYLLABLE OF RECORDED TIME, AND ALL OUR YESTERDAYS HAVE LIGHTED FOOLS THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH. OUT, OUT BRIEF CANDLE!'"
1842	16/09/1965	Mixed couplets - II	Pipeg	144	1	"Some clues are two lines of verse by different authors with three or more consecutive letters in common, forming the light, e.g. BRIDGES, COLERIDGE lead to RIDGE."
1843	23/09/1965	Sixes and sevens - VI	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1844	30/09/1965	Paired	Jeffec	196	1	An equal number of MPs are lost from across and down lights.
1845	07/10/1965	Furor arithmeticus	Rhombus	64	1	Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  xZy / Z = w  e.g.  819564/1956 = 419.
1846	14/10/1965	Apollogies	Simmo	169	1	Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-OMANCY'.
1847	21/10/1965	Displaced persons - II	Peto	121	2	Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
1848	28/10/1965	"About time, too!"	Jac	169	2	Unclued lights are the Jewish months apart from AB.
1849	04/11/1965	Mayday	Jeffec	208	1	Unclued lights are ships which met violent ends.
1850	11/11/1965	Hour-glass - VII	Zander	96	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as '... SEE THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND, AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER, HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, AND ETERNITY IN AN HOUR'."
1851	18/11/1965	Half the battle	Rhombus	36	4	"Numerical puzzle concerning pairs of 3-digit numbers containing the digits 1 to 6, whose products contain only these digits."
1852	25/11/1965	Logodaedaly	Leon	140	2R	"Lights are entered letter by letter, to form (interlaced) SQUIRES MOST ATTRACTIVE FIND THE XANTHOCHROIC KIND, BUT WHEN CHOOSING SOMEONE FOR A SQUAW ADMIRE MELANOCHROI THE MORE and THE PNEUMA OF HUMOUR IS TO SUPPRESS ALL WORDINESS."
1853	02/12/1965	Tailpiece - IV	Babs	252	1	"8 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 8 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (S)QUARELY, (B)RIAREUS, (BU)CHAREST mean that LYRIST leads to QUUSCH."
1854	09/12/1965	Fives - V	Odysseus	150	1	Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'CAVANAGH WAS THE ADMIRATION OF ALL THE FIVES COURTS WHERE HE EVER PLAYED'.
1855	16/12/1965	"Elementary, my dear Watson"	Buff	132	2	"14 answers each lose two letters on entry to form other words defined in their clues; the letters lost are the chemical symbols of the rare earth elements, with the missing member, DY, entered in the central squares."
1856	23/12/1965	Christmas Crackery - IV	Zander	144	2	"Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell ZANDER TENDERS BEST WISHES FOR YULETIDE."
1857	30/12/1965	Super-imposition	ffancy	81	4R	"Each row contains two interleaved words, one in red and one in black; some diagonal lights are clued (ignoring colours)."
1858	06/01/1966	Hunt the title	Analog	169	1	Lights are entered letter by letter to spell REARRANGE ANSWERS TO FIRST TWENTY-SIX CLUES IN GROUPS OF TWO TO FORM BOOK TITLES. INITIALS OF AUTHORS' SURNAMES TAKEN IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN CLUES OF FIRST WORD OF EACH TITLE REVEAL PHRASE; this is READING MATTER (entered in bottom row).
1859	13/01/1966	Good Evans!	Trand	32	1R	Numerical puzzle with lights being moves in a game of chess (Evans' gambit).
1860	20/01/1966	Downcast	Simmo	196	1	Unclued lights are names for the devil.
1861	27/01/1966	Arabic style - II	Babs	256	1	"Lights are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. CUBAL leads to 3212112."
1862	03/02/1966	10 knots	Pipeg	144	2	10 unclued lights are defined either among the unchecked letters or in the title.
1863	10/02/1966	Head-hunting - VIII	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'ALL THE STARS HIDE THEIR DIMINISHED HEADS'.
1864	17/02/1966	Feetornonergeifyfeetone [Elongated]	ffancy	272	1	"11 down lights beginning FOR- indicate ways in which across answers are to be altered, e.g FOREFEET means that ROUES leads to ROUFEETS."
1865	24/02/1966	Key words	Peto	144	2	"Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are LAKM? - DELIBES; IOLANTHE - SULLIVAN; NORMA - BELLINI; KOANGA - DELIUS; MARTHA - FLOTOW; MIGNON - THOMAS."
1866	03/03/1966	Neo-Johnsonese!	Egma	144	2	"12 answers are replaced by their American equivalents, e.g. LIFT leads to ELEVATOR."
1867	10/03/1966	Twin-set	Jac	288	1	"There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid."
1868	17/03/1966	Triagrams - II	Sam	144	1	"Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram."
1869	24/03/1966	Dicey	Rhombus	24	2	"Numerical puzzle concerning a set of three dice, each numbered with 6 different digits totalling 30, thrown 12 times."
1870	31/03/1966	Stations	Jeffec	225	1	"Unclued lights across are TOM SNOUT, ROBIN STARVELING, FRANCISCO, ANTONIO, BAPTISTA, WILLIAM, SAUNDER SIMPCOX, AUTOLYCUS; those down are TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SAILOR, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, BEGGARMAN, THIEF."
1871	07/04/1966	Science fantasy - II	Simmo	169	1	Across lights are cyclic permutations of plants.
1872	14/04/1966	Three-legged race	Fudge	242	1	"There are two grids, each with 24 unclued lights; 24 lettered clues lead to words forming the right leg of a phrase with an unclued light from the left grid and the left leg with one from the right grid, e.g. BATH OLIVER TWIST."
1873	21/04/1966	"C., 5D., and W [Tutin]"	Snab	143	1	"Across lights are generic names from the British flora; their clues are DLM and lead to common names of members of the genera, e.g. NETTLE leads to URTICA. The title refers to Clapham, Tutin and Warburg's 'Flora of the British Isles'."
1874	28/04/1966	Predators	ffancy	169	2	Unclued lights are former Chancellors of the Exchequer.
1875	05/05/1966	Chop chop	Pipeg	169	1	"Each light is entered without its head and/or its tail; certain diagonals spell 'CUT OFF THE HEADS, LOP OFF THE TAILS; THAT'S WHAT YOU DO - IT NEVER FAILS'."
1876	12/05/1966	'There's magic in the web'	Rhombus	57	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues being equations with left-hand sides of the form  M / N,  where  M  is a 6-digit number and  N  a 3-digit number containing between them the 9 positive digits."
1877	19/05/1966	Eponymous	Babs	182	1	Unclued lights are objects named after people.
1878	26/05/1966	Versification	Gong	169	4	"Two 'poems' each comprise 10 lines of verse, with one word omitted and the remainder reordered; the 10 unclued lights in each direction are the omitted words, with the poets' names given in random order."
1879	02/06/1966	Double chance	Jac	169	1	Asterisked clues have lights encoded by a substitution cipher to form new words.
1880	09/06/1966	VWLLSS	Jeffec	144	2	All vowels are omitted from clues and lights.
1881	16/06/1966	Missing Links - IX	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1882	23/06/1966	Loose threads	Simmo	144	1	Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-OPHOBIA'.
1883	30/06/1966	Highlands and islands - II	Eli	169	1	Narrative concerning a Scottish holiday; unclued lights (all Scottish glens) appear as letter-mixtures or are hidden.
1884	07/07/1966	Word to the wise	Babs	144	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters SAP in some order.
1885	14/07/1966	Nohow	Rhombus	42	2	Numerical puzzle involving numbers of the form  N0H0W  (entered as NHW) which are products of two 3-digit primes.
1886	21/07/1966	Nominal association	Jeffec	225	1	"Unclued lights are objects otherwise named after saints, e.g. CHOREA (St. Vitus' dance), HYPERICUM (St. John's wort)."
1887	28/07/1966	Octagram	Jac	324	1	8 lettered clues have solutions of which 4 or 6 anagrams are entered as a block.
1888	04/08/1966	Half and half	Gong	169	4	"The perimeters of the grid and of the central 7 x 7 square form two endless chains of 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps, defined in random order."
1889	11/08/1966	Tomfoolery	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights are former court jesters.
1890	18/08/1966	Justyn Print	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Black Death' leads to ASA SPADES."
1891	25/08/1966	Game reserve - II	Topher	196	1	62 lights lose the name of an animal on entry.
1892	01/09/1966	3-D e.w. T-Sq.	Jac	150	1	"Grid is the net of a cube with letters agreeing at edges. 12 edge clues each define a 5-letter word and its reverse; 6 positioning lights are clued, with other clues grouped in faces, these being in random order."
1893	08/09/1966	Lucky Numbers	Reflector	91	1	Numerical puzzle with all lights palindromic; those across are divisible by 13 and those down by 7.
1894	15/09/1966	Diametricode - IV	Babs	169	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1895	22/09/1966	"Heads, bodies and legs"	Gong	144	1	"Down lights are 12-letter, and are split into 3 equal parts and entered in 3 different columns (one part being entered in the correct column)."
1896	29/09/1966	Red in ___	Jeffec	196	2	At least half the lights are Spenserian.
1897	06/10/1966	Coding exercise	Andreas	169	1	"Each light is encoded, with 12 pairs of letters (omitting X and Z) being represented by 12 single letters, the letter representing each pair being their average using numerical values (with Y = 24)."
1898	13/10/1966	Logogriphs - VI	Topher	108	1	Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1899	20/10/1966	Alphabetical cocktail - VI	Sam	130	1	Grid is circular; the outer circle comprises the alphabet. The 26 radial clues lead to cyclic permutations of the lights.
1900	27/10/1966	Fictional	Pipeg	196	1	18 clues lead to the names of fictional characters.
1901	03/11/1966	Casemates	Bap	196	2	32 clues lead to first names of fictional detectives; the lights are the corresponding surnames.
1902	10/11/1966	Occasional Visitors	Simmo	169	2	Unclued lights are comets.
1903	17/11/1966	Dodecahedron - II	Jeffec	72	1	Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell WIN OUR PRIZES) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1904	24/11/1966	'Clep'd All by the name of___'	Freca	168	1	11 unclued lights are names of Shakespearean dogs.
1905	01/12/1966	Galaxy	Smada	50	5R	"Numerical puzzle with grid comprising seven 5-pointed stars, each being magic with the same magic constant. There are 7 initial clues of the form  x? = y? + z?."
1906	08/12/1966	Cook's Tour - IX	Zander	169	2	14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1907	15/12/1966	15A (8) [Caravans]	Babs	225	1	Narrative consisting largely of a poem in the style of 'Daffodils'.
1908	22/12/1966	Cadeau de No?l	Jac	156	2	Each light loses the letters E and L at least once.
1909	29/12/1966	On the buses	Alexis	144	1	Unclued lights across are racing drivers; those down are orchestral conductors.
1910	05/01/1967	Mixed Bag - III	Pipeg	144	2	10 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1911	12/01/1967	Poles and axes	Mass	120	1R	"Half the lights are formed from the answers by combining 'poles', e.g. COMATOSE leads to COMOSE; the other half are 'axes' of the answers, e.g. ANNOUNCE leads to NOUN."
1912	19/01/1967	"Mirror, mirror"	Jeffec	196	2	"Diametrically opposite lights are reversals of each other, clued in pairs; each double clue is normal in one half and contains a hidden anagram in the other."
1913	26/01/1967	Double Acrostic	Sumydid	144	1	Across clues are DLM; initial and final letters of across lights spell 'LOVE IN IDLENESS' and 'DOLCE FAR NIENTE'.
1914	02/02/1967	6's and 7's	Jac	169	4	"All lights are 6- or 7-letter; four central positioning lights are clued first, thereafter clues are in random order in four groups corresponding to the four quarters of the grid."
1915	09/02/1967	Snakes and Ladders - V	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
1916	16/02/1967	Can you do division?	Rhombus	81	2	"Numerical puzzle, with lights clued by the numbers of their divisors."
1917	23/02/1967	Alphabetical inserts - X	Sam	110	2	Grid has black squares and one bar; each light is formed from the answer by inserting a different letter of the alphabet. Each clue contains an italicised word which defines one of the lights.
1918	02/03/1967	Double quits	Babs	144	1	Each answer loses a double letter to form the light.
1919	09/03/1967	Battleships	Anticos	169	1	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates, to be divided up by ten battleships (blacked out blocks of squares). Each clue is given a location and hits either its light or a ship having its answer as name; different lengths of ship have different categories of name."
1920	16/03/1967	Fives - VI	Odysseus	150	1	Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'THE QUINCUNX OF HEAVEN RUNS LOW AND 'TIS TIME TO CLOSE THE FIVE PORTS OF KNOWLEDGE'.
1921	23/03/1967	Zodiacal Sign in Eclipse	Freca	165	1	16 lights lose the suffix '-LION' on entry.
1922	30/03/1967	Two in one	Gong	169	1	"Each across light is one word inside another, e.g. AN-ARCH-Y; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture of the whole."
1923	06/04/1967	Analphabetics	Rasmo	169	1	Whenever the letter A or B appears in an answer it is replaced by the letter from the intersecting light; the replacements spell CENSOR THE FIRST TWO OF THE TWENTY-SIX.
1924	13/04/1967	Classified lights - III	Jeffec	169	2	"Clues are presented in 6 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong."
1925	20/04/1967	On figures lost	Simmo	169	1	Unclued lights are extinct creatures.
1926	27/04/1967	'And the last shall be first'	Rhombus	54	2R	"Numerical puzzle concerning examination marks obtained by five pupils, which when standardised reverse the ranking order."
1927	04/05/1967	Literal rendering	Fetman	225	1	The five vowels are already entered down the central column; in the completed grid the whole alphabet appears in order in phalanx formation. Unclued lights are 'COPIED ALL THE LETTERS' and 'CONNECTED WITH ORDER'.
1928	11/05/1967	D O able?	Fudge	144	1	A simple substitution cipher is used for down lights and across clues (which are simply definitions).
1929	18/05/1967	Incremental	Rufus	144	1	Grid is blank with co-ordinates. The starting square of each light is given; the positions of subsequent letters are determined by the addition or subtraction of given increments to or from the co-ordinates of the current square. The central columns spell 'THE TRUE SUCCESS IS TO LABOUR'.
1930	25/05/1967	Hanoned = Butwosh	Freca	180	1	11 lights are birds; ORNITHOLOGICAL is unclued.
1931	01/06/1967	Cyclic fours and fives - II	Topher	180	1	"Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For across lights, 18 clues lead to the light and an anagram, while the other 27 lead to the light and a misprint; for one light in each column the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue."
1932	08/06/1967	Humbly yours	Jac	195	1	"Unclued lights are Shakespearean servants. 3-letter lights are anagrams of 5-letter answers less the letters AT; 4-letter lights across are the differences between 7-letter and 3-letter words e.g. ARIMASP, RAP lead to AIMS."
1933	15/06/1967	Bilingual	Babs	144	1	Each light is a word in both English and Latin; each clue contains an interpolated definition of the Latin word elsewhere.
1934	22/06/1967	The Lord's combinations	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights across and down are BATs and BALLs respectively.
1935	29/06/1967	Mixed Bag - IV	Pipeg	144	2	8 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1936	06/07/1967	Centrepieces	Bap	196	1	Unclued lights are middle names of writers.
1937	13/07/1967	Interpolation	Egma	144	2R	"Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' Mid-Century Dictionary; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication."
1938	20/07/1967	Dodecahedron - III	Jeffec	72	1	Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell QUITE CORRECT) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1939	27/07/1967	Haplographical	Simmo	169	1	"Anything repeated in the answers appears only once in the lights, e.g. GARGARISM leads to GARISM, HOLLOW-WARE leads to HOLOWARE."
1940	03/08/1967	Double bisectors	Trand	32	4R	Numerical puzzle concerning lengths of lines in geometrical figures involving a bisected angle.
1941	10/08/1967	Hour-glass - VIII	Zander	107	1	Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME WALK UPON ENGLAND'S MOUNTAINS GREEN? AND WAS THE HOLY LAMB OF GOD IN ENGLAND'S PLEASANT PASTURES SEEN?'
1942	17/08/1967	From our Persian correspondent	Ploutos	204	2	Letters in across lights falling in the five unbarred columns are changed to form new words; the columns read 'UNBORN TOMORROW AND DEAD YESTERDAY - WHY FRET ABOUT THEM IF TODAY BE SWEET?'
1943	24/08/1967	Diametricode V	Babs	168	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1944	31/08/1967	"Not hanged, nor quartered"	Freca	180	1	"15 unclued lights each form a phrase beginning DRAW, e.g. BLANK, CHEQUE."
1945	07/09/1967	N on Si ns	ffancy	121	2	"Each answer loses one letter to form the light, which is still a word; subsidiary indications are to the lights."
1946	14/09/1967	Retranslation	Thor	169	1	Italicised clues contain words which must be 'retranslated' into mythical characters from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'.
1947	21/09/1967	They're after Samuel	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights are titles of kings and other rulers.
1948	28/09/1967	Bridge - III	Pipeg	52	2R	"Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20)."
1949	05/10/1967	Heslereperoses	Jac	225	1	Unclued lights across and down are the Seven against Thebes (HEROES) and the Seven SLEEPERS respectively.
1950	12/10/1967	For connoisseurs	Dogop	196	2	Unclued lights are titles of 5 crosswords and their setters from The Connoisseur's Crossword Book.
1951	19/10/1967	Soft answers	Babs	132	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters IRE in some order.
1952	26/10/1967	Riddleculous	Freca	180	1	"10 lights are answers to riddles, given in random order."
1953	02/11/1967	A flawed floor - II	Jeffec	225	1	"Grid is the plan of a wooden floor made up of 2 x 1 blocks, 47 of which have been reversed."
1954	09/11/1967	Hexominoes	Rhombus	72	1	"Numerical puzzle; grid is a jigsaw of the 12 hexominoes in a 6 x 12 rectangle, each containing the digits from 1 to 6. Down lights are haexagonal numbers (except one)."
1955	16/11/1967	Sixes and Sevens - VII	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1956	23/11/1967	The sweetest of all ...	Brad	225	2	Asterisked clues lead to the first names of singers; the surnames are the lights.
1957	30/11/1967	Dicatacrypt	Jac	225	1	"Each down answer is interpreted literally to form the light (always a word), e.g. DOUBLET leads to TEETOTAL, BROKEN NOSE leads to ONES."
1958	07/12/1967	Dividing the Swift Mind	Sumydid	144	1	"Reading boustrophedon, the grid spells THERE SAT ON A LOG IN IRAN OMAR, 'O GIVE ME,' HE BEGAN, 'VERSE, WET IN FLASK I OMIT NOT TO ASK, ADD ONE LOAF, AND THOU, SWEET ON DIVAN.' and EVER LOYAL ART, RED SETTER: 'I AVER SOVIET CROSSWORD'S BETTER.'"
1959	14/12/1967	Christmas entertainment	Dogop	196	2	"Initial letters of across lights spell 'NO PLACE FOR THEM IN THE INN'; these are each entered encoded by adding CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT, e.g. N + C = Q, O + H = W."
1960	21/12/1967	At the present time	ffancy	144	2	Most lights have DLM clues; the rest appear in a narrative.
1961	28/12/1967	Hippodrome	Pipeg	169	1	Unclued lights are famous horses.
1962	04/01/1968	Complementary - II	Bap	225	1	"Each answer is linked to its light via a phrase of the form '... and ...', e.g. TRANSFIGURATION leads to DEATH."
1963	11/01/1968	Aurora Borealis	Twudge	225	1	Unclued lights are stations on the Northern line of the London Underground.
1964	18/01/1968	Variations on a theme	Alexis	169	1	"Theme-words SPADE (DELF, DIG, TRENCH); HEART (EARTH, HATER, RATHE); DIAMOND (KOHINOOR, ORLFF, PITT); CLUB (DRONES, LITERARY, PICKWICK)."
1965	25/01/1968	Triagrams - III	Sam	143	1	"Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram."
1966	01/02/1968	Guilt complex	Leon	225	1	"The completed grid  contains a path tracing the 12 processes involved in the search for the philosopher's stone (less '-TION' in each case), beginning and ending in the same square."
1967	08/02/1968	Nesting birds - III	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
1968	15/02/1968	Coincidence	Ploutos	144	2	Unclued lights are people the centenary of whose birth or death falls in 1968; their unchecked letters occur in 4 supplementary clued words.
1969	22/02/1968	Bits and Pieces	Babs	144	1	"There is a chain of linked words beginning KAKEMONO, MONOPOLY, POLYMER; the beginning of each word is entered where clued and the remainder elsewhere as the beginning of another word. At three points the chain splits and later reforms."
1970	29/02/1968	The P and S Game	Rhombus	42	1	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  (a, b: c)  with  c = a + b + ab."
1971	07/03/1968	Songs their mothers taught them?	Freca	180	1	"15 clues are puns or spoonerisms involving songs, e.g. 'Meat-purveyor: _______ arms around me, deary!' leads to BUTCHER."
1972	14/03/1968	Dodecahedron - IV	Jeffec	72	1	Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell CUT OUT SEND IN) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1973	21/03/1968	Simple Addition	Egma	144	2	"Unclued lights, when paired together, form simples, e.g. FEVERFEW, ANGELICA."
1974	28/03/1968	Curate's Egg	Jac	225	2	"Unclued lights across and down are the 7 cardinal virtues and the 7 deadly sins, respectively."
1975	04/04/1968	Concealed Upright	Dogop	196	1R	"Each across light loses a letter on entry, spelling 'ONE BY ONE CREPT SILENTLY TO REST'."
1976	11/04/1968	Revolutionaries	Sumydid	144	1	"Each across clue is a double clue to two words, the light and a cyclic permutation thereof."
1977	18/04/1968	Northern Lights - IX	Log	144	1	"All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Several answers omit LOG on entry."
1978	25/04/1968	Questionable Characters	Bap	144	1	"Across lights are misprinted Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations descriptive of the characters in which brief definitions of the lights have been inserted."
1979	02/05/1968	Variations on a Theme - II	Alexis	169	1	"Theme-words KING (MELCHIOR, GASPAR); QUEEN (CONSORT, REGNANT); BISHOP (POPE, CARDINAL); KNIGHT (GARTER, ELEPHANT); ROOK (RAVEN, CARRION-CROW)."
1980	09/05/1968	Our Mutual Friends	Klick	169	2	Unclued lights across are types of CROSS; those down are DOWNs.
1981	16/05/1968	Crazy Paving	Albipedius	225	4	"Solid bars divide the grid into twenty-five 3 x 3 squares; whenever a light crosses one of these bars, it may be displaced by a row or column."
1982	23/05/1968	Odds and Ends	Rhombus	42	2	"Numerical puzzle; four groups of clues are given, each involving three 3-digit primes  a, b, c  containing the 9 positive digits, so that  a + b - c  and c + b - a  are also 3-digit primes."
1983	30/05/1968	"Same again, please! - III"	Peto	214	1	"24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. S(ERBI)AN, F(IREB)LIGHT lead to BERIBERI."
1984	06/06/1968	A Cryptic Triptych	Ploutos	180	1	"Grid is in three vertical sections; 6 lights in each are also words in French, German or Latin, and definitions in their clues consist of translations of the foreign words."
1985	13/06/1968	CSUCCT	Babs	81	1	Title is SUCCINCT; all lights are entered in this fashion.
1986	20/06/1968	Versification - II	Gong	169	4	"Two 'poems' each comprise 10 lines of verse, with one word omitted and the remainder reordered; the 10 unclued lights in each direction are the omitted words, with the poets' names given in random order."
1987	27/06/1968	Head-Hunting - IX	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'EACH SECOND STOOD HEIR TO THE FIRST'.
1988	04/07/1968	Stocktaking	Jeffec	108	1	"Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are entered letter by letter, spelling items stolen by AUTOLYCUS."
1989	11/07/1968	Et Seq	Jac	225	1	Unclued lights are Shakespearean attendants.
1990	18/07/1968	Quinbus Flestrin	Freca	180	1	Asterisked clues and their lights refer to 'Gulliver's Travels'.
1991	25/07/1968	Signs and Symbols	Sumydid	132	1	"12 squares contain signs and symbols, e.g. C&IDATE, ·AL."
1992	01/08/1968	Point Blank	Fudge	121	1	"The starting square of each light is given; each section of the light preceding a point N, S, E, W, NW, NE, SW or SE is entered in the appropriate direction."
1993	08/08/1968	Holiday Hints - 1968	Azuriel	169	4	"Definitions of the lights occur in order in a passage of holiday hints, in which the lights are also hidden."
1994	15/08/1968	Double Acrostic	Dogop	196	2	Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'IF SO IT PLEASE THEE CLOSE IN MIDST OF THIS THINE HYMN MY WILLING EYES'.
1995	22/08/1968	Olla Podrida	Klick	169	2	"Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. IRISH STEW leads to RISHI."
1996	29/08/1968	Points don't count	Hal	144	1	"Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored."
1997	05/09/1968	Masq	Albipedius	169	4	"Shaded squares (in rows and columns numbered 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13) form a magic alphabetic square; eight of the letters must be deduced."
1998	12/09/1968	Seconds	Babs	225	1	"14 unclued lights form 7 pairs, being the second (Christian) name of a composer and the second name in the title of one of his operas, e.g (Arthur) SEYMOUR (Sullivan) leads to (Box and) COX."
1999	19/09/1968	Half and Half	Ploutos	144	4	"All lights are entered in two halves, the first where indicated and the second elsewhere."
2000	26/09/1968	Crossword No Two Thousand	Sam	132	2	"Across lights omit a letter each time it appears, spelling CROSSWORD NO TWO THOUSAND."
2001	03/10/1968	The Fighting XIIth	Ramal	64	2	Numerical puzzle involving various accounts of an ambush on a Roman legion.
2002	10/10/1968	Pyrotechnic	ffancy	152	1	"Grid represents a jumping cracker; DLM clues lead to a chain of words with 1-letter overlaps, entered up and down the cracker. Horizontal and diagonal lights are clued normally; shaded squares read LIGHT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER AND RETIRE IMMEDIATELY."
2003	17/10/1968	Chop and Change	Brad	144	4	"Half the lights are anagrams of the answers, the others part of the answers."
2004	24/10/1968	Treasured Thoughts	Ratat?sk	165	2	Grid is blank with co-ordinates; DLM clues in three passages lead to three chains of lights with 1-letter overlaps. Each light bends once at right angles; map references give squares through which the lights pass. The single X in the grid locates the treasure.
2005	31/10/1968	Dodecahedron V	Jeffec	72	1	Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell REAPS A REWARD) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
2006	07/11/1968	Projectosubstiquote	Jac	200	1	"Across lights, if misprinted by 2 letters in those of 6 or more letters and by 1 letter otherwise, spell a quotation; the misprints are entered in an extension frame. Down lights are jumbled."
2007	14/11/1968	Acephalous	Egma	144	1	All lights lose an initial letter A.
2008	21/11/1968	All A	Bart	180	1	"Unclued lights are towns at the end of the appropriately-numbered A road, e.g. 1 leads to EDINBURGH, 16 leads to GRIMSBY."
2009	28/11/1968	The System of Time	Lascia	144	2	Unclued lights across are planets; those down are months.
2010	05/12/1968	Lights Out	Sumydid	144	2	"From each asterisked clue the light has been omitted (in two or more words), e.g. 'Aspirations I may 'ave, but all are short-sighted' leads to MYOPES."
2011	12/12/1968	Dogberrydom	Alexis	169	1	"Each unclued across light is an animal, which links with one down to form a flower: LEOPARD's BANE, VIPER's BUGLOSS, HAWK's BEARD, ELEPHANT's EARS, BEAR's BREECH, SHEEP's SORREL, LAMB's LETTUCE, COLT's FOOT."
2012	19/12/1968	Priority and Parity	Freca	180	1	"5 'Priority' and 6 'Parity' clues each lead to the first part of a proverb, the second part being the light, e.g. PREVENTION leads to CURE, NOD leads to WINK."
2013	26/12/1968	Connected Triads	Pipeg	169	1	"Theme-words POINT (CAPE, CARDINAL); WELLS (BATH, SPRINGS); CRIPPS (STAFFORD, BRISTOL); PORTER (PORRET, REPORT); FAIRFAX (JANE, EMMA); RUDOLPH (REINDEER, LAKE); PARTLET (HEN, DAME)."
2014	02/01/1969	Hocofos	Rhombus	81	1	"Numerical puzzle with 10 clues of the form 'the HCF of  A  and  B  is  C'  where  A  and  B  are of the form  H0C0F0S,  represented in the grid as HCFS. Unchecked digits are regrouped in pairs and clued separately."
2015	09/01/1969	Chequer-work	Gong	96	1	"Grid represents an elongated chessboard; the back row of a set of white chessmen moves from top to bottom, each spelling a sequence of words with the king tracing 'HELPLESS PIECES OF THE GAME'."
2016	16/01/1969	Two-Way Stretch	Dogop	196	2	Grid is in two identical halves; each clue leads to both lights at the location.
2017	23/01/1969	Spoilt Child	Babs	121	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters ROD in some order.
2018	30/01/1969	Triagrams - IV	Sam	144	1	"Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram."
2019	06/02/1969	Take Five	Brad	169	2	Only the vowels of each light are entered.
2020	13/02/1969	You're Welcome!	Jeffec	187	1	Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'FROM HEBUDES DARK WITH RAIN TO EASTERN LODON'S FERTILE PLAIN AND FROM THE SOUTHERN RED'S WIRE EDGE TO FARTHEST ROSSES ROCKY LEDGE FROM WEST TO EAST FROM SOUTH TO NORTH'.
2021	20/02/1969	Ricochet	Jac	225	2	"Unclued lights are parts of 'ricochet' words, e.g. (CLITTER-)CLATTER, FIDDLE(-FADDLE), defined separately in random order."
2022	27/02/1969	Subtraction	Bart	144	4	Each answer loses a letter or letters to the value of the diagram number on entry.
2023	06/03/1969	ENIGMAthematica	Leon	49	4R	Some clues are 'teasers'; completed grid is a magic square.
2024	13/03/1969	Laid Bare	Mass	121	1	"16 answers lose BARK, HIDE, PEEL, PELT, RIND or SKIN on entry."
2025	20/03/1969	Co-partners	Simmo	144	2	"18 unclued lights are connected with various counties in Great Britain, e.g. (YORKSHIRE) PUDDING, (ABERDEEN) ANGUS."
2026	27/03/1969	Pluswords	Sumydid	144	1	"Five groups of three 5-letter words, omitted from five couplets, are such that adding the first two letter by letter produces the third, e.g. AMBER + AEGIS = BRINK."
2027	03/04/1969	Justyn Print - II	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Excursion' leads to SALLY FORTH."
2028	10/04/1969	Square Search - III	Jackdaw	180	1	"The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except D and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (Q)UANTUM MERUIT is formed by cross-referencing alphabetically the head-letters."
2029	17/04/1969	Questionable Characters - II	Bap	144	1	"Across lights are misprinted Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations descriptive of the characters in which brief definitions of the lights have been inserted."
2030	24/04/1969	An Unconsidered Trifle	Dogop	196	2	"Across lights are clued in sequence by definitions in an extract from 'The Winter's Tale' (Act III, Scene iii)."
2031	01/05/1969	Not Nice	Fudge	182	1	"Unclued lights, in crossing pairs, form anagrams of names of biscuits."
2032	08/05/1969	Love me Love ...	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights are famous dogs.
2033	15/05/1969	Threesomes	Rhombus	96	2R	"Numerical puzzle;  a, b, c  and  x, y, z  are each three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, such that  a + b + c = x + y + z  and  a? + b? + c? = x? + y? + z?,  these equations holding true when any one or two corresponding digits of the six numbers are deleted."
2034	22/05/1969	Take Your Pick	Ploutos	144	4	"Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram."
2035	29/05/1969	Estate Agency	Freca	165	1	"Unclued lights are 7 literary residences, with the corresponding authors clued in random order: WILDFELL (BRONTE), BLEAK (DICKENS), SEVEN GABLES (HAWTHORNE), DOLLS' (IBSEN), HEADLONG (PEACOCK), HEARTBREAK and WIDOWERS (SHAW)."
2036	05/06/1969	Stump the Theme	Apex	132	2	"Unclued central column contains CHAPMAN, SMITH; across clues are LL, spelling JARDINE, CLOSE on the left and BROWN, HAMMOND on the right."
2037	12/06/1969	The first shall be last The last shall be first	Klick	169	1	"The last names of 6 celebrities appear in across answers and their first names in down answers; these names are transposed on entry, e.g. SAMBO, JEWELLER lead to WELLERBO, JESAM."
2038	19/06/1969	Diamond	Pipeg	169	1	PERFECT NUMBER and PANCAKE TOSSER (clued) appear in a diamond shape.
2039	26/06/1969	Chequerwork II	Gong	96	1	"Grid represents an elongated chessboard; the back row of a set of white chessmen moves from top to bottom, each spelling a sequence of words with the king tracing 'BURIED IN THE KING'S HIGHWAY'."
2040	03/07/1969	Diametricode VI	Babs	168	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights.
2041	10/07/1969	Swops	Sam	165	1	Each across light is formed by tranposing a pair of letters in the answer.
2042	17/07/1969	Ten by Seven	Jeffec	196	1	"Italicised clues are double, each leading to two words which together form an anagram of the light; those across are the story-tellers in the Decameron and those down their servants."
2043	24/07/1969	I haven't a clue - III	Smada	27	1	"Numerical puzzle; grid is a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, with lights taken from the edges and face diagonals from a set of 50 cuboids with the same prime internal diagonal (50 being the maximal number for the value in question)."
2044	31/07/1969	Decaniclary	Jac	225	2	Unclued lights across are the 7 Sages of Greece; those down are the 7 deacons of the early church.
2045	07/08/1969	Missing Links - X	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2046	14/08/1969	Misdefined	Dogop	196	2	All clues are MP.
2047	21/08/1969	28 ac [Old Testament]	Mass	156	1	18 answers lose an abbreviation of an OLD TESTAMENT book on entry.
2048	28/08/1969	Red Herring	Freca	195	1	12 clued lights are fish; ICHTHYOLOGICAL is unclued.
2049	04/09/1969	Enneads ... IV	Jackdaw	233	4	"All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares."
2050	11/09/1969	Noah's Ark II	Ad	120	1	"Grid is circular, with radial lights entered inwards and running from the innermost circle back to the outermost where necessary. Clues are PD, leading to names of creatures."
2051	18/09/1969	Misprints	Apex	144	4	Half the clues are MP; remaining lights are misprinted.
2052	25/09/1969	Pyramid Patience	Leon	52	1R	"Card puzzle representing a game of patience; 45 cards are dealt in a pyramid, with the remainder forming the stock. Products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 5) are clued for rows and diagonals. Exposed pairs of cards of the same suit totalling 13 are removed; kings are removed singly."
2053	02/10/1969	In Other Words - II	ffancy	143	2	"The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means an anagram, E-H an antonym, I-N a homophone, O-R no change and S-Z a synonym."
2054	09/10/1969	Toil and Trouble	Babs	165	2R	"Each clue is in fact two clues, one inside the other, leading to two words differing in two positions, e.g. TAILOR, TOILER, entered as T A/O I L O/E R. Order in the double squares is unimportant."
2055	16/10/1969	Quo Vadis?	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2056	23/10/1969	Centoddities	Jac	225	2	"16 rhyming couplets are given, each comprising two lines by different poets, of whom the first half of the first and the second half of the second form another (unclued) poet. Each line contains a letter-mixture of a light clued below the couplet."
2057	30/10/1969	Diverse	Machiavelli	144	2	"Clues are in verse, each line being a DLM clue. Each light corresponds to a couplet, whose answers are of the same length; the light is formed by removing the third word formed by the middle of the two words, e.g. MUS(LIN GER)UND."
2058	06/11/1969	Text Books	Phoenix	156	1	Unclued lights are names of bibles.
2059	13/11/1969	Theme and Variations - VII	Zander	169	2	"Theme-words APOLLO (PHOEBUS, HELIOS); ARMSTRONG (STORM, RANG); ALDRIN (AGE, RUN); COLLINS (CASSELL, DENT)."
2060	20/11/1969	The Changes Rung	Brad	144	1	Unclued lights are old London telephone exchanges (and also the names of creative artists).
2061	27/11/1969	Nesting Birds - IV	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
2062	04/12/1969	To and Fro	Lascia	112	2R	"Each clue contains a definition of the light, but belongs as a whole to another word, to be reversed to form another light elsewhere."
2063	11/12/1969	Round and Round	Rhombus	56	2	"Numerical puzzle concerning 33 numbers, whose differences modulo 1057 are all different."
2064	18/12/1969	"Puddings, Pies, etc. - II"	ffancy	144	2	Most clued lights are entered in two parts; 8 lights are anagrams of the answers; 3 have the form CAP IN HAND leading to HACAPND. Certain diagonals spell A MERRY XMAS TO ALL SOLVERS. Some lights are unclued.
2065	25/12/1969	Bankrupt	Ploutos	144	4	"All lights lose all occurrences of L, S, D on entry."
2066	01/01/1970	AnaCyph - V	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell ''CHARGE, CHESTER, CHARGE! ON, STANLEY, ON!' WERE THE LAST WORDS OF MARMION' by SCOTT (third circle)."
2067	08/01/1970	Musicale	Twudge	225	1	"Each unclued across light is the title of a musical work, with the composer an unclued down light crossing it."
2068	15/01/1970	Dead Letters	Egma	196	2	23 unclued lights are British towns without their initial letters; each letter from A to W is omitted once.
2069	22/01/1970	Cyclic fours and fives - III	Topher	180	1	"Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For across lights, 18 clues lead to the light and an anagram, while the other 27 lead to the light and a misprint; for one light in each column the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue."
2070	29/01/1970	Elliptic	Trand	44	2	"Numerical puzzle with lights being co-ordinates of points on two ellipses, contained in the grid."
2071	05/02/1970	Subtraction - II	Bart	144	4	Each answer loses a letter or letters to the value of the diagram number on entry; certain diagonals spell 'I AM A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN AND LONG WORDS BOTHER ME'.
2072	12/02/1970	All Hearts (for C.H.H. who thought of it)	Gong	134	1R	"Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light."
2073	19/02/1970	Underwords and Overwords	Sumydid	144	2	"13 asterisked clues lead to two words, of which one (the overword) is obtained from the other (the underword) by advancing each letter one place in the alphabet, e.g. STAR, TUBS; either is to be entered."
2074	26/02/1970	Cook's Tour - X	Zander	169	2	14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2075	05/03/1970	Revised Versions	Fudge	192	1	"Top row is SHOVING LEOPARD; many clues contain, and many lights are, spoonerisms."
2076	12/03/1970	1D 65A [Trafalgar Square]	Babs	210	1	"Unclued lights apart from the title are COLLINGWOOD, HARDY (British captains); ROYAL SOVEREIGN, AFRICA, VICTORY (British ships); DUMANOIR, GRAVINA, VILLENEUVE (French captains); REDOUTABLE, SANTA ANA, BUCENTAIRE (sic), FOUGUEUX (French ships)."
2077	19/03/1970	Au Pair	Jac	225	1	"Most (unasterisked) clues have answers forming one half of a literary formula '... and ...', with the light being the other half, e.g. ANTONY leads to CLEOPATRA, PREJUDICE leads to PRIDE."
2078	26/03/1970	Zero One	Rhombus	154	1	Numerical puzzle with three grids: grid A contains eight 7-digit and eight 8-digit numbers made up of 0s and 1s; grids B and C interpret them in binary and denary respectively and clue them in random order in terms of their own lights.
2079	02/04/1970	Letters Latent (concealing Ximenes' constant need)	Apex	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling (together with two unclued lights) 'SOME WORD THAT TEEMS WITH HIDDEN MEANING LIKE BASINGSTOKE'."
2080	09/04/1970	Nonsense Rhymes III	Ramal	162	2	"Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light."
2081	16/04/1970	The first shall be last The last shall be first ... II	Klick	169	1	"17 answers contain the first or last name of a literary character, to be replaced by the other name on entry, e.g. GUNNER leads to BENER."
2082	23/04/1970	Ludo Game	Mass	168	4	"Four corners (ROSE, SAXE, GOLD and VERT) contain five 8-letter and five 5-letter lights; circled squares spell the colours. 6-letter lights are entered jumbled along the path of a ludo disc and up the four home-runs."
2083	30/04/1970	Double-Take	Jackdaw	169	1	"Answers to italicised clues lead somehow to the lights, e.g. HONOUR AMONG THIEVES leads to THHOINEOVUERS, SCATTER-BRAIN leads to BAIRN."
2084	07/05/1970	Snowflake	Smada	66	6R	"Numerical puzzle; grid comprises eight 6-pointed stars, each magic with the same magic constant. There are eight initial clues of the form  x? = y? + z?."
2085	14/05/1970	Highlands and Islands - III	Eli	196	1	"Narrative, with 25 unclued lights the names of Scottish hills over 2,000 feet high, contained as letter-mixtures or hidden."
2086	21/05/1970	Jabberish	Salamanca	144	2	"Positioning lights, in central rows and columns, provide co-ordinates for the remaining squares; some of the other lights are clued with initial squares given. Certain squares spell THIMBLES, CARE, FORKS, HOPE, RAILWAY-SHARE, SMILES, SOAP - needed for HUNTING SNARKS."
2087	28/05/1970	Pocket Money	Systemat	60	4R	Numerical puzzle concerning three children's use of pocket money.
2088	04/06/1970	Ten to Eleven	Klick	169	2	"The 10 unclued across lights, correctly paired with the 10 unclued down lights, give the members of the 1966 World Cup winning team."
2089	11/06/1970	Typical Misprints	Apex	196	2	"Clues are MP; diagonals spell CHARLES DICKENS and PICKWICK PAPERS; unclued lights are CENTENARY, WARDLE, WELLER, SNODGRASS, WINKLE, TUPMAN."
2090	18/06/1970	Misprinted Quotation	Dogop	196	1R	"All lights are entered misprinted; correct letters, entered in isolated top right corner, spell 'WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED'."
2091	25/06/1970	Logogriphs - VII	Topher	108	1	Twelve 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
2092	02/07/1970	Two in One II	Gong	169	1	"Each across light is one word inside another, e.g. G-LAND-ULAR; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture of the whole."
2093	09/07/1970	Nocturne	Babs	225	1	"Narrative, with a poem in which the last three words of each line rhyme."
2094	16/07/1970		Jac	225	2	Unclued lights are types of crosses.
2095	23/07/1970	Solitaire	Leon	49	4R	"Numerical puzzle; 49 cards are dealt in a 7 x 7 square. Clues are given to suits (A-F = H, G-M = C, N-S = S, T-Y = D) and ranks (AB = Ace, CD = 2, ..., YZ = King), the latter being jumbled. The four corner 4 x 4 squares are removed and the solitaire played, with superior cards jumping inferior ones (order being KS, ..., AS, KH, ..., AH, KD, ..., AD, KC, ..., AC)."
2096	30/07/1970	Check	Sabre	144	2	All lights are entered in reverse.
2097	06/08/1970	Refracted and Reflected Lights	Bart	196	1	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue is prefaced by the co-ordinates of an initial square, in an order which determines a direction of entry. However, before entry, the light may be reflected or rotated, the transformation involved being determined by the initial letter of the light."
2098	13/08/1970	With a hey and a ho	Lascia	144	2	"Unclued lights are names given to wedding anniversaries, with appropriate grid numbers (consequently misplaced)."
2099	20/08/1970	Perm all Five	Sam	144	1	"Answers contain no repeated vowels; lights are formed by rearranging the consonants and the unused vowels, e.g. SPROUT leads to PIRATES, RUINED leads to ADORN."
2100	27/08/1970	Getting the 'ell out of Carl Marx	Scorpio	64	4R	"Clues lead to names of towns or counties, entered as TWO-LETTER INDEX MARKS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES ALLOTTED TO GREAT BRITAIN AND EIRE (spelled out in the grid)."
2101	03/09/1970	Fun in the Alveary	Egma	144	2	"Clues to ILLUSTRATION, PETTING PARTY, POCK-PUDDING, RESTORATION, SEA-SERPENT, ECLAIR, NOOSE, HE-MAN are the humorous definitions in Chambers'."
2102	10/09/1970	Quo Vadis? - II	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2103	17/09/1970	Metropolitan	Klick	169	1	Unclued lights are the Roman names of well-known towns.
2104	24/09/1970	Qbism	Rhombus	80	2	Numerical puzzle; lights are linear dimensions of 16 'qboids' with total edge length 4860 'qbits' and surface area 856204 square 'qbits'.
2105	01/10/1970	"Farewell, Fair Cruelty"	Alexis	169	1	"The 11 unclued lights, with CRUELTY, are the names of the jury in Pilgrim's Progress."
2106	08/10/1970	Early!	Freca	180	1	10 lights are names or abbreviations of names of COUNTIES (unclued).
2107	15/10/1970	Portmanteaux - VI	Topher	150	1	"Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order."
2108	22/10/1970	"Heads, Bodies and Legs - II"	Gong	144	1	"Down lights are 12-letter, and are split into 3 equal parts and entered in 3 different columns (one part being entered in the correct column)."
2109	29/10/1970	Lost Alphabet	Babs	169	1	The 26 across answers each lose a different letter on entry; each across clue contains a superfluous word defining a light elsewhere.
2110	05/11/1970	Chilepine	Jac	225	1	Unclued lights are monkeys (the Chile pine being the monkey-puzzle tree).
2111	12/11/1970	Literal	ffancy	144	2	"In lights whose length is not given, W appears as UU."
2112	19/11/1970	From Age to Age ...	Leon	144	1	"Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell GEHAZI, LOT'S WIFE, ARGUS, TOM PIPER, CRISPIN, LAZARUS, ESAU, MARY MAGDALENE, GENTILES, BISHOP - all things a cheese (fromage) should not resemble according to Brewer's."
2113	26/11/1970	The Nine Worthies	Rhombus	72	2	"Numerical puzzle; each clue has the form  xy ? z = w?,  where x, y, z  are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits."
2114	03/12/1970	What's the Matter?	Lascia	144	2	"14 lights are the names of chemical elements, clued only by grid numbers, most of which are consequently misplaced."
2115	10/12/1970	A Spot of Lunarisms	Sumydid	144	2	9 normal clues are asterisked; all other clues or their lights are affected by a spoonerism.
2116	17/12/1970	Find the Lady - II	Badger	196	1	"30 clues in capitals are anagrams of a composer and one of his operatic heroines, the latter being the lights."
2117	24/12/1970	Full Board - II	UtdtU	64	1	"Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece."
2118	31/12/1970	Many Moons Ago	Egma	144	1	"Grid is circular, with radial lights interspersed with the months of the Jewish calendar (unclued); circumference lights are given in order for each circle but may start anywhere."
2119	07/01/1971	Key Words - II	Peto	169	2	"Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are GLORIANA - BRITTEN; ESPANA - CHABRIER; FAUST - GOUNOD; CARNAVAL - SCHUMANN; SALOME - STRAUSS; OBERON - WEBER."
2120	14/01/1971	Order in the Home	Dogop	196	2	Unclued lights are parts of the home of a monastic order.
2121	21/01/1971	The Listener Crossword	Klick	169	2	"Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. CHAMPAGNE leads to SHAM + PANE."
2122	28/01/1971	Word Sums - VII	Proton	143	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
2123	04/02/1971	Snakes and Ladders - VI	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."
2124	11/02/1971	All Hearts - II	Gong	134	1R	"Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light."
2125	18/02/1971	Quo Vadis? - III	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2126	25/02/1971	Common Ends	Babs	169	1	The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.
2127	04/03/1971	Alibi	Jac	225	1	"Each light is an anagram of the clue answer; answers to asterisked clues, and all lights, are towns listed in the Oxford Atlas."
2128	11/03/1971	Indigestion	Ploutos	144	4	Each light has two internal adjacent letters transposed on entry.
2129	18/03/1971	Cathedral Gossip and the Sound of Nudity	Sumydid	144	1	"Read diagonally boustrophedon, most of the grid spells A CURIOUS TALE AT ST. OGG'S WE HEAR - VICE A TROOP'S PADRE, GROGS. O SEE, NOOTE'S HEART UP LEAPED A NEW DITTY THEY'VE CHEEPED - NO GAS AND NO GAITERS, NO TOGS."	
2130	25/03/1971	Alphabetical Inserts - XI	Sam	122	1	"Grid is Times-style; each light is obtained from the answer by inserting a different letter in the position indicated, with each clue containing a superfluous word defining the light."	
2131	01/04/1971	How Strange	Twudge	225	1	"Unclued lights are names of conductors (title is an anagram of SARGENT, and 1 Across is FACE THE MUSIC)."	
2132	08/04/1971	Something in Common	Gong	169	2	"9 answers are translated into rhyming slang on entry, e.g. BOTTLE leads to ARISTOTLE."	
2133	15/04/1971	Miss Play Theme	Apex	144	2	"Most clues are MP; 4 lights are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are DAVID (COLEMAN, FROST) and JONATHAN (PEARMAIN, BALDWIN)."	Vexatiously
2134	22/04/1971	Harder Sums	Rhombus	63	2R	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  (a + b) / c = n = (d + e) / f,  where  n  is a single digit, given only for the first three equations, and  a, b, c  and  d, e, f  are each three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits."	
2135	29/04/1971	Doubled Up	Dogop	64	4	"Each light is formed by adding the numerical values of the letters in the answers to the two clues at the location, e.g. INCH + STEW = BHHE."	
2136	06/05/1971	C	Bart	196	1	"Each unclued down light, when reduced modulo 7 to the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, forms an important musical phrase (translated to the key of C) from a work suggested by a crossing across light."	
2137	13/05/1971	No Reption	Jeffec	169	2	In lights and words in clues any repetitions of letters are omitted.	
2138	20/05/1971	Alter Ego	Jac	225	2	"A list of 24 Shakespearean characters is given, whose descriptions define the unclued lights."	
2139	27/05/1971	Fourshortened	Babs	120	1	Babs' 100th puzzle; all down lights lose the consecutive letters CENT in some order.	
2140	03/06/1971	Full Board - III	UtdtU	64	1	"Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece."	
2141	10/06/1971	Hour-Glass - IX	Zander	111	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BUT WHATE'ER YOU ARE THAT IN THIS DESERT INACCESSIBLE, UNDER THE SHADE OF MELANCHOLY BOUGHS, LOSE AND NEGLECT THE CREEPING HOURS OF TIME'."	
2142	17/06/1971	Pellian and M?lange	Notlaw	81	1	"Numerical puzzle with most clues of the form  x? - Py? = 1,  with  P  prime and  x, y  minimal for  P."	
2143	24/06/1971	Letter for Letter	Sumydid	144	2	Four lights are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it.	Vaulting-horse
2144	01/07/1971	It's a Knock-out	Apex	144	4	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are unclued, with their unchecked letters given."	
2145	08/07/1971	Schizacrostic	Dogop	172	2	"Grid has black squares and is in two identical halves; clues are in two groups, each containing half of those in each direction for each half of the grid. Initial letters of across lights spell 'AS FALSE AS DICERS' OATHS'."
2146	15/07/1971	Cardiagram	Salamanca	66	1R	"49 clues each define two words (and contain a letter-mixture of one), one being the other with a letter removed. This letter is entered in the grid to spell I.E. THE QUEEN OF HEARTS ABOUT THE TWO, FIVE AND SEVEN OF SPADES (these three being missing when squares are identified as cards using the entered letters to determine suits and final letters of answers to determine ranks); some are also entered in a separate row to spell 'OFF WITH THEIR HEADS' (the letters concerned all having been initial letters)."
2147	22/07/1971	Friend and Foe	Alexis	195	1	"Unclued lights across are girlfriends of James Bond, those down his enemies."
2148	29/07/1971	Superimposition - II	ffancy	81	4R	"Each row contains two interleaved words, one in red and one in black; some diagonal lights are clued (ignoring colours)."
2149	05/08/1971	Quo Vadis? - IV	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2150	12/08/1971	Knight's Tour	Sabre	225	1	"Intersections of odd-numbered rows and columns give an 8 x 8 square, toured by a knight to spell DEDUCE THE UNCLUED LIGHT BY READING UP THE INITIAL LETTERS OF THE GIVEN CLUES; this gives BLACK OR WHITE SHE HAS FAR STRONGER CAPABILITIES FOR MOVING THAN THE KNIGHT, leading to the light QUEEN."
2151	19/08/1971	Verbarium 3	Proton	144	1	"Down lights are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a stanza about Sir Walter Scott (b. 1771), whose works are referred to in the clues."
2152	26/08/1971	Autrefois	Jac	225	2	"Unclued lights across are the months of the French revolutionary calendar, those down being the phenomena concerned, e.g. THERMIDOR leads to HEAT."
2153	02/09/1971	Half-Seas-Over	Babs	121	1	"The twenty 2-letter annexes to the grid contain SE, EA or AS."
2154	09/09/1971	Double Dealing	Scorpio	156	1	"Each across clue corresponds to a row, and leads to two different groups of two or more words, one starting at the left of the grid, the other somewhere else and cycling back to the start of the row, e.g. LANDMAN + DARING, GLAND + MANDARIN. Down lights are mainly jumbled, and cycle from the bottom row to the top."
2155	16/09/1971	All Star Cast	Gong	169	2	"12 clues lacking definitions lead to the names of American states, the lights being their popular names, e.g. OHIO leads to BUCKEYE."
2156	23/09/1971	AnaCyph VI A Tale that is told	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'AND SHE SET DOUN HIR WATERPOT ANOON BISYDE THE THRESHFOLD' from CHAUCER's CLERK's tale (third circle)."
2157	30/09/1971	Splitting Pairs	Brad	169	2	Lights are clued in symmetrically opposite pairs; in each pair one clue is normal while the other merely contains a letter-mixture.
2158	07/10/1971	Misprints	Apex	196	2	"Clues are MP; diagonals spell JOHN GALSWORTHY - THE FORSYTE SAGA; unclued lights are SOAMES, SWITHIN, BOSINNEY, JOLYON, FLEUR."
2159	14/10/1971	Acrostic	Dogop	196	2	Initial letters of across lights spell 'A SWEET DISORDER IN THE DRESS'.
2160	21/10/1971	Sixes and Sevens - VIII	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2161	28/10/1971	Armchair Detective - Murder!	Salamanca	99	2	"A, B, C, D, E and F are involved in a murder. Lights with normal clues lose the victim (A); unclued lights are the professions of 5 of the 6 (ARCHITECT, BORER, CARPENTER, DECORATOR, FENCE). Three lights (EVADE, DEPOT, SHIELD) point to F; the 'Crimeword' INCUBATED contains all the innocent."	
2162	04/11/1971	Square Search - IV	Jackdaw	180	1	"The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except J and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (Q)UADRILATERAL is formed by cross-referencing alphabetically the head-letters."	
2163	11/11/1971	With Women and Power and War	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights are famous horses.	
2164	18/11/1971	Partners	Jeffec	225	1	"Italicised clues lead to placenames which are one half of a Municipal Borough or Urban District, the lights being the other halves."	
2165	25/11/1971	Double-Cross	Jac	96	4R	"Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube and has black squares; letters match along edges. In each face four 4-letter lights are entered diagonally; for these, odd-numbered clues lead to an 8- and a 4-letter word with the light being the difference, while even-numbered clues lead to two 8-letter words with the light being common to both. Finally the central letters of the four normal lights in the face form a 4-letter word obtained by removing the central letter from a clued 5-letter word."	
2166	02/12/1971	Siamese Triplets	Badger	169	4R	"Each row contains 3 Shakespearean characters, overlapping e.g. FABIANCASSIUS; alternate columns have clues with lights entered letter by letter."	
2167	09/12/1971	Splitting Pairs - II	Brad	144	2	Lights are clued in symmetrically opposite pairs; in each pair one clue is normal while the other merely contains a letter-mixture.	
2168	16/12/1971	Three Four Time	Rhombus	35	2	"Numerical puzzle with each clue of the form  3x + 4y = 7z,  where  x, y, z  are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits; each clue is linked to another involving the reversals of the numbers."	
2169	23/12/1971	Miss Play Theme	Apex	144	2	"Clues are MP; 4 answers are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are PANTOMIME (CINDERELLA, ALADDIN) and DAME (EVANS, ASHCROFT)."	Boxing Day
2170	30/12/1971	Columnist	Babs	196	1	Narrative concerning a muck-raking journalist.	
2171	06/01/1972	Cyclic Fours and Fives - IV	Topher	180	1	"Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For one light in each row the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue; in each column the clues are definitions in one sentence."	
2172	13/01/1972	Numerology	Klick	169	2	"Unclued lights, when pluralised, are related to their grid numbers, e.g. 39 Across is STEP."	
2173	20/01/1972	Sea-piece	Dogop	121	2	Clues and lights concern the sea.	
2174	27/01/1972	AnaCyph - VII	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'IF YOU SEE THESE LINES YOU'LL KNOW I DO NOT VALUE YOU THE LESS' by JOHN BETJEMAN in 'SUMMONED BY bells' (obtained similarly from letters in third circle)."	
2175	03/02/1972	Prime Ratios	Rhombus	81	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  a = b / c,  with  a  prime and less than 60,  b  5-digit and  c  4-digit, with  b, c  containing the 9 positive digits."	
2176	10/02/1972	All Hearts - III	Gong	134	1R	"Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light."	
2177	17/02/1972	... and all that	Bart	196	1	"Answers to asterisked clues have their letters replaced by their successors in the alphabet to form the lights, which are still words (the puzzle number may similarly be obtained from 1066)."
2178	24/02/1972	A Mariner's Burnt Water	Alexis	169	1	Unclued lights across and down may be preceded by BLUE and GREEN respectively.
2179	02/03/1972	Leading Lights	Egma	144	2	Unclued lights are terms used for leaders.
2180	09/03/1972	Topknot	Jac	169	1	"Across lights, all words, are formed from the answers by 'tucking their heads into their bodies', e.g. DEMURRER leads to MURDERER, CARSE leads to SCARE."
2181	16/03/1972	Back Transfer	Rhombus	81	1R	"Numerical puzzle; each clue gives in ascending order three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, whose product also contains these 9 digits."
2182	23/03/1972	Not always true sons	ffancy	144	2	"Unclued lights are all words lacking 'MAC-' initially, but only the down lights have it as a prefix, e.g. DONALD (Down), CLESFIELD (Across)."
2183	30/03/1972	Nesting Birds - V	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
2184	06/04/1972	Diametricode - VII	Babs	169	1R	24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights.
2185	13/04/1972	Head-Hunting - X	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'CARVE A LITTLE BIT OFF THE TOP FOR ME'.
2186	20/04/1972	Word Sums - VIII	Proton	144	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."
2187	27/04/1972	Where the Place?	Jeffec	225	1	"22 lights are placenames mentioned in Shakespeare, clued in random order by quotations."
2188	04/05/1972	In Reverse	Rhombus	42	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  xX + yY = (x + y)Z,  where  X, Y, Z  are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits; each clue is paired with another involving the reversals of  X, Y, Z."
2189	11/05/1972	Alphabetical Cocktail - VII	Sam	156	1	All 26 across answers have an odd number of letters; the centres (all different) are removed and an anagram of the remainder entered (the initials of these all being different as well).
2190	18/05/1972	Olla Podrida - II	Klick	169	2	"Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. BROKEN PROMISE leads to IMPOSER."
2191	25/05/1972	Cturenced Parts	Bart	169	1	"All across answers contain IN and are entered as in the title, e.g. PIN-UP leads to UPP."
2192	01/06/1972	Abecedarium	Dogop	169	2	"Asterisked squares in rows and columns numbered 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13 form a 5 x 5 square containing the letters of the alphabet except J; the centre is isolated and the 13-letter lights in the first and last columns are unclued."
2193	08/06/1972	Dicatacrypt - II	Jac	169	1	"Each down answer is interpreted literally to form the light (always a word), e.g. GRANDAM leads to GRAM, MONASTERY leads to MASTERY."
2194	15/06/1972	N on Si ns - II	ffancy	121	2	"Each answer loses one letter to form the light, which is still a word; subsidiary indications are to the lights."
2195	22/06/1972	Sl-o-o-o-g	Rhombus	81	2R	"Numerical puzzle; in each of the 7 clues,  A, B, C  are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, with (possibly non-distinct) 'anagrams'  a, b, c,  such that the products  Ab, Bc, Ca  each contain three consecutive digits, to be removed to form 3-digit lights."
2196	29/06/1972	In Memoriam My best friend is...	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling '... HE WHO TAKES MY MIND TO THE GARDEN OF TORMENT' (puzzle marks the anniversary of Ximenes' death)."
2197	06/07/1972	Uniformed Guides	Peto	196	2	"Italicised clues are 'guides' to the answers, from which the suffix '-IFORM' is removed to form the lights."
2198	13/07/1972	Roman Style - III	Babs	221	1	"Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. ZEALOUS leads to XXVIVIXIIXVXXIXIX."
2199	20/07/1972	Titbits	Alexis	169	2	"Theme and variations with theme-words types of TIT: WILLOW (THOMAS, TURNER); GREAT (ALFRED, ABBAS); BLUE (GOOSE, TAIL); COAL (CARRY, NEWCASTLE); MARSH (HARRIER, WARBLER)."
2200	27/07/1972	Anacyph - VIII	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'I FOUND ME IN A GLOOMY WOOD ASTRAY GONE FROM THE PATH DIRECT' from DANTE's INFERNO (third circle)."
2201	03/08/1972	Hide and Seek	Salamanca	144	2	"Across clues are pairs of lines of a poem; the first contains a plural definition leading to two words, the second defines a word hidden between the two, to be removed to form the light, e.g. 'beaches', 'pause' lead to SHO(RE ST)RAND."
2202	10/08/1972	Take-out Doubles	Sam	100	1	"Each answer contains a repeated part (between 2 and 5 letters in length); both parts are removed to form the light, e.g. MI(NGLE)-MA(NGLE)."
2203	17/08/1972	Literally	Rhombus	77	1	"Numerical puzzle; lights, grouped by length, have clues (in random order) involving their digits, e.g.  abc = a? + b? + c?,  abcdefgh = (abcd + efgh)?."
2204	24/08/1972	GBS = 132	Jeffec	169	1	"15 lights are venues of modern Olympic Games (GBS = gold, bronze, silver); 5 clues lacking definitions give anagrams of them in threesomes."
2205	31/08/1972	Give and Take	Bart	192	2	To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed.
2206	07/09/1972	Head-Wind	Jac	169	2	"Each across answer is entered with its initial letter encoded using a simple substitution cipher, forming another word. Down lights involving encoded letters have clues referring to both original and encoded versions (the latter by definition only)."
2207	14/09/1972	Before and After X	Apex	144	2	"Unclued lights are LABOUR (WILSON, JENKINS, CALLAGHAN, STEWART, SHORT) and TORY (HEATH, MACLEOD, MAUDLING, DOUGLAS-HOME, THATCHER) - before and after the General Election."
2208	21/09/1972	1/1?	Leon	162	1	"Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell 11 surnames of EXECUTIONERS, with the letters SURE EXIT ONCE before and after the names (a 'thirteenpencehalfpenny' is a hangman)."
2209	28/09/1972	Ten Types of Ambiguity	Egma	144	2	10 unclued lights are type-faces.
2210	05/10/1972	Down the ladder rung by rung	Rhombus	63	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form  AB = a.b,  where A, B, a, b  are 3-digit numbers,  AB  denotes juxtaposition, and each side contains 6 distinct digits (all positive). The second half of each 'rung' is the first half of the next (which would be  BC = c.d)."
2211	12/10/1972	Arabic Style - III	Babs	169	1	"Lights are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. BIFORM leads to 296151813."
2212	19/10/1972	Word Ladder	Sumydid	196	4	"Lights are rungs, sometimes unclued, of a 6-letter word-ladder in which each rung has five letters in common with the next."
2213	26/10/1972	Split two ways	Jeffec	225	1	"Each answer is split between two lights, across (numbered) and down; half the answers are entered across and then down, the other half up and then back."
2214	02/11/1972	Catherine Wheel	Salamanca	100	1	"Grid is circular; middle circle reads NOT TO BE HELD IN THE HAND. ATLAS and TITAN are rockets, FAX and CEREUS Roman candles, FAGGOTS and RAGS Guys, and PEARCING and PEALING jumping crackers."
2215	09/11/1972	Give and Take - II	Bart	168	2	To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Certain diagonals spell 'GETTING AND SPENDING WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS'.
2216	16/11/1972	A. P. Trios	Jasan	72	2	Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits and in arithmetic progression.
2217	23/11/1972	Seven-a-Side	Trand	49	4R	"Numerical puzzle; each 5-digit number with digits chosen from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 is associated through a weighted digital sum (modulo 7) with a day of the week. Central 5 x 5 square has 13 zeroes already entered; perimeter has 12 days of the week already entered; remaining squares are to be filled so that each perimeter square contains the day of the week associated with the 5-digit number reading away from it along a row, column or diagonal."
2218	30/11/1972	Two's _______	Apex	144	2	Diagonals spell 'I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED TODAY' from COMPANY by SONDHEIM (both unclued).
2219	07/12/1972	Topped and Tailed	Klick	169	2	Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2220	14/12/1972	Arcades Ambo	Politicaster	144	1	Unclued lights are Oxbridge colleges.
2221	21/12/1972	Noel	ffancy	121	2	All Ls are omitted on entry; certain diagonals spell WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
2222	28/12/1972	Justyn Print - III	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Enthusiast' leads to IGOR BEAVER."
2223	04/01/1973	Heads and Tails II	Babs	168	4R	Perimeter lights are an endless chain of 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps; other lights have their heads entered where stated and their (3-letter) tails elsewhere.
2224	11/01/1973	In the looking glass	Rhombus	62	2	Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits such that the sum of their squares is equal to that of their reversals.
2225	18/01/1973	Lapis Philosophicus	Phoenix	145	1	"12 unclued lights are philosophers (and XANTIPPE, wife of Socrates) with initial letters B, D, F, H, J, L, N, P, R, T, V, X - the thirteenth to complete the set is ZENO, whose final letter is entered in a separate square."
2226	25/01/1973	To a Word Lark	Freca	180	1	"Each asterisked clue defines two verbs, one weak and one strong; the light is the 'new' past tense of the weak verb, following the example of the strong, e.g. TRY, FLY lead to TREW."
2227	01/02/1973	Sixes and Sevens	Salamanca	169	2	"Answers to clues are 6- and 7-letter words, which gain or lose a letter to form the light, entered at another location where the same letter is involved."
2228	08/02/1973	Count me out	Mass	121	1	12 across and 12 down answers lose MASS on entry.
2229	15/02/1973	Fractionary - III	UtdtU	144	2	Numerical puzzle; lights are the repetends of fractions with prime denominators in varying bases up to 10.
2230	22/02/1973	Fractured French	Fudge	210	1	"'English' clues are normal; 'French' clues lead to common French words or phrases, but the definitions are 'in the spirit of Fractured French', e.g. 'Charger' leads to HORS DE COMBAT."
2231	01/03/1973	Pandore as Boks II	Proton	144	2	"Across clues lead to words which, followed by AS and the light, form homophones of phrases, e.g. JUDE leads to HOLE, BEG leads to OPERA."
2232	08/03/1973	Refracted and Reflected Lights II	Bart	196	1	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue is prefaced by the co-ordinates of an initial square, in an order which determines a direction of entry. However, before entry, the light may be reflected or rotated, the transformation involved being determined by the initial letter of the light."
2233	15/03/1973	________ [Hotchpot]	Apex	144	2	"There are 5 clue types, LL (spelling the title), PD, DLM, MP and Right and Left."
2234	22/03/1973	An Alliterative Acrostic	Dogop	156	2	Clues are mainly alliterative;  initial letters of across lights spell 'SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE'.
2235	29/03/1973	Double Nine	Rhombus	60	2	"Numerical puzzle; each clue concerns a permutation of the 9 positive digits, and leads to three 3-digit numbers containing them."
2236	05/04/1973	Square Search V	Jackdaw	180	1	"The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except J and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (J)OLLIFICATION is formed by cross-referencing alphabetically the head-letters."
2237	12/04/1973	A Limerickal History of the 'Listener' Crossword	Anon [Salamanca]	225	1	"7 limericks form a narrative with many Listener setters as lights. Other answers have two consecutive letters replaced by a third on entry (definitions refer to the answers, subsidiary indications the lights); the letters concerned spell A CROSSWORD MAN CALLED SALAMANCA AFTER PUZZLES EXTRAORDINARY DID HANKER; HE SOON SAW THE LIGHT AND THE CLUE TO HIS PLIGHT VIA BARS, WHERE HIS MIND BECAME BLANKER!"
2238	19/04/1973	Bridging the Gap	Babs	156	1	Latin narrative concerning the game of 'PONS'.
2239	26/04/1973	Cook's Tour - XI	Zander	169	2	16 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2240	03/05/1973	Wicked Capitalism	Bart	196	1	"Clues are in three groups. The 26 in set A lead to answers whose initial letters are all different and must be changed to form the lights (with the new initial letters also all different); the 26 in set B each contain a superfluous word defining a set A light, but are otherwise normal; those in set C are normal."
2241	10/05/1973	Chop and Change II	Brad	144	2	"Half the lights are anagrams of the answers, the others part of the answers. Supplementary (mainly one-word) clues are given in alphabetical order, defining the lights."
2242	17/05/1973	Two in One	Sabre	144	2	"Each square may contain one or two letters; in squares containing two, they may be taken in either order."
2243	24/05/1973	Nothing Barred	Dogop	196	4	Grid is blank with clues across and down given in correct order; across lights lose the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
2244	31/05/1973	Enneads V	Jackdaw	233	4	"All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares."
2245	07/06/1973	Body-Snatching	Mass	121	2	"30 answers lose parts of the body to form the lights, e.g. CARMAGNOLE leads to CAGNOLE."
2246	14/06/1973	Link Module	Rhombus	81	2R	"Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit, form a chain in which each is obtained from its predecessor by alternately permuting the digits and taking the residues modulo 7, 11 and 13."
2247	21/06/1973	Set to open the ___	Apex	148	4	Clues concern tennis; diagonals (including extra central 2 x 2 square) spell WIMBLEDON LAWN TENNIS FORTNIGHT.
2248	28/06/1973	The Listener Crossword II	Klick	169	2	"Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. AIRSACS leads to EYRE + SAXE."
2249	05/07/1973	Missing Links - XI	Zander	144	2	15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2250	12/07/1973	This is it!	Chanakya	225	1	"Unclued lights are CROSSWORD PUZZLE, SEX APPEAL, CLEW, DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN, EXCLAMATION MARK, TWO DOWN, FOUR-LETTER WORD, THE LISTENER, NE PLUS ULTRA."
2251	19/07/1973	Lot 46 - Plaque d'Immatriculation	Twudge	225	1	"Unclued lights are French d?partements, each clued by its own number (Lot = 46), most of which are necessarily misplaced."
2252	26/07/1973	Quo Vadis? - V	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2253	02/08/1973	Recommended Accommodation	Babs	192	1	20 clues lead to two answers differing by one letter; 10 squares are thus affected. In these squares the letters CHILDREN TV are inadmissible.
2254	09/08/1973	Harbour Lights	Dogop	121	2	"All clues, and some lights, have a nautical connection."
2255	16/08/1973	Miss Printer's Devilry	Apex	144	2	"Among lights of a given length, half the clues are MP, the rest PD."
2256	23/08/1973	Antigone and Creon	Peto	169	2	8 answers lose ANTI and 7 gain CRE initially; all lights are still words.
2257	30/08/1973	Three Prime Nine	Slavko	99	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues are equations of the form  x + y + z = 9w,  where  x, y, z, w  are 3-digit primes, the first three containing the 9 positive digits."
2258	06/09/1973	Overlaps III	Babs	189	1R	"5 rows and 5 columns comprise three 7-letter words with 3-letter overlaps, e.g. ALLEGRIEVERMINY; clues to these are run together."
2259	13/09/1973	Sixes and Sevens - IX	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2260	20/09/1973	Mark VIII	Jeffec	204	2	"8 isolated squares have their contents spelt out diagonally or laterally leading from or to them: PILCROW, SECTION, ASTERISM, DIESIS, OBELUS, ASTERISK, INDEX, PARALLEL."
2261	27/09/1973	Simply Divine	ffancy	144	2	Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-MANCY' (also unclued).
2262	04/10/1973	Variations on a Theme III	Alexis	169	2	"Theme-words ACROSS (VICTORIA, KING'S, GREEK; -PATCH, -EYED, -GARTERED) and DOWN (UPSIDE, EIDER, TUMBLE; -GYVED, -SITTING, -HEARTED); all are entered in the appropriate direction."
2263	11/10/1973	Directions Enclosed	Salamanca	144	2	"Each line of verse is a double DLM clue to a word and a 'direction', which when applied to the word produces the light, e.g. PIOY, DROPSY lead to PIO, RECOVERABLE, ESTOPS lead to RPCOVPABLP."
2264	18/10/1973	Displaced Persons III	Peto	121	2	Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
2265	25/10/1973	Abecedarian Jigsaw	Dogop	144	4	"Clues are presented in alphabetical order of light, and the initial letter of each light is given; each letter of the alphabet is used at least once initially."
2266	01/11/1973	Firework Display	Salamanca	105	1	"Each column (except the centre, which spells A PENNY FOR THE GUY) has a triple DLM clue leading to a 6-, a 5- and a 4-letter word, entered letter by letter; across lights, which run from row to row, are fireworks."
2267	08/11/1973	We give thee greeting	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling 'BRIGHTLY DAWNS OUR WEDDING DAY: JOYOUS HOUR'."
2268	15/11/1973	All change	Alexis	140	1	"Theme-words PADDINGTON (POOH, URSA); MARYLEBONE (BONER, MEALY); VICTORIA (MARY, ANNE); WATERLOO (MOSCOW, NILE); EUSTON (NEREUS, TONNER)."
2269	22/11/1973	Calloway Strikes Again!	Leon	225	1	"19 unclued lights are halves of journalistic clich?s, the other halves of which are given in random order."
2270	29/11/1973	Schizogrammata	ffancy	128	2	There are two identical grids. The alphabet is divided into two categories (letters with and without curves) and each light is split between the two grids accordingly. Clues are normal or DLM according as the light begins in the first or second grid.
2271	06/12/1973	Key Words 3	Peto	225	1R	"Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are VESPRI SICILIANI - VERDI; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - MOZART; ARIADNE AUF NAXOS - STRAUSS; IL TURCO IN ITALIA - ROSSINI."
2272	13/12/1973	3-Cube Squares	Rhombus	48	2	Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  Z? = w? + x? + y?.
2273	20/12/1973	Christmas Crackery - V	Zander	144	2	"Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles, limericks; certain diagonals spell MAY CORDIAL SENTIMENTS ENSURE A GAY NOEL."
2274	27/12/1973	Heads or Tails	Babs	204	1	"Twelve 8-letter lights, of the form ...IS..., protrude 5 squares above or below the grid; each provides a code for one of the 6-letter lights, e.g. HIBISCUS means that EXCUSE leads to EXHIBE."
2275	03/01/1974	The First shall be last the Last shall be first III	Klick	169	2	"17 answers contain the first or last name of a 'celebrity', which must be replaced by his or her other name, e.g. DISANCHOR leads to DIPANZAR."
2276	10/01/1974	OWWW!	Sal & Sim	144	2	"Clued lights are entered coded, by moving each letter forward in the alphabet the number of places given by its position in the words, e.g. UNCLAD leads to VPFPFJ; title is thus NUTS, and defines the unclued (and uncoded) lights."
2277	17/01/1974	Parmultumvo	Jeffec	225	2	"Title is MULTUM IN PARVO; unclued lights are English towns or villages entered in this way, e.g. AR-HENLEY-DEN."
2278	24/01/1974	Double Acrostic	Dogop	144	2	Initial and final letters of across lights spell AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE and ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE respectively.
2279	31/01/1974	Outnumbered	Sam	100	1	"All answers lose a number (in one case, two numbers) on entry, e.g. HEIGHTEN leads to HEN."
2280	07/02/1974	O Dirctio	Salamanca	144	2	"All instances of N, E, W, S have been removed from clues and lights. Shaded diagonals (reconstituted) read 'BY INDIRECTIONS FIND DIRECTIONS OUT' and 'I KNOW NO SOUTH, NO NORTH, NO EAST, NO WEST'."
2281	14/02/1974	Interpolation - II	Egma	144	2R	"Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication."
2282	21/02/1974	Variations on a Theme - IV	Alexis	169	1	"Theme-words PALACE (FALKLAND, HOLYROOD); SPURS (REINS, CROP); ARSENAL (CARSE, ENALLAGE); ORIENT (GRACIOUS, LIGHT); CHELSEA (KINGS, ROAD)."
2283	28/02/1974	"Same Again, Please! - IV"	Peto	224	1	"24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. NE(CKTI)E, SI(CKTI)RED lead to TICKTICK."
2284	07/03/1974	Three in One	Babs	144	1	Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2285	14/03/1974	Qbes	Rhombus	64	2R	"Numerical puzzle; six digits (3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) and thirty-two 2-digit numbers are given, with the latter to be arranged into eight foursomes the sums of whose cubes are 6-digit numbers containing the digits given."
2286	21/03/1974	Quo Vadis? - VI	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2287	28/03/1974	Miss Printer's Devilry Theme	Apex	132	2	"Unclued lights are ZANDER, HEAD-HUNTING, JUSTYN PRINT, COOK'S TOUR, HOUR-GLASS (ROBINS being clued normally); other lights have DLM or MP clues."
2288	04/04/1974	'Joys in another's ____'	Sam	144	1	"Title continues '... loss of ease'; the only vowel appearing in the answers is E, and is omitted everywhere on entry."
2289	11/04/1974	"A Paschal Crossword Party, thrown ..."	Dogop	169	2	Unclued lights EASTER EGG and VERNAL EQUINOX form a central cross; several Listener setters are among the lights.
2290	18/04/1974	Prime Trios	Rhombus	32	2	"Numerical puzzle involving six sets of three 3-digit primes containing the 9 positive digits, given in three pairs of sets: in the first pair the sums are equal; in the second the sums of the squares are equal; in the third the sums of the products are equal."
2291	25/04/1974	Heads and Tails III	Babs	169	4R	Perimeter lights are an endless chain of 6-letter words (8 clockwise and 8 anticlockwise) with 3-letter overlaps; other lights have their heads entered where stated and their (3-letter) tails elsewhere.
2292	02/05/1974	Give and Take III	Bart	192	2	"To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Diagonals spell 'THE LITTLE MORE AND HOW MUCH IT IS, AND THE LITTLE LESS, AND WHAT WORLDS AWAY!'"
2293	09/05/1974	Correspondence Course	Algol	154	1	Unclued lights are stations on the PARIS METRO.
2294	16/05/1974	Small Change	Klick	169	2	Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.
2295	23/05/1974	Favous Plexus	Lascia	180	6R	"Grid is a lattice of equilateral triangles; lights are 6-letter, entered in 6 triangles forming a hexagon. Perimeter may be arranged to form A STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN WHICH BEES PUT HONEY."
2296	30/05/1974	Up to Scratch	Jeffec	144	1	"Unclued lights form MOHS'S SCALE: TALC, GYPSUM, CALCITE, FLUORITE, APATITE, ORTHOCLASE, QUARTZ, TOPAZ, CORUNDUM, DIAMOND."
2297	06/06/1974	1-2-X	Mass	169	1	"Unclued lights are 5 homes (COTTAGE, HOUSE, HOVEL, MANOR, VILLA), 5 aways (ABSENT, DISTANT, LEAVE, LEFT, OUT) and 5 draws (ATTRACT, GLANCE, INHALE, LENGTHEN, UNSHEATHE)."
2298	13/06/1974	Who's who? (or Six Characters in Search of an Author)	Adam	196	1	Unclued lights are names and titular descriptions of characters from Sherlock Holmes short stories.
2299	20/06/1974	Hearless	Salamanca	151	2	"Across clues are paired anagrams of birds, to be entered without their central letters; these spell out 6 more heartless birds, whose hearts spell a heartless seventh. Down lights are jumbled and subsidiary indications are to the jumbled forms."
2300	27/06/1974	fonetik	Ad	169	2	All answers are entered phonetically as in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary.
2301	04/07/1974	In League	Egma	144	2	Unclued lights are nicknames of football league clubs.
2302	11/07/1974	Printer's Pranks	Dogop	144	2	Across clues are PD; down clues are MP.
2303	18/07/1974	An hour to play	Ploutos	196	2	"Title continues '... and the last mean in'; 11 lights are the 'last men' of the clued answers, e.g. ENGLISH leads to HEREWARD."
2304	25/07/1974	"4-41, 1-50 [Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]"	Bart	144	1	The 26 across answers each lose both their initial letters (all different) and their final letters (also all different).
2305	01/08/1974	Face to face - III	Jeffec	220	2	"Grid is the net of a cube and has black squares; all lights are 7-letter, and letters agree at edges."
2306	08/08/1974	The French connection	Klick	169	2	Unclued lights are English words which when paired appropriately and separated by French connectives form French phrases (and CHESTER-le-STREET).
2307	15/08/1974	Missing-Links Patience	Leon	52	2R	"Card puzzle; the 52 cards are laid out in 7 rows with each row containing one face-down (a 'missing link'). Clues are given to sequences of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) around certain points. The object is to remove pairs of the same colour totalling 13 (Kings being removed singly), unblocking by turning over missing links, which are to be deduced."
2308	22/08/1974	Six before seven	Brym	169	2	"7 unclued across lights are basic SI units; 6 unclued down lights, appropriately numbered, are prefixes indicating powers of ten (1 = DECA, 2 = HECTO, 3 = KILO, 6 = MEGA, 9 = GIGA, 12 = TERA)."
2309	29/08/1974	Take two or three	Adam	48	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are triples of numbers such that the sum of any two, or of all three, is a perfect square."
2310	05/09/1974	Call my bluff	Apex	144	2	"There are 6 lights of each length: 2 are clued normally, but definitions to the other 4 have been rearranged."
2311	12/09/1974	Diametricode VIII	Babs	156	1R	Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights.
2312	19/09/1974	Cross-mots	Ad	163	2	Across clues and lights are in English; those down are in French.
2313	26/09/1974	Snakes and ladders	Egma	100	1	"9 snakes and 4 ladders are shown in the otherwise blank grid; two players, spelling out words, move as in the game, descending snakes (ANACONDA, BOA, KRAIT, ASP, SEPS, VIPER - the last three each occurring twice) and ascending ladders (ASCENT, ESCALATOR, STEP, UP)."
2314	03/10/1974	Symphonic theme and variations	Bart	169	1	"Theme-words CECILY (DENISE, EDWINA); GERTRUDE (LAERTES, OSRIC); MAGDALEN (ORIEL, BRASENOSE); MARGARET (PEARL, NACRE); ROSALYS (DILYS, GLADYS) - 'five sweet symphonies' from 'The Blessed Damozel'."
2315	10/10/1974	In other words	Salamanca	144	2	Half the lights are clued with a number of misprints; in each clue the correct forms of the misprints form an anagram of one of the unclued lights.
2316	17/10/1974	XXXX	Jac	96	4R	Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube and has black squares; letters match along edges. In each face four 4-letter lights are entered diagonally; clues lead to two 8-letter words with the light being common to both. Finally the central letters of the four normal lights in the face are the inner or outer 4 letters of a clued 8-letter word.
2317	24/10/1974	Cyclic permutations	Politicaster	144	1	Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer (and is rarely a word).
2318	31/10/1974	Six-all	Dogop	144	2R	"Each clue has 6 words, each light 6 letters."
2319	07/11/1974	Butterfly Patience	Leon	52	2R	"Card puzzle; the 52 cards are laid out in 'butterfly' formation. Clues are given to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) in columns and diagonals. The object is to remove pairs totalling 13 (Kings being removed singly)."
2320	14/11/1974	Space-saver III	Babs	49	1	"Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. KIE-KIE leads to K I E, PIPPIN leads to P I P/N."
2321	21/11/1974	A.P. Trios II	Jasan	72	2	Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits and in arithmetic progression.	
2322	28/11/1974	Time to throw a Party	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling BIRTHDAY CENTENARY OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL; clues are all thematic."	
2323	05/12/1974	Two-sided addition	Sabre	162	2	"There are two identical grids; at each location, a double clue leads to two words to be 'added' to form the lights, e.g. COWED + BROTH become CRWTH + BOOED."	
2324	12/12/1974	Crossbird	Eli	195	1	"Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions."	
2325	19/12/1974	Miss Play the fool (all very seasonal)	Apex	144	2	"4 lights are Playfair-coded; other clues are MP; theme-words CHRISTMAS (HOLLY, MISTLETOE) and PUDDING (CAKE, GOOSE)."	Brazil nuts
2326	02/01/1975	Revised version	Babs	210	1	Narrative based on 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'.	
2327	09/01/1975	Miscues	Adam	196	1	"20 lights, clued by one-line quotations from Shakespearean plays, are formed as an anagram of the name of the speaker together with the next word he or she says."	
2328	16/01/1975	Triadagrid	Jac	225	2	"In 11 cases the answer to the clue is a member of a trio; one of the other two is entered where indicated, and the third is an unclued light."	
2329	23/01/1975	Clueless crossnumber - a numerical jigsaw	Philipontes	36	4R	"Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit numbers, are given and must be fitted into the grid."	
2330	30/01/1975	Odd job men	Mog	225	1	Unclued lights are from 'The CLUB of QUEER TRADES' by G.K. CHESTERTON.	
2331	06/02/1975	Electradition	Badger	180	1	Unclued lights are actors.	
2332	13/02/1975	Missing letter	Sabre	169	2	"Answers with an even number of letters are entered with their first half jumbled; initial letters of these lights spell EZRA CHAPTER SEVEN VERSE TWENTY-ONE, which contains all the alphabet except J (to be entered in the isolated central square)."	
2333	20/02/1975	Fonetik II	Ad	169	2	All answers are entered phonetically as in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary.	
2334	27/02/1975	Miss Spot the theme	Apex	144	2	"12 clues are MP; their answers, together with an unclued light, contain the alphabet in second and penultimate letters: WALLABA, SCALADE, SERFS, AGHA, FIJI, SKEWBALD, IMPORTANT, GOOPY, EQUERRY, OSTROGOTH, GUAVA, TWIXT, NYANZA."	
2335	06/03/1975	General exodus	Babs	225	1	"Unclued lights across and down and military commanders and the places where they died, with each corresponding pair intersecting."	
2336	13/03/1975	On reflection	Jago	144	2	Clues are DLM; symmetrically opposite lights read in opposite directions. Unclued lights are owners of magic mirrors.	
2337	27/03/1975	Theme and Variations - VIII	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words FIRE (SACK, SHOOT); AIR (HEIR, ERE); EARTH (SETT, DREY); WATER (CONISTON, DERWENT)."
2338	03/04/1975	Hunt the gowk	Salamanca	161	2	"Each clue has two subsidiary indications, leading to two spellings of the same word; middle row (unchecked) reads APRIL FOOL."
2339	10/04/1975	Glover-Kind's favourite place	ffancy	144	2	Unclued lights can be preceded by 'SEA-'.
2340	24/04/1975	Reason it out	Nibor	144	4	"From each clue one letter has been removed, and must be added to the answer somewhere to form the light; these letters are ETAONISR (the beginning of the sequence of letter usage in English) repeated 6 times."
2341	01/05/1975	Magic cube	Vatsayana	27	4R	Numerical puzzle; grid is a 3 x 3 x 3 cube with faces semi-magic and internal squares fully magic.
2342	08/05/1975	Quo Vadis? - VII	Jeffec	169	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge."
2343	22/05/1975	Who's who in the theatre	Fudge	196	1	19 lettered clues lead to Shakespearean characters; the lights are aliases they adopted.
2344	29/05/1975	Something tossed up to Babs	Politicaster	169	1	"Copying Babs' puzzle no. 1523, each light is entered with a pair of adjacent letters transposed; certain diagonals spell ''TIS HARD TO SETTLE ORDER ONCE AGAIN'."
2345	05/06/1975	The fish is off	Sam	144	2	"All across answers, and two down, are entered with a fish removed."
2346	19/06/1975	Keywords	Jago	144	2	"10 asterisked clues are double DLM, leading to the light and its encoded form (replacing ABCDEF...Z by QWERTY...M); all other lights are entered encoded."
2347	26/06/1975	Crossword and Puzzle	Sabre	196	2	"All lights are entered misprinted, with half the clues indicating the misprinted form. Each of the sixteen 3 x 3 squares into which the grid may be divided contains a jumbled 9-letter word; when these are written in an array, their initial and final letters spell TAKE IN ORDER THE CLUES' SECOND LETTERS, which gives NOW READ DOWN THE CENTRAL LINE OF THE SIXTEEN WORDS, leading to SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS, which are to be entered in a separate grid so that an arrowed column contains ELITISM."
2348	03/07/1975	He is no longer	Apex	273	1	"Grid represents a Memorial, in two (nearly) equal parts; clues are paired, with those down being LL, spelling '... ALIVE THERE IS A GREAT DEAL TO BE SAID FOR BEING DEAD' by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY (b. 1875, unclued central row)."
2349	17/07/1975	Overlaps V	Babs	196	1R	Six chains of eight 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps run from the top left corner to the bottom right.
2350	24/07/1975	Araucaria imbricata	Peto	169	2	16 lights are monkeys and appear as letter-mixtures in their clues (which do not otherwise indicate them).
2351	31/07/1975	Tricubicals	Rhombus	72	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form  A, B, C, a, b, c,  where both  A, B, C  and  a, b, c  are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, the sums of whose cubes are equal and also contain the 9 positive digits."
2352	14/08/1975	Prize selection	Klick	169	2	15 unclued lights are titles of novels (possible selections for those who win book tokens as prizes).
2353	21/08/1975	Diamond flush	Salamanca	144	1	"In each light at least one square must contain two letters; order in these squares is flexible, but when written correctly they spell famous dogs."
2354	28/08/1975	Where the place? - II	Jeffec	225	1	"22 lights are placenames mentioned in Shakespeare, clued in random order by quotations."
2355	11/09/1975	Arosti	Merlin	144	2	"Across clues are LL, with omissions each occurring twice, spelling LISTENER CROSSWORDS."
2356	18/09/1975	A la carte	Egma	156	13R	"Grid is circular with jumbled radial 5-letter lights; one circle contains the alphabet in order, while the outermost circle contains the 13 card denominations in French."
2357	25/09/1975	Justyn Print - IV	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Continental Breakfast' leads to ROLAND BUTTER."
2358	09/10/1975	One-way theme	Ram	144	2	In each across clue the letters of the light are concealed according to some systematic rule; each rule is used twice.
2359	16/10/1975	Nesting birds - VI	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
2360	23/10/1975	All aboard	Jago	100	2	"Clues, unnumbered, are given in the order of numbers on a dartboard; unclued lights are BULLSEYE, TREBLE, DOUBLE, DARTS."
2361	06/11/1975	Orienteering	Salamanca	120	2	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates given by letter-pairs. Clues are in groups, preceded by one in capital letters whose solution, taken in pairs, provides the locations for the initial letters of the lights."
2362	13/11/1975	Two square prime	Slavko	81	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  x + y = z  with  x, y  squares and  z  prime. Some locations are given; the remainder are to be deduced."
2363	20/11/1975	Vade mecum	Mog	144	2	"Theme-words (past and present editors of Chambers') DAVIDSON (NATHAN, SOLOMON); GEDDIE (LUCE, LANGUISH); DICKIE (DICK, RICK); MACDONALD (ASQUITH, MACMILLAN)."
2364	04/12/1975	Guinean	Egma	196	2	Unclued lights are cyclic permutations of snakes (title is really ANGUINE).
2365	11/12/1975	Jane	Babs	225	1	"Italicised clues all relate Jane Austen (b. 16/12/1775); 6 lead to first names of young ladies in her novels, 6 to words she used in a sense now archaic, and 17 to words with her spelling."
2366	18/12/1975	Twins	Sabre	196	2	Unclued lights are anagrams of some of the clued lights; no clues involve anagrams.
2367	25/12/1975	A merry TV Xmas house party	Apex	159	1	"Down clues are LL, spelling (with the central row of the grid) I MUST TAKE ENDLESS TIME WITH XMAS CRACKERS (Ximenes prizewinning clue to 26 Down, MAXIMIST)."
2368	08/01/1976	Cook's tour - XII	Zander	169	2	13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2369	15/01/1976	Variations on a theme - V	Alexis	169	1	"Theme-words ENCHANTERS (MEDEA, CIRCE, PROSPERO); DEADLY (ALLINGHAM, MARSH, CARR); BLACK (ART, DEATH, MARIA) - all NIGHTSHADEs."
2370	29/01/1976	Weather report	Salamanca	144	2	"Grid covers map of England; clues are DLM in paragraphs. 12 crossing pairs of lights contain names of weather symbols, to be entered symbolically."
2371	05/02/1976	Topped and tailed - II	Klick	169	2	Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2372	12/02/1976	Group effort	Smokey	144	2	"Clues are grouped according to light-length, given in alphabetical order of light within each group."
2373	26/02/1976	Out of the Ark	Sam	130	2	Each across answer loses an animal to form the light.
2374	04/03/1976	Patchwork Patience	Leon	53	2R	"Numerical puzzle; the pack, apart from 3 cards from different suits, is dealt into a 7 x 7 square. Clues are given to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) in rows and columns. Exposed cards are built onto bases in suits in ascending or descending order (with Ace following King and preceding 2)."
2375	11/03/1976	Overlaps VI	Babs	176	1R	"4 rows and 4 columns comprise three 8-letter words with 4-letter overlaps, e.g. MINUTESTTUBEROSE; clues to these are run together."
2376	25/03/1976	Dissection	Sabre	125	4	"Grid comprises octagons and squares. Lights are 5-letter, with each clue also defining a 4-letter word obtained by removing a letter; the letter removed is entered centrally, spelling 'THOU CUNNINGST PATTERN OF EXCELLING NATURE'."
2377	01/04/1976	Disbarred	Zander	144	4	Grid is blank; initial letters of clues spell ACROSS MEANS DOWN AND VICE VERSA - APRIL FOOL!
2378	08/04/1976	Bent words	ffancy	144	2	"12 unclued lights are misprinted names of counties (as in title - KENT, WORCS.)."
2379	22/04/1976	Hex	Jago	169	2R	"Grid comprises hexagons; clues are DLM, with lights 6-letter, entered around numbered hexagons. Perimeter contains WITCH OF ENDOR, MEDEA, CIRCE, HECATE, MERLIN, ARCHIMAGO, FAUST."
2380	29/04/1976	The following names	Babs	156	1	18 unclued lights form a chain of proper names: JULIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS JOHN OWEN THOMAS CHARLES CHESTER ARTHUR HALLAM TENNYSON JESSE JAMES LUKE GIORDANO BRUNO WALTER SCOTT.
2381	06/05/1976	AnaCyph - IX	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'I'VE A MOUTH LIKE AN OLD POTATO AND I'M MORE THAN A LITTLE SICK', from CELLS by KIPLING (third circle)."
2382	20/05/1976	Redundancies	Apex	144	2	"Each across light is paired with that symmetrically opposite; each clue is double DLM, with a separating superfluous word, whose initial letters spell ALL HEARTLESS. Accordingly, each down light omits its central letter."
2383	27/05/1976	Seven-a-side	Rhombus	80	4R	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  3x? + 4y? = 7z?,  with  z  prime."
2384	03/06/1976	An alphabetic	Leiruza	169	2	"Clues are given according to the alphabetical order of their lights, starting at a random position."
2385	17/06/1976	A difficult matter	Bart	225	1	Unclued lights are THE NAMING OF CATS and names appearing in 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.	
2386	24/06/1976	Leaving their tails behind them	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented terminally by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."	
2387	01/07/1976	The Listener Crossword III	Klick	169	2	"Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. JUPITER leads to JEW + PITTER."	
2388	15/07/1976	Alphabetical discard	Sam	144	1	"Across clues are LL, spelling the alphabet in order."	
2389	22/07/1976	Sounds familiar	Brym	156	2	"Italicised clues define homophones of the lights, which are proper names."	
2390	29/07/1976	Who's who? - II (or Six Characters in Search of an Author)	Adam	165	1	Unclued lights are names and titular descriptions of characters from Moli?re's comedies.	
2391	12/08/1976	Egocentric	Creighton	144	2	"Across lights are misprinted, with new letters spelling CREIGHTON IS A GENIUS; half the lights in each direction are entered in reverse. 6 down lights are encoded by replacing each letter by that preceding it in the alphabet."	
2392	19/08/1976	Musical switch - II	Strebor	169	1	"Lights are entered letter by letter; a chain of 25 composers, written alternately forwards and backwards and with 1-letter overlaps, forms a spiral."	
2393	26/08/1976	Two in one	Sabre	225	2	"The 26 unclued lights each contain a double letter, with each letter of the alphabet used once; superfluous words in 26 of the clues define the unclued lights."	
2394	09/09/1976	'Mastermind'	Apex	97	2	Across clues are DLM; down clues are PD. Playfair-coded forms of two lights are given.	Galsworthy
2395	16/09/1976	Tricubicals - II	Rhombus	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; each clue leads to three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, the sum of whose cubes also contains the 9 positive digits."	
2396	23/09/1976	Sixes and sevens - X	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.	
2397	07/10/1976	Inside out	Duck	144	4	"Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear."	
2398	14/10/1976	All set for the ...	Apex	180	2	"Down clues are LL, spelling first 12 and last 12 letters of ... LISTENER CROSSWORD SETTERS' ANNUAL DINNER (central 12 appear in central row), entered in 'seats' above and below the grid. Setters' names in down clues stand for their initial letters."	
2399	21/10/1976	Two by two	Buff	144	2	"4 lights are clued numerically using atomic numbers and chemical symbols, taking numbers and letters in pairs, e.g. 182066 leads to Argon, Calcium, Dysprosium which gives ARCADY."	
2400	04/11/1976	Odious	Bart	196	1	"20 answers are replaced by the other halves of clich?s, e.g. PICTURE leads to PRETTY, SAFE leads to HOUSES."	
2401	11/11/1976	Square	Sabre	144	2	All answers are encoded; the 6 unclued lights are perfect squares.	Crossword 2401 Square by Sabre
2402	18/11/1976	16D(8) 39D(8) [Quantity Surveyor]	Babs	225	1	Narrative including some verses.	
2403	02/12/1976	Four Ways	Generalissimo	144	2	"There are 4 methods of entry, each used equally often: normal, reversed, with head at tail and with tail at head."	
2404	09/12/1976	Tribasic	Batrachian	225	1	"Lights are entered by replacing each letter by its numerical value in base 3, e.g. RADS leads to 200111201."	
2405	16/12/1976	Wordplay	Jago	150	2	All clued lights lose S on entry; unclued lights are swords (title being SWORDPLAY).	
2406	23/12/1976	A merry TV Christmas tree party	Apex	132	2	Answers to asterisked clues omit trees on entry; other clues are DLM.	
2407	06/01/1977	Double harness	Leiruza	144	2	Lights are entered along two knight's tours; one row spells THE LISTENER.	
2408	13/01/1977	Lost Rivers	Alexis	169	1	"Theme-words ROCHESTER (YORK, DURHAM, RIPON); REED (FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET); EYRE (LINES, COMMODORE, STOP) - all characters of CHARLOTTE Bront?."	
2409	27/01/1977	Odd man out	Algol	144	1	"8 groups of 5 words are given; in each, 4 have something in common, indicated by an unclued across light, while the odd man out leads somehow to one of the unclued down lights."	
2410	03/02/1977	Olla podrida - III	Klick	169	2	"Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. RAIL-SPLITTER leads to LAIR."	
2411	10/02/1977	Word Sums - IX	Proton	143	1	"Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers."	
2412	24/02/1977	Unlettered	Nibor	144	4	"Clues are to be taken in groups of 8; within each group, the nth letter of the word LITERACY has been removed from the nth clue and must be inserted in its answer to form the light."	
2413	03/03/1977	Head-hunting - XI	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'I HANG 'MID MEN MY NEEDLESS HEAD'.	
2414	10/03/1977	Sam Long	Nizam	196	2	Title is meant to suggest 'Long Psalm' (no. 119); unclued lights are its section headings.	
2415	24/03/1977	Alphabetical extracts	Ploutos	144	2	"Each clue defines one word and gives a subsidiary indication to another (the light), obtained by omitting a letter; each letter of the alphabet is omitted once across and once down."	
2416	31/03/1977	Magic glass	Aelfre	204	2	"Grid represents crossword seen in broken mirror; the theme is 'The Lady of Shalott', with several clues and lights being thematic. Central broken area spells 'THE MIRROR CRACK'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE'."	
2417	07/04/1977	Double acrostic	Adam	132	2	Initial and final letters of across lights spell MARTIN CHUZZLEWITT (sic) and GREAT EXPECTATIONS.	
2418	21/04/1977	Counter measures	Bart	169	1	"Certain answers contain numbers in English, French, German or Italian, to be replaced by the corresponding numerals."	
2419	28/04/1977	Missing faces	Ad	120	4R	"36 cubes, with one letter on each face, form a 6 x 6 square with touching faces bearing the same letter. Clues are given to the 6-letter words formed around the edges, across the rows, and on each cube."	
2420	05/05/1977	Schizogrammata - II	ffancy	128	2	There are two identical grids. The alphabet is divided into two categories (letters with and without a vertical axis of symmetry) and each light is split between the two grids accordingly. Clues are normal or DLM according as the light begins in the first or second grid.	
2421	19/05/1977	Two square prime - II	Slavko	168	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  x + y = z  with  x, y  squares and  z  prime; they are given in 8 groups, such that within each group any prime on the left and any on the right contain between them the positive digits other than 5. Some locations are given; the remainder are to be deduced."	
2422	26/05/1977	Anonymous	Sam	144	2	Each across clue defines a word and gives a subsidiary indication to a surname; the corresponding Christian name is subtracted from the word to form the light.	
2423	02/06/1977	A jubilant TV play	Apex	168	1	"Theme-words ELIZABETH (BANJO, NUTMEG, GAMY); PHILIP (LARKIN, SIDNEY); CHARLES (BIBLES, IDLES); ANNE (BRONT?, STA?L); ANDREW (WARDEN, WARNED); EDWARD (GERMAN, ELGAR). Five of the variations are clued and entered Playfair-coded."	The family group
2424	16/06/1977	Triplet	Babs	144	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters LET in some order.	
2425	23/06/1977	Play theme and fairiations	Jude	154	2	"Theme-words PEASEBLOSSOM (PEASCOD, SQUASH); COBWEB (GOSSAMER, SILK); MOTH (TIGER, PUSS); MUSTARDSEED (HORSERADISH, PEPPER). Six lights are Playfair-coded."	Starveling
2426	30/06/1977	Un titled	Sabre	165	2	"Four unclued lights have 'nothing in common': GENER-ZERO-AL, F-NIL-REQUENT, ORDIN-NIX-ARY, U-NOUGHT-SUAL."	
2427	14/07/1977	Missing links - XII	Zander	144	2	14 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.	
2428	21/07/1977	A double harness 'All the Queen's horses'	Leiruza	148	2	"Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube, containing ELIZABETH REGINA, THE SILVER JUBILEE, 19 77; lights are entered along two knight's tours."	
2429	28/07/1977	Take your pick - II	Ploutos	144	2	"Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram."	
2430	11/08/1977	"You name it, you've got it"	Klick	169	2	"The 16 unclued lights are 8 names and 8 words associated with their possessives: ADAM's APPLE, ARISTOTLE's LANTERN, CHANDLER's WOBBLE, CULVER's ROOT, MACFARLANE's BUAT, PELE's HAIR, PHARAOH's SERPENT, SAMSON's POST."	
2431	18/08/1977	Seconds out	Ascot	144	2	Each answer loses its second letter on entry.	
2432	25/08/1977	Diametricode - IX	Babs	156	1R	Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.	
2433	08/09/1977	A 'Listener' setter's rule book	Apex	128	4	"There are two identical grids; clues are LL (spelling I NEED NOT MEAN WHAT I SAY BUT I MUST SAY WHAT I MEAN), given in pairs separated by superfluous words whose initials spell THE ART OF THE CROSSWORD."	
2434	15/09/1977	Side by side	Generalissimo	144	2	"Each row contains two words (with the separating bar removed), clued together in either order."	
2435	22/09/1977	Adam	Mass	144	2	8 across and 8 down answers lose RIB on entry.	
2436	06/10/1977	Short-sighted	Machiavelli	144	2	Unclued lights are diocesan abbreviations.	
2437	13/10/1977	More or less	Virgilius	144	4	"Each clue leads to two words, one showing how to modify the other to form the light, e.g. PAINTER, TERMINUS lead to PAIN. Half the lights are formed by addition, half by subtraction."	
2438	20/10/1977	Old Misery	Alexis	168	1	"Theme-words SCROOGE (MARLEY, GHOST); HARPAGON (CLARSACH, LUTE); VOLPONE (VIXEN, REYNARD); GORIOT (GORDON, PORTEOUS); EUCLIO (EUTERPE, CALLIOPE)."	
2439	03/11/1977	Lancework	Salamanca	124	4R	"Grid is made of overlapping circles; all lights are 5-letter, with initial or final letter entered in central region, spelling HIS VERBAL PYROTECHNICS ARE ENTERTAINING."	
2440	10/11/1977	My cousin's bungle	Waterloo	169	1	"Lights are entered any way up, with B, D, P, Q written in lower case and I with extravagant bars at top and bottom; other letters are normal (so that Z rotates to N and W to M)."	
2441	17/11/1977	No discrimination	Phiz	144	4	"In 15 answers a boy's name must be replaced by a girl's, or vice versa, e.g. MONTROSE leads to MONTCLIVE."	
2442	01/12/1977	Sound Cameras	Klick	169	1	"10 unclued across lights, matched in pairs with 5 unclued down lights, give examples (in Chambers' 1977) of certain consonants: LEPRECHAUN, CORONACH, LOCH; CAT, CHORUS, KING; QUITE, COIFFEUR, QUEEN; LANGUOR, LONGER, FINGER; GENTLE, LEDGE, JUDGE."	
2443	08/12/1977	Roundabouts	Leiruza	178	2	"Grid is the net of an icosahedron; lights are entered along two spiral paths, each from one vertex to its opposite."	
2444	15/12/1977	Curve magic	Vatsayana	25	5R	"Numerical puzzle; grid consists of five circles divided by five spokes, with sums along radii, circles, spirals and cardioids all equal. Some initial clues are given."	
2445	22/12/1977	A _________ box (kindly meant)	Apex	132	1	"6 across and 6 down clues are misprinted; these lights, in pairs, occur in 'Christmas' by Betjeman. Half the remaining clues are PD; shaded squares may be rearranged to spell THE POET LAUREATE."	
2446	05/01/1978	A Happy New Year	Duck	144	2	"Four 6-letter across lights (SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER) are Playfair-coded and clued only by the remaining across lights, which have LL clues spelling 'THE FOUR SEASONS'."	Chimney-stalk
2447	12/01/1978	Three-in-one - II	Babs	144	1	Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.	
2448	26/01/1978	Maze	Ram	144	2	Grid is numbered and barred; lights may not cross bars but may turn in any direction. Each square is used exactly twice.	
2449	02/02/1978	AnaCyph - X	Chabon	141	3R	"Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'WEARILY THE SENTRY MOVES MUTTERING THE ONE WORD 'PEACE'' from PICKET by ALDINGTON (last 12 letters occurring in third circle)."	
2450	09/02/1978	Musical chairs	Smokey	169	2	"Each across clue is a subsidiary indication to a word with a musical connection, which must lose its initial and/or final letter on entry."	
2451	23/02/1978	Q.E.D.	Jude	200	4	"Three square grids surround a 6, 8, 10 triangle; letters from the smaller two combine to give those of the third. Clues are in random order for the 6 x 6 grid and in alphabetical order of light for the 8 x 8 grid; some indications are given in the 10 x 10 grid, but 5-letter lights are unclued."	
2452	02/03/1978	Justyn Print - V	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Bullets in Dallas' leads to ANNA SASSIN."	
2453	09/03/1978	Double sixes	Adam	144	4	"There are twelve 6-letter lights; six are entered encoded by a cipher determined by the other six, e.g. UPFLOW means that P and F, and L and O, encode each other (twelve pairs are thus obtained and the thirteenth can then be deduced)."	
2454	23/03/1978	Eight bells	Ploutos	144	2	All answers lose ON on entry (eight bells = noon).	
2455	30/03/1978	Very dicy	Virgilius	129	1	"Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube, representing a die with black spots in appropriate squares. Letters are replaced by the digits 1 to 6, such that the name of the digit contains the letters it replaces; intersections clear up ambiguities, and numbers match along edges."	
2456	06/04/1978	Around the table	Apex	152	1	"Perimeter contains J.B. PRIESTLEY, MICHAEL FOOT, DENNIS POTTER, D.A.N. JONES, all celebrating the BIRTHDAY of WILLIAM HAZLITT (b. 10/04/1778). Clues are paired (one in each pair being misprinted), separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell 'ON THE PLEASURE OF MATING'."	
2457	20/04/1978	Attention please	Duck	225	1	Unclued lights can be preceded by EAR.	
2458	27/04/1978	The decipherment of Linear C	Egma	130	2	"3 unidentified lights (PLAYFAIR, MINOAN, PERIOD) are encoded in 'Linear C', i.e., Playfair with this as codeword."	Linear C
2459	04/05/1978	Offstage	Fudge	156	1R	"36 lights form an endless chain with 2- or 3-letter overlaps. Alternate links are names of people hinted at, but not appearing in, Shakespearean plays, with 'helpful hints' instead of clues; in each of 11 columns a light is entered letter by letter."	
2460	18/05/1978	Cook's tour - XIII	Zander	169	2	14 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items (or ingredients) of food or drink.	
2461	25/05/1978	Heads and tails IV	Babs	169	1	The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.	
2462	01/06/1978	Magic Square Bedecked	Leon	98	1	"Card puzzle: two aces and a 5 are removed from the pack, and the remaining cards form a 7 x 7 magic square. Suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4); each rank is replaced by a letter and clues are given to anagrams of lights across, down and diagonally."	
2463	15/06/1978	The Gaffer	Salamanca	144	2	"Across lights are misprinted on the diagonals, which spell LAPSUS CALAMI and SLIP OF THE PEN."	
2464	22/06/1978	Jig-Word	Eel	144	2	"The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one, containing the letters I M M N O O O O S W, is upside-down). Clues are given in random order."	
2465	29/06/1978	Privileged class	Klick	169	2	"6 unclued lights in each direction may be paired to form animals admitted to MOHAMMED's PARADISE: BALAAM's ASS, BILKIS's CUCKOO, SOLOMON's ANT, SALEH's CAMEL, JONAH's WHALE, ABRAHAM's CALF."
2466	13/07/1978	Capital hoax	Sabre	132	2	"Each answer loses a letter on entry, spelling 'IT IS A CAPITAL HOAX TO THEORISE BEFORE ONE HAS DATA'. Preamble says unclued lights are given by taking 'initial letters of 24 of the across lights', meaning TOTAL (and COMPLETE and SUM), rather than the initial letters of the lights themselves, which are LONDONATHENSIASORLMOSCOW."
2467	20/07/1978	Oxford associations	Apex	144	2	"5 across and 5 down lights, identified by having misprinted definitions, give 'CUCKOO-ECHOING, BELL-SWARMED, LARK-CHARMED, ROOK-RACKED, RIVER-ROUNDED', from 'Duns Scotus's Oxford' by Gerard Manley HOPKINS (unclued)."
2468	27/07/1978	Christian hope	Duck	168	1	"Grid is church-shaped; clues are LL, spelling 'GOD IS DECREEING TO BEGIN SOME NEW AND GREAT PERIOD IN HIS CHURCH'."
2469	10/08/1978	Gazetteer - Volume I	Ploutos	144	2	"12 unidentified clues lead to words forming half the name of an English town, the light being the other half, e.g. ABBAS leads to COMBE. All towns begin with A, B or C."
2470	17/08/1978	Lay off Macduff	Egma	169	1	"14 unclued lights are names of lighthouses (Macduff, another lighthouse, is not included)."
2471	24/08/1978	Football crazy	Ascot	144	2	"Clues are DLM; there are 3 types of entry - keepers (normal), halfbacks (with either first or second half reversed) and centre-forwards (with centre of light moved to front). Two unclued lights are 'wingless wonders': (C)OLOSSU(S), (P)YRAMID(S)."
2472	07/09/1978	Crossbird II	Eli	195	1	"Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions."
2473	14/09/1978	Interdepartmental	Adam	189	1	"16 lights contain names of French d?partements; associated numbers are entered in a separate grid, along with certain products."
2474	21/09/1978	Absorb and dawn	Salamanca	144	2	"Title is really 'Across and Down'; in across lights vowels remain constant but consonants change, while in down lights consonants remain constant but vowels change (all lights still being words)."
2475	05/10/1978	Heads and tails V	Babs	169	1	The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.
2476	12/10/1978	Last seen disappearing ...	Apex	121	1	"Down clues are LL, spelling (with central row of grid) HID IN STRANGE BOXES COMPLETELY CUT OFF - clue to HOUDINI (unclued)."
2477	19/10/1978	Displaced persons IV	Peto	121	2	Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
2478	02/11/1978	What's the point?	Aelfre	144	2	"Unclued lights are sizes of type, whose 'points' are given by their grid numbers (which are necessarily misplaced), e.g. 12 Across is PICA, 3? Across is BRILLIANT."
2479	09/11/1978	All set for a merry ...	Apex	180	2	"Down clues are LL, spelling first 12 and last 12 letters of ... PARTY OF HAPPY LISTENER CROSSWORD SOLVERS (central 12 appear in central row), entered in 'seats' above and below the grid. Solvers' names in down clues stand for their initial letters."
2480	16/11/1978	Hour-glass - X	Zander	140	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'AND WHEN THYSELF WITH SHINING FOOT SHALL PASS AMONG THE GUESTS STAR-SCATTERED ON THE GRASS, AND IN THY JOYOUS ERRAND REACH THE SPOT WHERE I MADE ONE - TURN DOWN AN EMPTY GLASS!'"
2481	30/11/1978	Game Warden	Generalissimo	144	2	"10 unclued lights can be preceded by 'Scotch': ATTORNEY, TAPE, COLLOPS, DRAPER, TERRIER, ELM, SNAP, BONNET, PEBBLE, FIR. Puzzle marks St. Andrew's day (game = maimed)."	
2482	07/12/1978	"Last year ASIA, this year SARK (and JAIL next year!)"	Sal and Sim	100	4	"As exemplified in the title, in each light the nth letter is replaced by the positive digit obtained by subtracting  n  from its numerical value, reducing modulo 9 and adding 1."	
2483	14/12/1978	Peace formula	Duck	144	4	"Lights are encoded, half by replacing each letter by its predecessor in the alphabet and half by using successors; for each method, half the lights are entered forwards and half backwards. Every fourth clue is DLM and is designed for Consumer Viewpoint fans 'as a compromise'."	
2484	21/12/1978	Selection box	Mass	221	2	"11 clues have misprinted definition, while 11 have misprinted lights; 11 must gain and 11 must lose a letter, spelling 'I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE XMAS'. 4 lights are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are confections, mixed fruits, mixed nuts and XMAS GREETINGS TO LISTENER SOLVERS."	Snowflake
2485	04/01/1979	The Listener wishes you ...	Ascot	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling ... A LOT OF SUCCESSFUL SOLVING IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE."	
2486	11/01/1979	In other words - III	ffancy	144	2	"The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means a synonym, E-I no change, J-O an anagram, P-S an antonym and T-Z a homophone."	
2487	18/01/1979	Here's to OUR Anniversary	Apex	144	2	"Down clues are evenly divided between normal, MP and PD; across answers lose OR or AU on entry (with subsidiary indications referring to lights), to commemorate golden anniversary of The Listener."	
2488	01/02/1979	A Queen and her Dog	Leiruza	128	2	"The centre of each of sixteen 3 x 3 squares contains a rose; the queen travels horizontally and vertically while her dog performs a knight's tour, 'thoroughly examining each tree in turn'."	
2489	08/02/1979	Topped and Tailed III	Klick	169	2	Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.	
2490	15/02/1979	Some reflections	Ascot	144	2	Half the lights in each direction are entered backwards.	
2491	01/03/1979	Half and Half	Sabre	144	2	Half the lights in each direction are jumbled; only 12 different letters are used in the grid.	
2492	08/03/1979	Letters taken	Egma	144	2	"The 26 across clues are LL, spelling QWERTY...M."	
2493	15/03/1979	Decade	Babs	225	1	Narrative referring to events of 1811-1820 (the two central lights are MDCCCXI and MDCCCXX).	
2494	29/03/1979	Misprintomits	Mass	144	2	"Half the clues in each direction have misprinted definitions; the remainder have a letter omitted from the definitions. Across lights are entered misprinted, spelling ''TIS DEVILS MUST PRINT'."	
2495	05/04/1979	Lost & found	Sal & Sim	169	2	Columns and rows are labelled A-M and N-Z respectively. Clues (given in alphabetical order) comprise definitions of a 6- and two 5-letter words and a 13-letter anagram of all three with a letter common to each removed; this letter indicates the row or column concerned.	
2496	12/04/1979	Biliteral	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each across answer loses a double letter on entry (with subsidiary indications referring to the lights), spelling 'I COPIED ALL THE LETTERS'."	
2497	26/04/1979	Theme and Variations IX	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words SPEECH (TMESIS, MEIOSIS); WORSHIP (MAYOR, MAGISTRATE); WANT (MOLE, TALPA); FEAR (FRAE, FARE) - the four freedoms."	
2498	03/05/1979	Tips off	Ascot	144	2	Answers lose their initial and final letters on entry.	
2499	10/05/1979	Points don't count (2)	Hal	144	1	"Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored."	
2500	24/05/1979	Floreat in Aeternum	"Ploutos, Babs, Sam, Apex, Klick, Zander"	720	1R	"Grid is an L shape comprising five 12 x 12 grids: Diametricode, Alphabetical Cocktail, Play Quiz, Topped and Tailed, Sixes and Sevens. Central message reads THE LISTENER CROSSWORD CELEBRATES TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED: GESUNDHEIT."	Questionably
2501	31/05/1979	Small change II	Klick	169	2	Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.	
2502	07/06/1979	Figure it out	Alban	144	2	"Half the answers in each direction contain names of numerals, ignored in subsidiary indications; they are replaced by the numerals on entry, e.g. LEONINE leads to LEO9."	
2503	21/06/1979	No I	Nizam	144	1	Across clues contain no instances of the letter 'I'; each down clue contains at least one. All answers end in I; all instances of I are removed on entry.	
2504	05/07/1979	Solitaire II	Leon	36	4R	"Card puzzle; the pack, less clubs and aces, is dealt in a solitaire shape with one position empty. Clues are given to products along diagonals of ranks and suits (D = 2, H = 3, S = 5). The solitaire is played, with superior cards jumping inferior ones (order being KS, ..., 2S, KH, ..., 2H, KD, ..., 2D)."	
2505	12/07/1979	Hesiod's V	Jago	169	1	"5 unclued lights in each direction begin or end adjoining 5 isolated squares; the pairs of lights give Hesiod's 5 ages, and the squares contain the associated zodiacal signs."	
2506	19/07/1979	Review	Babs	225	1	Narrative including several 'poems'.	
2507	26/07/1979	Theme and Variations	Ascot	169	2	"Theme-words NEWMARKET (EUCHRE, SNAP); YORK (CHESTER, LANCASTER); WINDSOR (HARLECH, CONWAY); DONCASTER (TRANMERE, BRISTOL)."	
2508	02/08/1979	Honeycode	Jude	169	6R	"Grid is hexagonal with 7-letter lights entered in and around numbered hexagons, which spell 'THOU WHORESON ZED! THOU UNNECESSARY LETTER!' 6 corner lights are coded by placing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order (except Z) in a 5 x 5 square, and encoding each letter as the one symmetrically opposite (central letter and Z encode each other)."	Jack-in-the-box
2509	09/08/1979	Slightly Chipped	Duck	161	2	Each answer loses its initial or final letter on entry; initial and final omissions each exhaust the alphabet.	
2510	16/08/1979	Lastaddomits	Mass	144	2	"Each answer loses its last letter on entry, the letter concerned being either added to or subtracted from the definition."	
2511	23/08/1979	Snakes and Ladders VII	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."	
2512	30/08/1979	A Double Harness	Leiruza	100	2R	"Lights are entered along two knight's tours; 26 letters are already entered, spelling LOGODAEDALIST and METAGROBOLISE along separate knight's tours."	
2513	06/09/1979	Pray Fair	Jude	143	1	"Grid comprises two equal halves and a central column, linked by 1 Across (DOUBLE-CROSSER). Clues to corresponding lights are paired, with one normal and one MP in each pair, appearing in either order; 4 lights are Playfair-coded, with codeword entered in central column."	Clergywoman
2514	13/09/1979	Armchair Detective	Sabre	144	2	Each light is formed by adding a superfluous letter to the answer. Diagonals spell CO-ARSENIC-COA and DUC-BODY-KPOND.	
2515	20/09/1979	Morphallaxis	Novamor	144	2	"Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers."	
2516	27/09/1979	Head-hunting - XII	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'HIS HEART RUNS AWAY WITH HIS HEAD'.	
2517	04/10/1979	41 down [Egma]	Mime	169	2	"8 unclued lights are utterers of 6 Shakespearean malapropisms, clued normally but entered as said."	
2518	11/10/1979	Word-ladder	Sam	80	2R	Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.	
2519	18/10/1979	Sid	Klick	169	2	14 unclued lights are middle names of American preSIDents.	
2520	25/10/1979	Musical chairs	Nizam	144	4	"Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers with a letter removed; the letters removed in each direction are the same, but in a different order."	
2521	01/11/1979	Where It's At	Virgilius	169	2	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue has inserted in it a cryptic indication of the light's starting square (row first for across, column for down). Clues are given in random order."	
2522	08/11/1979	Surprising One	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling TO JAMES EMLYN EVANS OUR CROSSWORD CHECKER and given in symmetrical pairs separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell THE ONE YOU DID NOT VET."	
2523	15/11/1979	"(1, 3, 2)"	Rhombus	62	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  (X, Y, Z),  meaning  X + (X + 1) + (X + 2) + ... + (X + Z - 1) = (X + Z) + (X + Z + 1) + ... + Y."	
2524	22/11/1979	Missing Faces II	Ad	120	4R	"36 cubes, with one letter on each face, form a 6 x 6 square with touching faces bearing the same letter. Clues are given to the 6-letter words formed around the edges, across the rows, and on each cube."	
2525	29/11/1979	Pardon the Interruption ...	Jago	150	2	Clues are DLM; each light is 'interrupted' once by a crossing but non-intersecting light.	
2526	06/12/1979	Wordsquares	Sabre	250	1	"Most answers lose letters on entry which, taken in rows or columns as appropriate, form 'codewords' when encoded as follows: each letter is associated with a number between 1 and 26, and the letter associated with  n  is replaced by the nth letter of the alphabet. Taking 26 as 0, all 'codewords' are squares in base 26."	
2527	13/12/1979	Mass	Adam	144	1	"14 lights are the second halves of 'M and S' pairs, with the first half being clued, e.g. MARKS leads to SPENCER, MOODY leads to SANKEY, MYCROFT leads to SHERLOCK."	
2528	20/12/1979	A Christmas Cake	Duck	150	1	"Grid is circular with 25 radial lights either jumbled or Playfair-coded; 3 circles contain normal lights having misprinted DLM clues; the other 3 contain the letters of the Playfair square in order, ILEX AQUIFOLIUM/HEDERA HELIX and MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR."	Cold turkey
2529	03/01/1980	Sixes and Sevens - XI	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2530	10/01/1980	Letters patent	Malexia	144	4	"Lights across are entered with omitted letters and those down are misprinted, with omitted and misprinted letters both spelling 'THE MOTHER OF INVENTION' (title is 'setters' parent' misprinted); each misprint is given by a different across light. Half the clues in each direction are MP; in the other half, the subsidiary indication gives the light."
2531	17/01/1980	"Year In, Year Out"	Smokey	196	2	"12 lettered double clues lead to words containing (in order) JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC and words with them removed; these lights are to be entered in locations to be discovered."
2532	24/01/1980	Diametricode X	Babs	156	1R	Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights; 2 normal clues are given in encoded form.
2533	31/01/1980	Brave New World	Egma	144	2	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates and a line of footprints, which contain names of Red Indian tribes (unclued); most other lights are jumbled."
2534	07/02/1980	Mixed doubles	Virgilius	256	4	"There are four identical grids; at each location, two clues are given, each leading to two lights."
2535	14/02/1980	Cross My Heart	Jude	208	1R	"Grid has a central heart, cutting some across lights; each across light is paired with a word in the heart, and a double clue leads to them with the 'heart' clue LL, spelling 'OBSCURE EPISTLES OF LOVE'. Down clues, apart from those in the first and last columns, are PD."
2536	21/02/1980	"25 Ac., 57 Dn."	Sal and Sim	100	4	"As exemplified in the title, in each light each letter is encoded as the positive digit congruent modulo 9 to the sum of its numerical value and its position in the light."
2537	28/02/1980	'University Terms'	Phiz	196	2	"Each one-word clue leads to an answer containing a word associated with the name of a university, which replaces it to form the light, e.g. VILLAINOUS leads to ASTONINOUS."
2538	06/03/1980	Right and Left	Sol	144	1	"Apart from 1 Across, the grid is divided into two identical halves; each location has a double clue."
2539	13/03/1980	Illicit Threesomes	Duck	144	2	"15 unpositioned lights form 5 'illicit threesomes' (with three-word alliterative clues), in which a phrase 'A and B' is fused with a phrase or compound word 'BC' to make 'A and BC', e.g. PESTLE and MORTAR BOARD."
2540	20/03/1980	A Chap To Attend Yearly For It	Apex	192	2	"9 unclued lights are the surnames of members of The Listener's editorial staff; Christian names appear in the perimeter, whose unchecked letters may be arranged to form the title. In the clues, setters' and solvers' names stand for their initial letters."
2541	27/03/1980	Stuffed Pairs	Generalissimo	132	2	"Across lights are 12-letter, comprising one word within another, e.g. FLESH-INFORM-Y; clues are double with either word clued first."
2542	03/04/1980	3.4.80	Adam	144	1	"Narrative describing 'The PIRATES of PENZANCE', with 10 normal clues."
2543	10/04/1980	Mixed Bag	Klick	169	2	"30 lights are 'Topped and Tailed', 12 are homophones of the answers, 1 could be either and the remainder are clued normally; certain diagonals spell 'INTOLERABLE WRESTLE WITH WORDS AND MEANINGS'."
2544	17/04/1980	Clip On Tee Peg	Zander	144	4	"All lights are misprinted once, but are still words."
2545	24/04/1980	Hidden Verse	E.M. Holroyd	144	2	Unclued lights form 'STAR AND CORONAL AND BELL APRIL UNDERFOOT RENEWS AND THE HOPE OF MAN AS WELL FLOWERS AMONG THE MORNING DEWS'; their unchecked letters may be arranged to form ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN.
2546	01/05/1980	Consecutives	Ascot	144	2	"Across answers lose any consecutive letters on entry, e.g. HIGH-STRUNG leads to RUNG, GESTURE leads to GERE."
2547	08/05/1980	All Square	Rhombus	64	2	"Numerical puzzle with clues of the form  (x, y, z),  meaning  x? + (x + 1)? + ... + y? = z?."
2548	22/05/1980	Setters Patent	Smokey	196	2	17 lights are entered misprinted so as to contain the name of a setter; the subsidiary indication in each case refers only to the remainder of the light.
2549	29/05/1980	Stormy	Aelfre	144	2	"Clues are DLM, forming a narrative about a storm; unclued lights across and down are cats and dogs respectively."
2550	05/06/1980	Tetratriades	Nizam	196	2	"Unclued lights are CHARITES (AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE, THALIA); ERINYES (TISIPHONE, ALECTO, MEGAERA); FATES (CLOTHO, LACHESIS, ATROPOS); GORGONES (STHENO, EURYALE, MEDUSA)."
2551	12/06/1980	Comic Yarn	Bart	169	1	"23 lights are acronyms, clued by anagrams of their full forms (title is an anagram of 'acronymic')."
2552	19/06/1980	Warp and woof	ffancy	134	1	A central 5 x 5 square is formed by 'weaving' across and down lights to form 'SO FAIR A FANCY FEW WOULD WEAVE'.
2553	26/06/1980	Deduction	Miguel	80	2R	"Grid comprises hexagons and triangles, with 7-letter lights entered about numbered hexagons with one letter omitted; these spell 'AN ELEMENTARY THREE-PIPE PROBLEM', and the first and last (unclued) lights are HOLMES and WATSON."
2554	03/07/1980	Pun My Word	Hen	144	4	Half of the across definitions are puns of the correct forms; half of the down subsidiary indications lead to puns of the lights.
2555	10/07/1980	Eightsome Reels	Hotspur	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares."
2556	17/07/1980	'Je ne sais pas what to do'	Algol	169	1	In 28 clues one or more English words have been replaced by their approximate French equivalents.
2557	24/07/1980	Enigma Variations	Nibor	144	1	"13 lights related to Elgar, e.g. GERONTIUS, CIRCUMSTANCE, EDWARD, are entered encoded in the manner of the Enigma machine using as codewords the 13 names of the Enigma variations, e.g. EDWARD + EDUEDU becomes JHRFVY."
2558	31/07/1980	An Alphajig	Leiruza	100	4	"Grid is blank except for the central 4 letters; clues across and down are presented separately, in alphabetical order of the lights, which are all 4- or 6-letter."
2559	07/08/1980	Missing Links - XIII	Zander	144	2	16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2560	14/08/1980	Notation	Nizam	144	2	Unclued lights are all words lacking the suffix '-TATION'.
2561	21/08/1980	Inside Out II	Duck	144	4	"Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear."
2562	28/08/1980	A Couple of Drop Outs	Ascot	144	2	"Each answer loses two letters to form the light; the letters omitted are never the first or last, or consecutive, and never precede an unchecked letter."
2563	04/09/1980	Admission	Adam	144	4	Perimeter of the central 10 x 10 square reads 'THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE' - XVI AND V CLUE LETTERS; these spell 'MY LIFE IS SPENT IN ONE LONG EFFORT TO ESCAPE FROM THE COMMONPLACES OF EXISTENCE' - SHERLOCK HOLMES.
2564	11/09/1980	Call My Bluff	Egma	144	2	"Each clue is triple, containing two normal clues to lights to be entered elsewhere and a one-word 'correct' definition of the light."
2565	18/09/1980	Tangled Chains	E.M. Holroyd	144	2R	"Each light has 6, 8 or 10 letters, and is entered either clockwise or anti-clockwise around a bar of length 1, 2 or 3 respectively, beginning anywhere. The bars roughly form a Union Jack; the perimeter contains 'NEVER COMES THE TRADER, NEVER FLOATS AN EUROPEAN FLAG' by TENNYSON (central unclued light)."
2566	25/09/1980	Lip Service	Leon	37	4R	"Grid is a solitaire grid; 12 different letters appear in the lights, and each is given a different equivalent in base 12, with most clues referring to both the literal and the numerical forms of the lights. When the solitaire is played, pegs removed in order spell 'CORMAC MACCARTHY FORTIS ME FIERI FECIT 1446' (the inscription on the Blarney stone)."
2567	02/10/1980	Parasite Lost	MacNaughton	144	2	"Certain clues consist of the letters of the light, in alphabetical order, less those of a 'parasite' synoynm, e.g. NO (5) leads to POINT (- TIP)."
2568	09/10/1980	Cross Word [crossing at letter 'o']	Sabre	144	1	"Each answer is split into two parts, entered in different directions so as to cross at the appropriately numbered square; the difference in lengths between the two parts is given."
2569	16/10/1980	Points Don't Count (3)	Hal	144	1	"Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored."
2570	23/10/1980	Siamese Triplets	Merlin	169	2	"12 triplets are thematically related; each has a member in common with the triplets before and after it, e.g. HILARY - MICHAELMAS - TRINITY - JESUS - QUEENS' - BROOKLYN - MANHATTAN. Middle members are clued but not entered; members in two triplets are unclued and entered."
2571	30/10/1980	Jig-Word II	Eel	144	2	"The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters A I I I I N O O O U X Z Z, is on its side). Clues are given in random order."
2572	06/11/1980	Miss Printer's Devilish One-Armed Bandit	Apex	144	2	"Half the down lights of each length have MP clues, with the remaining clues PD. Across clues are normal but lead to a 12-letter word, an 8- and a 4-letter word, a 4- and an 8-letter word, or three 4-letter words."
2573	13/11/1980	9 Down [Spoonerisms]	Bart	196	1	4 central pairs of 6-letter lights give examples of SPOONERISMS; the diagonals are LOVING SHEPHERD and SHOVING LEOPARD.
2574	20/11/1980	Four Ways II	Generalissimo	144	2	"There are 4 methods of entry, each used equally often: normal, reversed, with head at tail and with tail at head."
2575	27/11/1980	1-52 [Boustrophedon]	Klick	169	2	Across lights are entered BOUSTROPHEDON.
2576	04/12/1980	Justyn Print VI	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Making an Entrance' leads to VESTA BUHL."
2577	11/12/1980	Minus Three	Babs	132	1	All lights lose the consecutive letters STU in some order.
2578	18/12/1980	Salamanca's greeting ...	Salamanca	177	1R	"Grid contains a rough outline of a tree; vertical lights read upwards or downwards form it. 18 clues have a seasonal word removed (as in PD, but the light is the answer to the restored clue). Unclued lights form I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS."
2579	01/01/1981	A Double Harness - Greetings	Leiruza	100	4	Lights are entered along two knight's tours; HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL is given in certain diagonals.
2580	08/01/1981	Teratologic	Euginnot	169	2	"8 unclued lights require a suffix involving a body part to give a listed quality, e.g. HEAVY (-HANDED for clumsiness)."
2581	15/01/1981	Mermaids	Duck	195	2	"Down lights are jumbled; across lights, clued by anagrams, are 13 'mermaids', e.g. YVETTE XIPHIAS, whose initials exhaust the alphabet."
2582	22/01/1981	Pin the Tail on the Donkey	Smokey	144	2	The 30 answers which are creatures are entered with the last letter in any position.
2583	29/01/1981	Five-a-Side Football	Ascot	143	2	"Clues are DLM, with five types of light entry: keepers (normal), full-backs (reversed), left and half-backs (with appropriate half reversed) and centre-forwards (with central letter moved to the front)."
2584	05/02/1981	Spoiled for Choice	Jago	162	2	"Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square."
2585	12/02/1981	Half Turn	Sabre	144	2	Either the first or the second half of each answer is entered jumbled.
2586	19/02/1981	Highlands and Islands	Twudge	169	1	"Narrative containing 23 unclued lights, names of Scottish islands, in either hidden or jumbled form."
2587	26/02/1981	Masque	Aelfre	144	2	"Each clue contains a number of misprints, with the correct forms of the misprints forming an anagram of the light."
2588	05/03/1981	Neutral Opinions	Adam	144	4	"Answers lose initial letters on entry, spelling 'TERENCE, THIS IS STUPID STUFF' (across) and A.E. HOUSMAN'S 'A SHROPSHIRE LAD' (down). Central letters of central words in clues spell 'QUOT HOMINES, TOT SENTENTIAE' (across) and AUTANT DE TETES, AUTANT D'AVIS (down)."
2589	12/03/1981	Nominative Cases	Mime	225	2	"Asterisked clues lead to lights with 'cases' of Dickensian characters, e.g. V-ENT-HOLES; subsidiary indications are to centres only."
2590	19/03/1981	Association	Buff	144	2	"6 answers are replaced by the other halves of football clubs, e.g. FOREST leads to NOTTINGHAM."
2591	26/03/1981	Women's Lib	Egma	144	2	Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-MAN' (across) or '-BOY' (down).
2592	02/04/1981	An Award ...	Apex	117	1	"Perimeter contains the six Listener editors, whose unchecked letters give TO ALL; there are various clue types, including LL, spelling EDITORS. Unclued central column is THE LISTENER."
2593	09/04/1981	Dyslexics Rule K.O.	Waterloo	169	1	"Some clues have dyslexic errors (e.g. SLILY for SILLY) and normal lights; all others lead to a pair of words, identical to the dyslexic, with either to be entered."
2594	16/04/1981	Decal I	Hotspur	136	2R	Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.
2595	23/04/1981	Patrons	Foxglove	144	2	"Extra letters in clues spell 'AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT'; 10 unclued lights are surnames with Christian name GEORGE (puzzle marks St. George's day)."
2596	30/04/1981	Ups and Downs	Hen	168	2	"5 snakes 'wriggle' downwards, and 3 ladders climb upwards, from the end of one across light to the beginning of another; across lights are clued in the appropriate order."
2597	07/05/1981	Authorisation	Meringue	144	2	"9 answers are titles of literary works, with the lights the authors (of the same length)."
2598	14/05/1981	Misprints Some Reflections	Ascot	143	2	"Of the answers, one-third are entered misprinted (giving numerous alternative correct solutions), one-third in reverse and one-third normally."
2599	21/05/1981	BBC?	Mass	144	4	"Theme-words BELL (ALEXANDER, GRAHAM); BOOK (BIBLE, KORAN); CANDLE (CONTAINER, SENILITY reversed). 15 clues are MP, spelling EXCOMMUNICATION."
2600	28/05/1981	Out of This World	Duck	144	4	"Across clues are LL, spelling TODAY'S ASCENSION DAY; down lights are entered in reverse."
2601	04/06/1981	Before and After	Virgilius	144	2	"8 unclued lights form phrases when preceded or followed by their grid numbers: 7 SEAS, 9 LIVES, 39 STEPS, 40 WINKS; NUMBER 1, FIRST 11, SWEET 16, CATCH 22."
2602	18/06/1981	Look Before You Leap	Generalissimo	143	2	"Across clues are LL, spelling 'TURN UP THE LIGHTS'; down lights are entered in reverse."
2603	25/06/1981	Unholy Trinity	Ploutos	144	4	"Each subsidiary indication leads to a word obtained from the light by replacing one letter with three, e.g. DELIBERATE from DELICATE."
2604	02/07/1981	Double Misprints	Merlin	144	2	"Grid is blank, and is to contain two words in each row and column, one being a misprint. Clues are double: half are normal, while in the other half one of the two is DLM. All clues to normal lights have misprinted definitions."
2605	09/07/1981	Two Pay Three	Salamanca	150	2	"There are thirty 5-letter and fifteen 6-letter lights (including one of the latter under the main grid). Clues are arranged in triples, consisting of two normal clues to 5-letter lights, and a definition of a 6-letter light together with a mixture of the 16 letters; positions of 6-letter lights are to be determined."
2606	30/07/1981	A Matter of Detection	Adam	216	4	"The 18 across and 18 down lights are formed from the answers by omitting one letter and adding another, spelling 'THE MAN IN THE PASSAGE', 'THE PURLOINED LETTER' and 'SOLVED BY INSPECTION', all stories from 'Tales of Detection' (Everyman no. 928), edited by DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS."
2607	06/08/1981	Killer Cure	Dimitry	153	2	"Each clue is misprinted: correct letters exhaust PENICILLIN four times, while misprints spell CORYNEBACTERIUM, STAPHYLOCOCCUS, CLOSTRIDIUM. The central 5 x 5 square of the grid (whose central letter is isolated) reads ALEXANDER FLEMING CENTENARY."
2608	13/08/1981	Old Masters	Smokey	144	2	"All across and 15 down clues are LL, spelling SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK - THE LADY VANISHES; other down answers lose girls' names on entry."
2609	20/08/1981	Occidental	Bart	196	1	13 unclued lights are Hebridean islands with their initial letters approximately correctly placed in the grid.
2610	27/08/1981	Happy Birthday Books	Apex	81	4	"Clues are LL, spelling SUMMONED BY BELLS (across) and SIR JOHN BETJEMAN (down); clues are in pairs separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell COLLECTED POEMS."
2611	03/09/1981	Dab	Jago	144	2	All lights omit at least one O; SW-NE diagonal spells SLIPPED DISCS (title is 'bad back').
2612	10/09/1981	Milestone Miscellany	Zander	196	2	"Zander's 100th puzzle, with 5 clue types: Sixes and Sevens, Cook's Tour (containing a letter-mixture of an item of food or drink), Head-Hunting, Justyn Print and Missing Links."
2613	17/09/1981	For W.J.Q.	Sabre	180	1	"Answers are entered with second and subsequent occurrences of letters ignored, e.g. APPARITION leads to APRITON; subsidiary indications are to the forms entered. Numbered squares are transferred to a separate 6 x 6 square, spelling 'A SPECIES OF LIGHT WHICH WE MAY TERM OBSCURE'."
2614	24/09/1981	X Marks the Spot	Xmas	169	1	"Grid is blank with central X entered; lights are entered along four paths, with initial letters spelling ROGET'S THESAURUS (for successful path ending at centre), PANDORA'S BOX, ARTIFICIAL PASTE JEWELLERY and IRON PYRITES."
2615	01/10/1981	Just Do As You're Told	Klick	169	1	"Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Disc one grasps at in writing' leads to PATEN, SINGLETON (= one), giving PATENT."
2616	08/10/1981	The Decipherment of Linear C - Alternative Interpretation	Foxglove	169	2	"All 7-letter lights (including the unclued MICHAEL, VENTRIS and LINEAR B) are entered jumbled in the same fashion as LINEAR C is a jumble of EN CLAIR."
2617	15/10/1981	Jigsaw II	Babs	144	1	"The grid is given in 5 pieces complete with bars, to be assembled (and no bars occur at the joins)."
2618	22/10/1981	Crossbird III	Eli	170	1	"Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions."
2619	29/10/1981	Flying Sorcery	Gromwell	144	2	"6 lights (DOMDANIEL, VAMPIRES, EMPUSA, GALDRAGON, LILITH and HECATE) are clued without definition; 5 unclued lights form 'SECRET, BLACK AND MIDNIGHT HAGS'."
2620	05/11/1981	Fireworks	ffancy	144	2	Half of the answers lose GO on entry (as fireworks 'go off' on Bonfire Night).
2621	12/11/1981	Editorial Connections	D.G. Tallis	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling READ HOWARDS END BY EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER (marking end of Anthony Howard's editorship of The Listener); unclued lights are names of principal characters in the book."
2622	19/11/1981	Nesting Birds VII	Peto	150	4R	"There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel."
2623	26/11/1981	Joe to Hie and Make Her His	Eel	144	2	8 across answers are changed on entry by replacing one vowel and one consonant with the next in the alphabet; 8 down answers are changed in the opposite direction. All such lights are also defined broadly in the clues.
2624	03/12/1981	"Very Good, Sir, Very Good, Sir"	Macbu	144	2	Diagonals read PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE; perimeter contains butlers in his stories.
2625	10/12/1981	The Fish are Rising	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each down answer contains a fish, to be reversed on entry; in each case the subsidiary indication refers to the remainder of the light."	
2626	17/12/1981	Christmas Fir Play	Salamanca	259	2	"Grid is tree-shaped; thirty-two 9-letter lights are entered in and around balls, clued in random order, with balls spelling 'WHEN CHILDREN GATHER ROUND THEIR TREE'. 11 PD and 11 DLM clues give positioning lights; 8 other lights are Playfair-coded."	Roast duckling
2627	31/12/1981	Split Personality	Duck	196	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous word, whose initial letters spell CONGRATULATIONS TO TIMES CROSSWORD CHAMPION TONY SEVER. Theme-word is CROSSWORD, with 8 variations on each half: types of CROSS and words which can follow WORD."	
2628	07/01/1982	Theme and Variations - X	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words TYMPANUM (TRIANGLE, CYMBALS); AMPULLA (CRUET, FLASK); VESTIBULE (VLEI, TUBES); LABYRINTH (MINOTAUR, THESEUS) - all 'contributors to the Listener'."	
2629	14/01/1982	In Need of Treatment	Apex	144	2	"Clues to symmetrically opposite lights are paired, separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD. One down clue in each pair is MP; the 'heart' (the central letter) of each across light is transplanted into its symmetric counterpart."	
2630	21/01/1982	Fourteen BC	Egma	144	2	14 unclued lights are Old Testament characters.	
2631	28/01/1982	The Golden Fleece	Ploutos	144	1	"10 unclued lights form 5 pairs of variations on the months after JUNE (i.e., JASON): QUINTILIS, HEGMONATH; VENERABLE, SUBLIME; FENCE, ASH; MISTY-BRIGHT, LONESOME; NERVE, MOB."	
2632	04/02/1982	Morphallaxis II	Novamor	121	2	"Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers."	
2633	11/02/1982	Scout Games	Klick	169	2	"18 answers are misprinted to become authors (title is from SCOTT, JAMES)."	
2634	18/02/1982	About Noon	Flea	169	2	All occurrences of AB and ON are removed on entry.	
2635	25/02/1982	All Clued Up	Goujeers	144	2	Down lights are entered in reverse.	
2636	04/03/1982	Pangram	Mime	144	2	"6 clued codewords exhaust the alphabet; placed underneath it in an order to be determined they form a cipher, used for the four 12-letter lights."	Cwm quiz fjords glyph vext bank
2637	11/03/1982	A Driver's Nightmare?	Ascot	144	2	All occurrences of T are removed on entry.	
2638	18/03/1982	Eightsome Reels	Sol	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares."	
2639	25/03/1982	Not All There	Bart	144	4	"Every third letter is missing from the lights: equally many lights are missing the 1st, 4th etc., the 2nd, 5th etc. and the 3rd, 6th etc."	
2640	01/04/1982	Rubrics	Politicaster	202	1	Unclued lights are capital cities of the republics of the USSR; MOSCOW is entered outside the grid.	
2641	08/04/1982	Word-splitting	Duck	144	1	"Apart from 1 Across, the grid is two identical halves, and each answer is split into two halves, entered in either order."	
2642	15/04/1982	Ice Cream Parlor	Sabre	144	2	"12 answers are jumbled on entry so that when paired and one of the pair surrounds the other they form 6 'new 'n excitin' flavors': PEANUT RIPPLE, ALMOND 'N' TABASCO, FUDGE 'N' SPINACH, ROCKY ROAD, APPLE SHERBET and PECAN SWIRL."	
2643	22/04/1982	Hour-glass XI	Zander	126	1	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND UPON THE HOURS AND TIMES OF YOUR DESIRE? I HAVE NO PRECIOUS TIME AT ALL TO SPEND NOR SERVICES TO DO TILL YOU REQUIRE'."	
2644	29/04/1982	Double Entendre	Gos	144	2	"12 lights use spellings given, but not cross-referenced, in Chambers' 1977; these are correctly positioned, but the locations of others must be determined."	
2645	06/05/1982	Three in One III	Babs	144	1	Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.	
2646	13/05/1982	Starlit	Mass	204	12R	Grid is circular; radial lights are 6-letter and jumbled on entry. The two outer circles contain 'THE SKIES ARE PAINTED WITH UNNUMBER'D SPARKS' - SHAKESPEARE and 'THERE ARE FLASHES STRUCK FROM MIDNIGHTS' - ROBERT BROWNING.	
2647	20/05/1982	Hex II	Jago	133	2	"Grid comprises hexagons; clues are DLM, with lights 6-letter, entered around numbered hexagons. Perimeter contains CANTRIP, ABRACADABRA, CHARM, EVIL EYE, GLAMOUR, ENCHANTMENT."	
2648	27/05/1982	Metapuzzle	Virgilius	81	4	"Clues given lead to words forming meta-clues, whose answers are the lights."	
2649	03/06/1982	Miscast	Adam	144	4	"Clues are MP, spelling VARRIUS, PETER, THOMAS, FROTH, ESCALUS, ANGELO (characters from 'Measure for Measure'); lights are all misprinted, with correct letters spelling SHALLOW, ROBIN, PISTOL, RUGBY, SLENDER, FENTON (characters from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor')."	
2650	10/06/1982	Miss Playfair's Connections	Apex	144	2	"4 lights are Playfair-coded, each being an anagram of a composer, with two of his works being unclued lights; other clues are MP."	The musical box
2651	17/06/1982	Double Magic Square Bedecked I	Leon	50	4R	"Card puzzle: two 2s are removed from the pack, and the remaining cards form two 5 x 5 magic squares. Suits are clued numerically in base 5 (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4); each rank is replaced by a letter and DLM clues are given to anagrams of lights across, down and diagonally."	
2652	24/06/1982	(Not Quite) My Own Invention	Aelfre	144	2	"Grid is blank; theme is 'Alice through the Looking-Glass' chapter 8, with several thematic lights, mirrorwise entry and down lights entered in reverse."	
2653	01/07/1982	Mora	Novamor	144	2	Half the clues in each direction are MP; remaining lights are anagrams of the answers.	
2654	08/07/1982	Noms de guerre	Corylus	169	2	Unclued lights are characters in novels by Evelyn Waugh.	
2655	15/07/1982	Who?	Jago	169	2	"6 lights have SAINTSWITHIN, i.e., the name of a saint entered inside his or her symbol: BAR-ANTONIA-REL, LA-FRANCIS-MP, SP-QUENTIN-IT, ANC-CLEMENT-HOR, BOAT-JUDE-HOOK, HAM-ADRIAN-MER."	
2656	22/07/1982	Cook's Tour XIV	Zander	169	2	15 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items of food or drink.	
2657	29/07/1982	Schizogrammata III	ffancy	108	2	"There are three identical grids. The alphabet is divided into three categories (letters whose lines are straight, straight and curved, and curved) and each light is split between the three grids accordingly. Clues are MP, normal or DLM according as the light begins in the first, second or third grid."
2658	05/08/1982	Provincials	Egma	144	2	"Diagonals spell ELIEN, EBOR, CESTR, EXON, WINTON."
2659	12/08/1982	Jumble Sale	Sol	144	2	Odd-numbered answers are jumbled on entry so that no letter remains in its original position.
2660	19/08/1982	Ben	Casein	196	2	"12 lettered clues lack definitions and lead to battles, whose separate syllables, all words, are to be entered as the unclued lights."
2661	26/08/1982	Norma & Rod	Ascot	144	2	"Title means 'no R, M a(cross) and R, O d(own)', so lights are entered without these letters."
2662	02/09/1982	Figure it out / 2	Alban	144	1	"Half the answers in each direction contain names of numbers, which are to be divided by 2 (v. title) before entry, e.g. SLEIGHT OF HAND leads to SLFOUR OF HAND; subsidiary indications refer to the lights."
2663	09/09/1982	Ladders	Araucaria	144	2	"Each 8-letter light is clued by a series of definitions of 4-letter rungs in a word-ladder linking the first half with the second; not all these lights are words. Twelve 6-letter lights are European capital cities, and are clued without definitions."
2664	16/09/1982	I-SPY	Mass	204	12R	"Grid is circular; half the radial lights are jumbled, the rest have MP clues. The fourth circle reads '... WITH MY LITTLE EYE SOMETHING...' and the misprinted letters spell '... BEGINNING WITH ALL BUT Q AND Y' (each of the other letters of the alphabet occurs twice in the outer circle, at opposite ends of a diameter); the second circle contains eight thematic 6-letter lights."
2665	23/09/1982	Heart Transplants	Duck and Hen	144	4	The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.
2666	30/09/1982	Means Test	Klick	169	2	"Main diagonal contains NAME OF THE GAME; asterisked clues lead to the meanings of Christian names, which are the lights, e.g. DOG leads to CALEB, PEARL leads to RITA."
2667	07/10/1982	Good Hunting	Dimitry	196	2	"Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; unclued lights (before changes) are GAUDE, SABAOTH, JOHN, HERICHO, JUBILEE, DIMITY, BATTY THOMAS and TAILOR PAUL - the bells in THE NINE TAILORS by DOROTHY L. SAYERS (the diagonals)."
2668	14/10/1982	Novel Code	Adam	156	1	"13 characters from Dickens, clued by descriptions, lose initial and final letters (all different, providing a code) on entry, usually in jumbled form, around the perimeter. 3 clues and their lights (Dickens novels) are encoded."
2669	21/10/1982	Three in One IV	Babs	182	1	Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2670	28/10/1982	Round the Board	Salamanca	80	20R	"Grid is a dartboard; each of twenty 7-letter radial answers contains 4 different letters, one being repeated once and another twice, and is thus entered as a treble, a double and two singles in appropriate areas. Perimeter spells '... POINTS IN MY TARGET THUS'."
2671	04/11/1982	Bridg	Al & Im [Sal & Sim]	144	4	"There are 52 grid numbers; each answer loses each occurrence of one of E, N, S, W. Grid numbers are associated with cards (in the order AS, ..., KS, AH, ..., KH, AD, ..., KD, AC, ..., KC) and hence the cards are allocated to the players. The bidding and lead are given; the next card played is required."
2672	11/11/1982	Accidental Notes	Convar	169	4	"One letter from each answer is altered by the addition of a sharp or flat, e.g. IRISES leads to IRI#RES; correct letters spell 'PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE PIANIST. HE IS DOING HIS BEST'."
2673	18/11/1982	Sixes and Sevens - XII	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.	
2674	25/11/1982	A Centennial Word Puzzle	Alban	144	2	"Diagonals spell LEWIS CARROLL and MISCHMASCH (first published November 1882); 6 asterisked clues each consist of a letter repeated twice, with the light being the remainder of a word containing the sequence, e.g. FFF leads to CLI(FF-F)ACE."	
2675	02/12/1982	A selection from the _____	Phiz	144	4	"Unclued lights are STETS (anagram of TESTS, completing the title and giving the theme), MEAD, LAKER, DEXTER, LOCK, CHAPMAN, ROBINS, HITCH."	
2676	09/12/1982	Code	Sabre	144	1	"Each answer is encoded by moving each letter forwards (for across lights) or backwards (for down) in the alphabet the number of letters in the answer, e.g. POW (Ac.) leads to SRZ, PURANA (Dn.) leads to JOLUHU."	
2677	16/12/1982	Century	Duck	147	2	"Grid is enclosed in an oval; the central light is SIR JOHN BERRY HOBBS (b. 16/12/1882), whose century is made up of singles (I), twos (two Is), fours (IV) and sixes (VI), omitted from all the other answers on entry. All clues have a cricketing flavour."	
2678	23/12/1982	SAL A MANGER	Salamanca	225	1R	"Thirty 9-letter words, clued in random order, are entered in and around numbered squares, which spell 'WHAT MEANS THIS GLORY ROUND OUR FEET?' Positioning lights have DLM or PD clues, or are Playfair-coded."	Cradle song
2679	06/01/1983	Rings	Corylus	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling CHARACTERS OUT OF 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS' BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN; perimeter contains PIPPIN, MERRY, GOLLUM, SAURON, STRIDER, LEGOLAS, BOROMIR."	
2680	13/01/1983	Klukode	Klan	41	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., u  (excluding  i  and  o)  stand for the integers from 1 to 19 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them."	
2681	20/01/1983	Today's the Day	Egma	144	1	"2 unclued lights form KEN THESE OF STAGS AT EVE, an anagram of 'THE EVE OF ST. AGNES' by KEATS; 2 other unclued lights form 'LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI'."	
2682	27/01/1983	Snakes and Ladders - VIII	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."	
2683	03/02/1983	Half Seas Over	Llig	144	2	"Perimeter spells BACCHANALS, ST. CATHERINE'S WHEEL, GOD ENCOMPASSETH US, the supposed origins of the public house signs 'Bag o' Nails', 'Cat and Wheel' and 'Goat and Compasses'."	
2684	10/02/1983	Corsican Medals	Adam	144	2	Title is an anagram of A MODERN CLASSIC; each line of the title page of FOUR QUARTETS appears in the form of anagrams in the grid.	
2685	17/02/1983	A Walk in the Hills	Sabre	140	1	"Grid is blank; each row comprises a normal word and a theme-word (a Lake District summit). Clues are given in random order, and each contains a letter-mixture of a theme-word. A passage contains DLM clues to 26 words which may be traced in the grid."	
2686	24/02/1983	Necessary Additions	Eel	144	1	"Into one-quarter of the answers a coin must be inserted to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication refers, e.g. PENT leads to PEDIMENT."	
2687	03/03/1983	Man in the Street	Bart	182	2	"13 lights are 'men in the street', e.g. DO-KEITH-WNING, clued by anagrams in random order, such that the initial letters of men and streets exhaust the alphabet."	
2688	10/03/1983	Logogriph	Politicaster	143	1	"Grid is blank with co-ordinates; lights are entered letter by letter. A spiral reads 'WHERE EVERY WORD IS AT HOME TAKING ITS PLACE TO SUPPORT THE OTHERS; THE WORD NEITHER DIFFIDENT NOR OSTENTATIOUS, AN EASY COMMERCE OF THE OLD AND THE NEW' - LITTLE GIDDING, T.S. ELIOT."	
2689	17/03/1983	St Patrick's Day	D.G. Tallis	143	2	8 across answers lose snakes on entry; the 4 unclued down lights are alternative names for the shamrock.	
2690	07/04/1983	Bank Poster	Buff	144	2	"Unclued lights are the letters of the title in the ICAO phonetic alphabet: BRAVO, ALPHA, NOVEMBER, KILO, PAPA, OSCAR, SIERRA, TANGO, ECHO, ROMEO."	
2691	21/04/1983	"Et tu, Cassi!"	Egma	150	10R	"Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'WHAT SAYS MY GENERAL? MESSALA, THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY' and third circle 'AND SAINT GEORGE TO BOOT'; fourth circle contains 6 Shakespearean characters and fifth SALUTATION."	
2692	28/04/1983	Infra Dig	Dimitry	85	14R	Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights. Outermost circle contains DECUS ET TUTAMEN; another contains SOVEREIGN and LIBRA; innermost circle continues into the middle with AS BRIGHT AS A NEW ·.	
2693	05/05/1983	Dissection	Duck	144	2	"11 answers lose a body part on entry; 4 italicised clues lack definitions and lead to other parts of the body, entered Playfair-coded."	Body-snatcher
2694	12/05/1983	Maze II	Ram	144	2	Grid is numbered and barred; lights may not cross bars but may turn in any direction. Each square is used exactly twice.	
2695	19/05/1983	Place Setting	Aelfre	140	4R	"In each row and column a double clue leads to two answers, to be interwoven on entry, e.g. KHODJA, EASSIL lead to KEHAOSDSJIAL."	
2696	26/05/1983	Three Figures in Finest Pottery	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling RBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBYGBBPB (the sequence of snooker pots giving a maximum 147 break)."	
2697	02/06/1983	Four Out Of Five - No end of a Crossword!	Klick	169	2	"Theme-words OMAHA (PONCA, OSAGE); UTAH (DESERET, MORMON); GOLD (SPINK, CREST); JUNO (ROMAN, GROT) - all codenames for 1944 Normandy beaches (the fifth is (CROS)SWORD). Unclued lights form TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR."	
2698	09/06/1983	Impartiality	Phi	144	4	"On Election Day, all occurrences of C, CON, L, LAB are omitted, e.g. ELECTRON-VOLTS leads to EETRONVOTS."	
2699	16/06/1983	__________ [The Listener Crossword]	Ascot	100	2	Only even letters of across answers and odd letters of down answers are entered; unchecked letters in order spell the title THE LISTENER CROSSWORD.	
2700	23/06/1983	Theme and Variations XI	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words CHARLES (CHAPLIN, BOYER); NEWTON (MODERN, FASHION); MARIOTTE (OAT, REMIT); GRIMM (DYER, STERNE)."	
2701	30/06/1983	YFSXOSETWKICQO [Thursday's Child]	Mass	144	2	Down clues are MP; across answers are entered misprinted. Certain diagonals spell 'THE LISTENERS' BY WALTER DE LA MARE; 4 italicised clues have Playfair-coded lights.	Soundwave
2702	07/07/1983	Milkman's Dicky	Eel	144	2	Half the lights are terms in rhyming slang.	
2703	14/07/1983	?	Mog	144	2	"10 answers lose WHO on entry; unclued lights are HARTNELL, TROUGHTON, PERTWEE, BAKER, DAVISON."	
2704	21/07/1983	Typecast	Adam	144	2	"Unclued lights are synonyms of the words of the NURSERY RHYME 'Tinker, tailor, ...' - not linked with GEORGE SMILEY and LE CARR?."	
2705	28/07/1983	Doubtful Starters	Novamor	144	2	"Each across clue defines one word and indicates another subsidiarily, the two differing only in their initial letters; each letter of the alphabet appears as the initial letter of an across light exactly once."
2706	04/08/1983	What for	Salamanca	144	2	"12 clues leads to types of people, with the lights being the types of hawk proper to them, e.g. YEOMAN leads to GOSHAWK."
2707	11/08/1983	Twenty-five years on	Corylus	169	1	"11 lights are SPACEPROBES, entered upwards and clued by the dates of their launch; the first, PIONEER, was launched on 11/08/1958."
2708	18/08/1983	The Missing Hawk	Babs	144	1	"Each light is entered in two parts, one where indicated and one elsewhere; most unlocated parts are used more than once, and one beginning (TOMA-) also serves the title."
2709	25/08/1983	Four Shuffles	Swan	144	2	"Down answers are entered shuffled, with those of the same length shuffled in the same way."
2710	01/09/1983	The Name of the Game	Klick	169	2	"Unclued lights are related to the children's game with CHERRY STONES: SNOUT (tinker), STARVELING (tailor), WELLINGTON (soldier), NELSON (sailor), DIVES (rich man), LAZARUS (poor man), CAREW (beggarman), GESTAS (thief)."
2711	08/09/1983	Definitive Pairs	Flea	169	2	"In each clue the subsidiary indication is to its own light, but the definition refers to another, whose grid number is congruent to its own modulo 10."
2712	15/09/1983	Anagram Pie	Derek	144	4	All lights except 7 are anagrams of the answers.
2713	22/09/1983	3-D	Alban	125	2	"Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; half the lights in each direction are misprinted, with the remaining clues MP. To complete the cube, its 3 x 3 x 3 centre spells HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS."
2714	29/09/1983	Jig-Word III	Eel	144	2	"The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters C C H H I I N N N O O O O, is on its side). Clues are given in random order."
2715	06/10/1983	Implex	Salamanca	144	2	12 lights are clued by their definitions in AMBROSE BIERCE'S 'DEVIL'S DICTIONARY' (given by initial letters of other clues).
2716	13/10/1983	Hydra	Duck	196	2	"Unclued lights are placenames in novels by HARDY, entered with the letters other than the first in reverse order, e.g. CEGDIRBRETSA."
2717	20/10/1983	Amazing	Romp	144	1	"Grid is a maze, with lights running sideways and down (but not up) and finishing at dead-ends; main diagonal is HAMPTON COURT."
2718	27/10/1983	B-M	Hand in Glove	200	1	"There are two identical grids, with double clues for each location; unclued lights are previous winners of the Booker-McConnell prize."
2719	03/11/1983	A Timely Reminder	Smokey	169	2	"Each subsidiary indication leads to the light with an extra letter; these spell 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER'. Theme-words GUNPOWDER (CHARCOAL, SULPHUR, SALTPETRE); TREASON (ATONERS, SENATOR); PLOT (PATCH, STEEP)."
2720	10/11/1983	Ploughed and Scattered	Egma	196	2	14 answers lose BA or BSC on entry (with letters not necessarily consecutive).
2721	08/12/1983	Advent Calendar	Phi	144	2	"12 clues are LL, spelling ISAIAH XL V. III; the other 24 clues each lead to lights containing extra letters, spelling 'PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD' - the positions of these lights are to be determined."
2722	15/12/1983	______________ [The Diary of a Nobody]	Ascot	222	2	"The first 17 down clues are LL, spelling 'THE DIARY OF A NOBODY'; the remainder have misprinted lights, with misprints spelling GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMITH. Across clues contain superfluous words, forming 'I AM A POOR MAN, BUT I WOULD GLADLY GIVE TEN SHILLINGS TO FIND OUT WHO SENT ME THE INSULTING CHRISTMAS CARD I RECEIVED THIS MORNING'."
2723	22/12/1983	"The ____ Christmas Message of _______ [1939, King George VI]"	Apex	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling 'BETTER THAN LIGHT AND SAFER THAN A KNOWN WAY', by MINNIE HASKINS (unclued), quoted by KING GEORGE SIXTH (unclued) in NINETEEN THIRTY-NINE (formed by shaded squares)."
2724	22/12/1983	Smokey's Christmas Party	Smokey	196	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Pin the Tail on the Donkey (creatures with last letters misplaced), Pass the Parcel (entered without initial and final letters), Hunt the Slipper (12 lights have an extra letter, spelling SLEDGE-RUNNER) and Nuts and Crackers (anagrams)."
2725	05/01/1984	Veq Bemb	Sabre	225	2	All lights are encoded using a substitution cipher; unclued lights are then characters from ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL (which appear as the encoded form of four lights). Title is encoded form of KEY TEXT.
2726	12/01/1984	Watersingers	Alexis	156	1	"Theme-words WORDSWORTH (GRASMERE, ANNETTE, LUCY); COLERIDGE (HIGHGATE, MARINER, OPIUM); SOUTHEY (GRETA, ESPRIELLA, NELSON)."
2727	19/01/1984	Phox's Almanac for 1984	Phox	143	1	"12 clues are months; their lights are the saints whose days are in the months concerned, with the dates being the grid numbers."
2728	26/01/1984	Head-Hunting - XIII	Zander	144	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'TO TRAMPLE ROUND MY FALLEN HEAD'.
2729	02/02/1984	Off with their heads!	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented initially by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."
2730	09/02/1984	Threes Away	Babs	144	1	"Each answer loses three identical letters on entry, e.g. TUATARA leads to TUTR."
2731	16/02/1984	Cross-reference	Essem	144	2	"Each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to another of the same length."
2732	23/02/1984	Letter for a friend	Adam	144	1	"In 14 cases an answer contains the name of a Listener setter, to be replaced on entry by a letter, e.g. PETROLOGY leads to PETROAY; these letters spell SIR EDWARD ELGAR."
2733	01/03/1984	Klukode II	Klan	89	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z  (excluding  o)  stand for the integers from 1 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them."
2734	08/03/1984	Pick of the Month	Apex	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling 'THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS': POEMS SELECTED BY DERWENT MAY (1 Down)."
2735	15/03/1984	Missing Masterpieces	Egma	196	2	11 answers lose MA or MSC on entry (with letters not necessarily consecutive).
2736	22/03/1984	Red Grouse	Alexis	156	1	"Theme-words CANCER (LIBRA, ARIES); WARD (DAVID, GRIEVE); FIRST (RATE, BEGOTTEN); CIRCLE (CAUCASIAN, CHALK)."
2737	29/03/1984	Two across [Poisson d'Avril]	Jago	150	2	"Clues are DLM, but 10 answers are synonyms of the lights, which are of the same length and are all fish."	
2738	05/04/1984	Clip on tee peg II	Zander	144	2	"All lights are misprinted once, but are still words."	
2739	12/04/1984	Force of numbers	Klick	169	1	"Unclued lights are nicknames of American army divisions, whose numbers are their grid numbers."	
2740	19/04/1984	Eddic	Novamor	154	2	Unclued lights are names of colleagues in Chambers and editors of the Dictionary.	
2741	26/04/1984	Play for Today	Corylus	144	2	6 asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights.	April 26th 1984
2742	03/05/1984	Dicky birds	Alban	144	2	"Some of the across answers are entered in rhyming slang, e.g. SKINT leads to BORACIC."	
2743	10/05/1984	Inside out III	Duck	144	4	"Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear."	
2744	17/05/1984	Autoplayfair	Adam	144	2	Three of the 6-letter lights in the right half of the grid are the Playfair-coded forms of three in the left half; the unclued 1 down has its encoded form in the right.	Intercom
2745	24/05/1984	Main Connexions	Essem	144	2	"Theme-words AGUE (FEVER, MALARIA); FOLIO (OCTAVO, QUARTO); MANTEAU (ROQUELAURE, PELERINE); CULLIS (BROTH, GUTTER) - all can be preceded by PORT-."	
2746	31/05/1984	Heroscope	Mass	204	12R	"Grid is circular with 12 sectors, each having a triple clue with lights entered letter by letter. Two circles contain heroic nouns and adjectives; a third, HEREWARD THE WAKE, ROBIN HOOD; others, 'HAIL, YE HEROES', 'DOUGHTY DEEDS MY LADY PLEASE', 'WE'LL WEAR OUT, IN A WALL'D PRISON, PACKS AND SECTS OF GREAT ONES'."	
2747	07/06/1984	Contrai	Sabre	144	2	"Half the answers are contracted by omitting repeated letters, with subsidiary indications referring to the lights."	
2748	14/06/1984	One over the eight	Hen	196	2	"9-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to an alcoholic drink, e.g. 'Fair plonk, Cathie' leads to KNIPHOFIA (+ CLARET); a one-word definition of each such across light has been added to the clue immediately before or after it."	
2749	21/06/1984	Miss Alphacode	Amicus	144	1	"A sequence, treated as cyclic, is formed by placing the codeword in front of the rest of the alphabet in order; answers are encoded by moving the nth letter of the word forward  n  places in the sequence."	Stylographic
2750	28/06/1984	"Ring out, Wild Bells!"	Dimitry	144	2	"Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; unclued lights are WILD(E) BELL(E)S, i.e. female characters from works of OSCAR WILDE (unchecked letters at top of first column and bottom of last), entered with an E missing."	
2751	05/07/1984	Justyn Print - VII	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Bankrupt' leads to OWEN LOTS."	
2752	12/07/1984	The red house	Jago	144	2	"Clues are DLM, with ARAMIS, ATHOS and PORTHOS unclued; in each of the nine 4 x 4 squares the central 2 x 2 square is occupied by a single large letter, spelling ONE FOR ALL."	
2753	19/07/1984	Kensington Oval	Mime	128	1R	"Grid represents the Royal Albert Hall, with the Promenade area unshaded; lights or parts thereof falling in the Promenade area are jumbled. The central part of the grid contains a list of composers and artists from the current Proms season; the perimeter contains 4 movements from Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'."	
2754	26/07/1984	Encore	Jude	169	6R	"Grid is hexagonal with 7-letter lights entered in and around numbered hexagons (spelling 'YOU ARE MY HONEY, HONEYSUCKLE, I AM THE BEE' - A.H.F.). Each clue is lacking the central letter of a word of either the definition or the subsidiary indication. A codesquare is formed comprising six 4-letter words with one of the other two letters of the alphabet in the centre (B being the other); the six corner lights are entered encoded by replacing each letter by its symmetrical opposite in the codesquare."	Derv Fogs Jynx Lump With Zack
2755	02/08/1984	Significant figures	Corylus	196	2	"Answers are entered numerically, e.g. MASH leads to 131198; diagonals consist entirely of 1s, being the significant figures of ONE NINTH (unclued)."	
2756	09/08/1984	7 x 6	Alban	225	2	"7 groups of 6 clues are given, the lights in each group being of the same length and in the same direction; other clues are numbered normally. Diagonals contain 'THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY', with DOUGLAS ADAMS and DON'T PANIC unclued."	
2757	16/08/1984	... but not hung	Phi	144	4	"Different rules of entry apply in each quarter of the grid: normal, reversed, with vowels removed and with consonants."	
2758	23/08/1984	Eightsome Reels	Essem	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares."	
2759	30/08/1984	Mixprints	Mass	144	2	"Half the clues are MP; the remaining lights are misprinted. Each answer loses a letter each time it occurs, spelling TO DERRICK SOMERSET MACNUTT, ALIAS XIMENES."	
2760	06/09/1984	Diminishing returns	ffancy	121	2	"All answers lose a letter on entry; these form six unclued lights each of which has also lost a letter: (S)AMURAI, VIRTU(E)S, S(T)ARS, H(I)LLS, DIAL(S), SEA(S); these lost letters form the seventh unclued light SISTE(R)S, whose lost letter is entered in the central isolated square. All unclued lights may be preceded by SEVEN."	
2761	13/09/1984	Place your bets	Hen	174	1	"Grid represents a steeplechase course with 8 horses, who mostly change lane after each fence and drop out one by one; across lights follow their paths."	
2762	20/09/1984	Take three or four	Adam	50	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples of numbers such that the sum of any three, or of all four, is a perfect square, together with the five square roots."	
2763	27/09/1984	Plus ?a change	Midas	169	2	"Some answers are lengthened or shortened by adding or subtracting letters to form the light, which is a synonym, e.g. LIT leads to ILLUMINATED."	
2764	04/10/1984	Missing Links XIV	Zander	144	2	16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.	
2765	11/10/1984	Segregation	Duck	144	2	Across clues with lights beginning with a vowel are segregated from those with lights beginning with a consonant; order within each group is random. Letters of down lights are segregated into vowels and consonants with either group coming first.	
2766	18/10/1984	'______ ______' [Atomic Matter]	Salamanca	160	2R	"Grid comprises 38 circles each surrounded by 6 triangles; lights are 7- or 8-letter, with initial and/or final letters entered in circles (forming symbols for chemical elements with appropriate atomic numbers) and remainder (given by subsidiary indications) in surrounding triangles. Shaded corner triangles spell ATOMIC MATTER."	
2767	25/10/1984	Bird talk	Phalarope	144	2	"9 lettered clues contain jumbled birds' names, suggesting 9 methods of entry of answers: TERN (reverse), ROBIN (insert ROB), DUCK (do nothing), KNOT (anagram), TURNSTONE (reverse ST), WAGTAIL (reverse last two letters), CROSSBILL (reverse first two letters), EAGLE (omit two letters) and HERON (add HER initially)."	
2768	01/11/1984	Bridge problem	Virgilius	220	4R	"13 unchecked letters on each edge of the grid represent the hands of a bridge deal (where A = Ace, B = King, ..., M = 2), with suits in normal SHDC order; the best contract North and South can make is needed."	
2769	08/11/1984	Get the message	Bufo	168	4	"In 20 asterisked clues, half have lights entered normally and half in reverse; other lights are jumbled. Perimeter consists of unchecked letters and spells THE OTHER FOUR LINES OF UNCHECKED LETTERS ALL SPELL WORDS (enabling their completion)."
2770	15/11/1984	Small Change III	Klick	169	2	Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.
2771	22/11/1984	Decal II	Hotspur	136	2R	Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.
2772	29/11/1984	Chips with everything	Dougal	144	2	"Clues are grouped together in fours and run together in paragraphs; each clue contains letter-mixtures of the light and of a one-word definition. Reading from top right corner to centre to top left spells HEIRS 'N' GRACES; unclued lights are Graces (U.K. Dukes), and each paragraph contains a letter-mixture of a corresponding Heir."
2773	06/12/1984	Double wedge patience	Leon	52	2	"Card puzzle; the pack is dealt into two wedges, in whose rows and columns products of ranks are given and products of suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued. The object is to remove pairs of the same colour, one from each wedge, totalling 13 (Kings being removed singly)."
2774	13/12/1984	Edict	Eel	225	2	"Top, central and bottom rows (unclued) spell DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON - DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (he died 13/12/1784). All lights are misprinted; correct letters spell 'TO MAKE DICTIONARIES IS DULL WORK' (Across) and 'WORDS ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF EARTH' (Down)."
2775	20/12/1984	Smokey's Christmas Party II	Smokey	196	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Fairy Whispers (definition and answer are misprinted but light is still a word); Forfeits (LL, spelling POSTMAN'S KNOCK); Turkey Sandwiches (subsidiary indication ignores TR); Mince Pies (light is anagram of answer)."
2776	20/12/1984	A double harness	Leiruza	144	2R	Lights are entered along two knight's tours; some diagonals are given as OUR HEARTIEST GREETINGS TO ALL.
2777	03/01/1985	15 Down [Thor]	Ploutos	144	2	"6 unclued across lights are past editors of The Times (= The Thunderer = THOR), celebrating its 200th anniversary; Unclued down lights contain two Cs and are still words if they are removed: ACCURATE, BACCY, CALCINE, CRESCENT and SCONCE."
2778	10/01/1985	Crosslights	Dimitry	169	4	"Grid is blank; clues are paired, each leading to two intersecting lights, with the subsidiary indication to one omitting the letter of intersection. Two central 13-letter lights, LEVEL CROSSING and EAVESDROPPING, establish the orientation of the grid."
2779	17/01/1985	Clerimuse	Babs	210	1	Narrative involving various clerihews.
2780	24/01/1985	What's my line?	Hellebore	144	2	Across clues are given in random order except that those with lights in the same row are paired together.
2781	31/01/1985	St Paul's	Mass	223	1R	"Grid represents St. Paul's Cathedral (dome and body); clues to the body are MP, with unclued lights all linked with the Cathedral; clues to the dome lead to 5-letter jumbled radial lights, with subsidiary indications leading to the jumbled forms. Circling the dome reads SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN DESIGNED A CUPOLAED CATHEDRAL."
2782	07/02/1985	Gloucester	Fabrizzio	144	2	"Answers to asterisked clues are entered with two letters transposed, the two being separated by a single letter; these single letters spell 'PLUCK OUT HIS EYES'. Other answers lose Is on entry."
2783	14/02/1985	Chicken Pickin'	Mime	144	2	"Clues are mainly LL, spelling 'WHEN EV'RY FOWL COMETH TO CHOOSE HER MAKE'; other clues lead to birds, entered as anagrams, and initial letters of these clues may be rearranged to form VALENTINE (the heading in Brewer under which the quotation appears)."
2784	21/02/1985	Mythical Monster	sPHinx	169	2	"There are 5 types of light entry: Hydra's Head (with initial letter doubled); Cyclops (with all but one I removed); Medusa (with initial letter removed); Gorgon's Head (reversed); Sinis (in two halves divided by a letter from a crossing light). Four monsters (GERYON, CERBERUS, HYDRA, SCYLLA) are entered with the appropriate number of heads."
2785	28/02/1985	Leap year	Hand in Glove	144	2	Every fourth letter in each answer is replaced by its successor in the alphabet.	
2786	07/03/1985	Senario	Alban	196	2	"There are 5 clue types: normal, LL, PD, misprinted and Playfair. Each is used 6 times (including both types of misprint); perimeter reads 'IT'S JUST SIX OF ONE AND HALF A DOZEN OF THE OTHER' - CAPTAIN MARRYAT."	Pirate
2787	14/03/1985	'An otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative'	Adam	144	1	Narrative concerning The MIKADO (first production 14/03/1885); perimeter reads 'THE TASK OF FILLING UP THE BLANKS I'D RATHER LEAVE TO YOU'.	
2788	21/03/1985	Primes	Piccadilly	81	1	"Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 10 is used for one row and one column."	
2789	28/03/1985	Three Ways	Alcuin	141	1R	"Grid is hexagonal in shape, comprising equilateral triangles; lights run from left to right in one of three directions. Alternate rows contain 'THERE BE TRIPLE WAYS TO TAKE OF THE EAGLE OR THE SNAKE OR THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID'."	
2790	04/04/1985	Exams all border scamps do	Apex	165	2	"Perimeter (whose unchecked letters may be arranged to form the title) contains 10 Listener setters, each associated with an unclued light: ADAM (BEDE), APEX (CORNER), ASCOT (RACES), BART (LIONEL), DUCK (DONALD), EEL (CONGER), MASS (OBSERVATION), SABRE (DANCE), SAM (COSTA), WATERLOO (BRIDGE)."	
2791	11/04/1985	Sixes and Sevens XIII	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.	
2792	18/04/1985	"20, 11Dn, 8, 34, 25Dn / 9, 37, 11Ac [Treasure Island]"	Jago	150	2	"Unclued lights are as listed in title together with PIECES OF EIGHT: (TRE)LAWNEY, H(A)WKINS, (S)ILVER, G(U)NN, (RE)DRUTH, H(IS)PANIOLA, SMO(L)LETT, H(AND)S."	
2793	25/04/1985	Pieces of eight	Smokey	169	2	"The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. PASS-OVER; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere."	
2794	02/05/1985	Cyphersquare	Centigram	144	2	"14 asterisked clues have misprinted lights, with correct letters spelling 'A LETTER TO A LADY'. The 36 unchecked letters forming the perimeter of the central 10 x 10 square, if written in columns in a 6 x 6 square and read in rows, form 'BEHOLD THE BRIGHT ORIGINAL APPEAR' - JOHN GAY."	
2795	09/05/1985	Hem	Essem	144	2	"10 unclued lights (and title) form words when preceded by MAY-. Each clue has a misprint in the definition, spelling 'COLD MAY AND WINDY, BARN FILLETH UP FINELY'."	
2796	16/05/1985	Backtracking	Goujeers	144	2	Each answer is divided in two somewhere and the second half is entered in reverse.	
2797	23/05/1985	Dube Crossor	Mascot	162	2	"There are two identical 9 x 9 grids, with clues at the same location paired. Each letter of the alphabet is paired with its symmetric opposite (AZ, BY, CX, ..., MN); in each double clue one answer loses a letter-pair on entry, with each grid losing the entire alphabet."	
2798	30/05/1985	Playmates	Klick	169	2	14 answers are entered misprinted to form playwrights.	
2799	06/06/1985	Have Patience	Phi	144	1	"Apart from top row, grid is divided into two identical halves; down clues at the same location are paired. Across lights are all 7-letter words having lost their initial letters, which are all C, D, H or S; clues are in random order within suits, and 'red' and 'black' lights alternate down each half of the grid."	
2800	13/06/1985	Counterfoil	Eyeline [Eel]	144	2	"Lights with an even number of letters are clued normally; those with an odd number comprise two words overlapping at the central letter, and have one-word clues combining definitions of the two halves, e.g. CROSS = counter, SWORD = foil; EE = eye, EL = line."	
2801	20/06/1985	Round the Board II	Salamanca	81	20R	"Grid is a dartboard; each of twenty 7-letter radial answers contains 4 different letters, one being repeated once and another twice, and is thus entered as a treble, a double and two singles in appropriate areas. Perimeter plus bullseye spells 'SHOOT NOT BEYOND THE MARK'."	
2802	27/06/1985	Unfair Play?	Sabre	144	2	"8 answers have a pair of consecutive letters Playfair-coded, with subsidiary indications referring to the forms to be entered. 4 unclued lights are Playfair-coded: (S)WINGBOAT, (D)ODGEMS, (H)ELTERSKELTER, (C)OCKSHY - all (F)unfair plays."	Pneumogastric
2803	04/07/1985	Close of Play	Ix	144	4	"Initial letters of superfluous words in across clues spell WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; letters omitted from across answers spell 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA', while those inserted in down lights, read across the grid, spell 'THIS GREAT SOLEMNITY' (the closing phrase of the play)."	
2804	11/07/1985	Multiplication	Ploutos	144	2	Answers clash on main diagonals; multiplying the numerical values and working modulo 26 gives the way to resolve the conflicts so that all lights are words.	
2805	18/07/1985	Whodunnit	Mime	169	2	"11 lights are fictional detectives; initial and final letters of their clues complete the unclued lights JEFFERSON HOPE and ENOCH J. DREBBER, murderer and victim in 'A Study in Scarlet' (given as S-A STUDY-CARLET)."	
2806	25/07/1985	... or long the haven of ___________ [The Listener]	Dimitry	117	2	"Across clues are LL; down clues have subsidiary indications leading to the light with a superfluous letter. A substitution cipher is obtained whereby each superfluous letter is encoded by the letter omitted from the across light crossing the down light concerned on a main diagonal; the perimeter is then encoded to read SOLVER FIND HINT: THE ENTRY TO GO HERE MY MAIL, an anagram of THIRTY-FIVE MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET, LONDON  (and of the full title)."	
2807	01/08/1985	Double or Quit	Novamor	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise around numbered squares; odd-numbered answers are alternately 7-letter (entered with central letter doubled) and 9-letter (entered with central letter removed)."	
2808	08/08/1985	Lord Dunsany's Problem	Foxglove	196	2	"Top and bottom halves of the grid correspond to White and Black; clues to symmetrically oppostite lights are paired, with those for Black lights requiring the removal or insertion of B, K, N, P, Q or R. Central 8 x 8 square is a chessboard with pieces given by letters, presenting a problem due to Lord Dunsany: white to mate in two (the first move being P x P en passant)."	
2809	15/08/1985	The forty-five	Nibor	143	2	"Each clue has an extra letter, which must be inserted in the answer; these spell PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters long)."	
2810	22/08/1985	Battle Royal	Duck	165	2	"Puzzle marks 500th anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth; in asterisked clues, definitions lead to words containing ENG (= England), replaced by a horse (as given by subsidiary indication). Four clues lacking definitions lead to BALIOS, BRONTE, CARMAN, LAMPOS (historical horses), entered Playfair-coded."	Gift horse
2811	29/08/1985	Snakes and Ladders IX	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."	
2812	05/09/1985	On a plate	Mass	121	2	"Definitions in 14 clues lack a letter; these may be rearranged as DAGUERROTYPES. Other clues are normal but parts of the answers must be replaced by antonyms, e.g. PALIMPSEST leads to PASTIFFSEST."	
2813	12/09/1985	Infernal Patience	Leon	51	1	"Card puzzle: 51 cards of the pack are dealt overlappingly into the letters HELL, and clues are given in rows and columns to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4). Uncovered cards are turned face up; the object is to build uncovered cards on the 52nd card and the other three of the same rank in either ascending or descending order (with Ace following King and preceding 2), alternating colours."	
2814	19/09/1985	Abbs and Reviations	Egma	132	2	Most down and some across clues are normal; others are one-word definitions of words with abbreviations in Chambers' - the abbreviation is to be entered at the correct location and the remainder elsewhere.	
2815	26/09/1985	Hexagonal	Bart	149	1	"Grid comprises hexagons; lights run in three directions and are jumbled. Alternate lines spell 'FOR SO WORK THE HONEY-BEES, CREATURES THAT BY A RULE IN NATURE TEACH THE ACT OF ORDER TO A PEOPLED KINGDOM'."	
2816	03/10/1985	Square cut	Swan	144	2	Perimeter of central 10 x 10 square contains in random order the words of 'WHICH TAKEN AT THE FLOOD LEADS ON TO FORTUNE'.	
2817	10/10/1985	To Put It Bluntly	Corylus	144	2	"Grid is blank with clues given in normal order; all lights suffer from POINTLESSNESS (1 across, entered as POITL). Some lights are unaffected, e.g. POCHARD; others disappear altogether, e.g. NEWNESS."	
2818	17/10/1985	Culture Club	Job	144	1	"27 answers are entered lacking vowels; their clues contain a superfluous word or phrase, leading to a synonym made up of the removed vowels and the consonants CLTR."	
2819	24/10/1985	Play for Today	Amicus	144	4	"17 unidentified clues are LL, spelling MEASURE FOR MEASURE; in the remaining clues the word defined contains a measure, which must be replaced by another on entry, e.g. TROUNCE leads to TRPOLE."	
2820	31/10/1985	Literally Fowl	Miguel	150	2	"Some clues are DLM; 7 lack definitions and lead to pairs of birds' names, entered next to each other. 13 lights are adjusted on the basis of phrases '... for ...', e.g. SCANDALMONGER leads to THESCHOOLMONGER."	
2821	07/11/1985	Coexistence	Virgilius	121	2	"Grid is blank, to be occupied by two overlapping solutions, one using bars and the other black squares. Clues are given in the normal order for each solution but are mixed together."	
2822	14/11/1985	Six Authors Play Fair in Search of a Character	Adam	144	2	"Two 12-letter lights are Playfair-coded; 6 lights are forenames associated with the codeword by 6 authors, clued by anagrams of the authors and titles, separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell BUTLER."	Lambert
2823	21/11/1985	'________' (a Spot the Theme Quiz) [Mr. and Mrs.]	Apex	154	1	"Title is given by 8 shaded unchecked squares. Clues are DLM, paired as questions and answers (across to him, down to her). 8 unclued lights contain male and female names next to each other, e.g. S-AVA-GENE-SS."	
2824	28/11/1985	Literally speaking	Ascot	144	4	All lights are misprinted; correct letters from 24 italicised clues can be arranged to form LITERALLY SPEAKING BY ASCOT.	
2825	05/12/1985	Hour-glass XII	Zander	111	1R	"Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'AND ROUND BENEATH IT, TIME IN HOURS, DAYS, YEARS DRIV'N BY THE SPHERES LIKE A VAST SHADOW MOV'D, IN WHICH THE WORLD AND ALL HER TRAIN WERE HURL'D'."	
2826	12/12/1985	Skelekode	Klan	121	2R	"Numerical puzzle; grid is blank to be completed with black squares, with one grid number given. The letters  a, b, c, ..., z  (excluding  i  and  o)  stand for the integers from 2 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues and light-lengths are in terms of them."	
2827	19/12/1985	Carol Festival	Mass	221	2	"Clues are DLM (with lights misprinted), Playfair, MP (with correct letters spelling I BID YOU MY SOLVERS BE MERRY) or carol extracts acting as subsidiary indications to non-words. Unclued lights FLESH (BODY, SKIN); WINE (RUDESHEIMER, SHERRIS-SACK); PINELOGS (SORROW, RECORDS) - also SEASONAL GREETINGS."	
2828	19/12/1985	Smokey's Christmas Afternoon	Smokey	196	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Unwrapping the Presents (AD is omitted on entry); A Generous Amount of Port (lacking definitions with lights all ports, left unfinished); Extra Guests (either the definition or the light appears with an extra letter); Merry-making (lights are anagrams of answers)."	
2829	02/01/1986	Heart Transplants II	Duck & Hen	144	4	The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.	
2830	09/01/1986	Wallflowers	Dimitry	245	4R	"Lights are entered in and around numbered squares; those in centre are 9-letter, with subsidiary indications omitting the central letters, while those on edges and in corners are 8- and 7-letter. A knight's tour of numbered squares, beginning in the centre and ending at a corner, spells 'HERE WILL WE SIT, AND LET THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC CREEP IN OUR EARS'."	
2831	16/01/1986	Topped and Tailed IV	Klick	169	2	Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.	
2832	23/01/1986	Reinvigoration	Phi	144	2	"26 clues are MP with correct letters spelling THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE; the other ten answers receive a 'blood transfusion' on entry, whereby one of A, B, AB and O is replaced by another, e.g. CRABBED leads to CROBED."	
2833	30/01/1986	Gazetteer vol. II	Ploutos	144	2	"12 unidentified clues lead to words forming half the name of an English town, the light being the other half, e.g. DRY leads to DODDINGTON. All towns begin with D, E or F."	
2834	06/02/1986	Chainwork	Law	144	4	"Lights form a chain in which intersects the next; clues are double, with one normal and one DLM in each pair."	
2835	13/02/1986	'Answers to ...'	Aelfre	192	1	"13 italicised clues each indicate two words with something in common, containing a dog's name to be removed on entry, e.g. GLASS, POTTERY lead to GLASTERY. In 30 clues subsidiary indications lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling '... THE NAME OF 'DASH', HAD ON A BRASS COLLAR'. Entry is as if through a looking-glass."	
2836	20/02/1986	Point-to-Point	ffancy	144	1	"Initial directions of lights are given, but when a Point (N, E, S, W, NE, NW, SE, SW) is reached the light continues in that direction. 18 asterisked clues are DLM and have lights which do not change direction."	
2837	27/02/1986	Cook's Tour XV	Zander	144	2	16 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items of food or drink.	
2838	06/03/1986	one	Sabre	144	1	6 rows each contain 6 shaded squares; if these are rearranged they form 'AND FROM THE CROSSE-ROW PLUCKES THE LETTER G'; 12 across answers lose the letter G on entry.	
2839	13/03/1986	Ionic Capitals	Corylus	144	2	"Unclued lights (in order) spell a quotation in Greek and Latin by PETRONIUS (anagram of initial letters of lights with DLM clues); 15 MP clues spell ONE FIVE SEVEN SIX, the number of the page in Chambers' 1983 containing the Greek alphabet."	
2840	20/03/1986	Spoiled for Choice II	Jago	162	2	"Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square."	
2841	27/03/1986	Pythagorean	DiGiTallis	60	2	"Numerical puzzle, with clues Pythagorean triples with the third member prime (or in one case the square of a prime); unclued lights are triangular Pythagorean numbers."	
2842	03/04/1986	Jig-Word IV	Eel	144	2	"The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters A I I I I N O O O U X Z Z, is on its side). Clues are given in random order."	
2843	10/04/1986	Octacryptogram	Adam	144	2	"A cryptogram is formed by writing in two rows a codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, with each letter encoding that above or below it; the four 8-letter lights each comprise 4 corresponding pairs. The six 6-letter lights are entered encoded."	Slack
2844	17/04/1986	Out and About	Mass	144	2	"8 italicised clues are normal; in others, the definition leads to a word containing a forename, to be removed to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication refers, while a letter-mixture of the forename appears in the clue."	
2845	24/04/1986	_ _____________? [W Caxton's Devilry]	Apex	144	4	"There are 4 types of clue: Playfair, MP, PD and LL (spelling the letters following the codewords in the Playfair codesquare, with the clue giving W lacking definition to indicate that it begins the title)."	Caxton's devilry
2846	01/05/1986	Roots and Fractions	Gos	144	2	Unclued lights are the monetary units of 5 African countries and the corresponding lower denominations.	
2847	08/05/1986	Light Deduction	Essem	144	2	"Most clues are MP, spelling TAKE ANOTHER WORD FROM THE COMBINED ANSWERS; this refers to the 8 lights obtained from 8 double DLM clues (in which one answer refers to the light at the location indicated and the other refers to one elsewhere), e.g. SNOWDROP, CAPRICE lead to SNOWCAP."	
2848	15/05/1986	Double Masquerade	Duck	196	2	"Unclued lights, in pairs, provide synonyms for Cornwall and 7 towns therein: SALT, BARRIER (Cornwall); RECENT, WHARF (Newquay); CENT, PITY (Redruth); FORD, SPAN (Wadebridge); DOLICHOTIS, HEAVEN (Marazion); HAMPER, CROP (Padstow); AWRY, ENDURED (Camborne); MUSCLE, SCRAPE (Mousehole)."	
2849	22/05/1986	The Labours of Hercules - I 'The Nemean Lion'	Phi	169	2	Grid is blank; each occurrence of LION or LEO in an answer is replaced by its Zodiacal sign. One such square is surrounded by HERCULES (as he strangled the lion).
2850	29/05/1986	Linking Misses	Smokey	160	1R	"Down lights, all 8-letter, are jumbled except for their initial letters, which spell PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW; six of the other rows consist of 4 girls' names, clued by subsidiary indications run together."
2851	05/06/1986	Give and Take IV	Bart	168	2	To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Diagonals spell 'SO ALL MY BEST IS DRESSING OLD WORDS NEW'.
2852	12/06/1986	My Dear Watson	Mime	144	2	Unclued lights form 6 approximate homophones of 'Elementary': ''ELL! A MANTA RAY!'; ELLA MONTEREY; YELLOW ENTRY; HOLLOW MEN TREE; 'SELL 'EM AINTREE'; HOLLOW MENTALLY.
2853	19/06/1986	Theme and Variations - XII	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words SELHURST (HUSTLERS, RUTHLESS); ROKER (TORPEDO, SKATE); UPTON (ALOFT, FASHION); HOME (ALEC, DOUGLAS)."
2854	26/06/1986	A Four Square Problem	Adam	56	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples of numbers such that the sum of any two is a perfect square, and the six square roots."
2855	03/07/1986	A Couple of Drop-outs - II	Ascot	144	2	Each answer loses two letters to form the light.
2856	10/07/1986	Game Frame	Salamanca	159	1	"Grid represents a snooker table; lights travel in any of eight directions, with rebounds at cushions. Balls on the table spell COLOUR-BLINDNESS; six lights end with their last two letters in a pocket, spelling AMOUNT SCORED."
2857	17/07/1986	Jay Walker	Klick	169	2	"16 answers are entered misprinted to become poets (title is from GAY, WALLER)."
2858	24/07/1986	All-Inclusive	Corylus	169	2	"In several lights apostrophes, hyphens and spaces occupy squares of their own."
2859	31/07/1986	Take Your Pick - III	Ploutos	144	4	"Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram."
2860	07/08/1986	Spin	Goujeers	144	2	"All clues concern cricket and  particle physics; down clues are MP, spelling 'PITCH AND A BLINDING LIGHT'. Unclued across lights are MCCINSTMCCIN and RMCCLATIVITY (i.e., EINSTEIN and RELATIVITY, with  E = MC?)."
2861	14/08/1986	One Over The Eight - II	Hen	196	2	"9-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to an alcoholic drink, e.g. 'Vin de table, Barry' leads to AVERTIBLE (+ BRANDY); a one-word definition of each such light has been added to one of the clues in the same direction."
2862	21/08/1986	"Double, Double"	Politicaster	144	1	"The 4 unbarred columns, when 'doubled' (i.e. folded upon themselves) and placed beside the unclued across light, form a 6 x 9 rectangle spelling (boustrophedon) 'THOU WITH CAREFUL BROW SITTING ALONE RECEIVED HAST THIS MESSAGE'."
2863	28/08/1986	Torquemada Revisited	Amicus	144	1	Clues are lines of doggerel containing definitions of the lights.
2864	04/09/1986	The Labours of Hercules - II The Lernean Hydra	Phi	144	4	"Most answers have their head (initial letter) removed and replaced by two others to form a new word, e.g. ACETIC leads to DOCETIC; these clues contain brief definitions of the lights. One-ninth of the answers are entered with their heads buried somewhere along their length (as one of the Hydra's nine heads was immortal and had to be buried)."
2865	11/09/1986	"Sock it to me, Mrs. B!"	Dimitry	144	4	"Perimeter lights are in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary; other lights are entered with initial and final letters Playfair-coded, using different codewords for across and down lights."	"Bluestocking, lexicography"
2866	18/09/1986	Musical Charades	Nibor	144	2	"20 answers, when paired, form the Christian names of 10 composers; the corresponding pairs of lights form anagrams of their surnames."	
2867	25/09/1986	Double Magic Square Bedecked - II	Leon	52	1	"Card puzzle; the pack is dealt into two magic squares, one 6 x 6 and one 4 x 4. Each rank corresponds to a letter, and DLM clues are given to anagrams of rows, columns and diagonals; suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) are clued in base 5."	
2868	02/10/1986	A Double Harness	Leiruza	144	2R	Lights are entered along two knight's tours; an independent knight's tour spells 'WHEN FIRST WE PRACTISE TO DECEIVE'.	
2869	09/10/1986	So It Is!	Casein	144	2	"10 MP clues lead to RISHI, VISTA, LEISURE, SCHISM, DISC, BISQUE, NOIST, CRISP, MALISON and FISHY, which show how to enter the remaining lights, e.g. HORRIBLY becomes HOHIHIIQUELY."	
2870	16/10/1986	Border Control	Duck	144	2	"Down lights are jumbled; 6 asterisked across clues each define two words and give a subsidiary indication to the light (the two words less a word spanning their border, e.g. CREE(P ICT)ERINE). The 6 removed words (MAC, JOCK, PICT, IAN, DUUNCAN, SCOT) are entered north of the unclued shaded row HADRIAN'S WALL."	
2871	23/10/1986	Crossing Code	Sabre	144	2	"A simple substitution cipher is used: 23 normal clues have encoded lights, while 19 encoded clues (consisting of definitions only) have normal lights."	
2872	30/10/1986	Clip on Tee Peg - III	Zander	144	4	"All lights are misprinted once, but are still words."	
2873	06/11/1986	Call My Bluff	Hellebore	144	4	"One-third of the clues define the lights, one-third define misprints of the lights and one-third define words which rhyme with the lights; in all cases subsidiary indications lead to the lights."	
2874	13/11/1986	Decal - III	Hotspur	136	2R	Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.	
2875	20/11/1986	Unique!	Eel	144	2	8 clues each lead to two answers differing only in an unchecked letter; the unused letters in order spell QUESTION.	
2876	27/11/1986	All in the Game	Salamanca	144	2	"Each clue, as well as leading to the answer, contains a hidden or jumbled beast which indicates how to change the answer to form the light, e.g. DITHYRAMB, HYRAX lead to DITAMB."	
2877	04/12/1986	Magichex	Law	91	6R	"Grid is hexagonal, with 6-letter lights entered around shaded hexagons, which must contain the numbers from 1 to 19 so as to form the unique magic hexagon. Clues are in two sets, numbered and lettered; the answer to each numbered clue is rearranged and one letter is changed to form the answer to a lettered clue, which is entered around the corresponding number. Letters discarded from answers to numbered clues, in the order of the corresponding lettered clues, spell 'TRACES OF THE SMALLEST (spider's web)'; perimeter spells ''TIS TRUE, THERE'S MAGIC IN THE WEB OF IT'."	
2878	11/12/1986	012345 6789A'B CDEF [Solver Match'd Bunk]	Kea	56	2R	"Numerical puzzle in hexadecimal, with one letter standing for each of the 16 digits throughout; grid reads 'THANK HEAVEN, AT LAST THE SUMMER'S DONE' - THOMAS CONSTABLE, 'OLD OCTOBER'."	
2879	18/12/1986	RF RS DI LD EZ GE HA IE EO [A Round White Pudding]	Mass	331	18R	"Grid is circular with radial lights having misprinted clues. Innermost circle spells 'A ROUND WHITE PUDDING' - definition in Chambers' of SNOWBALL. One circle contains 4-letter words whose letters are among those of SNOWBALL, while correct letters in clues spell 3-letter words with the same property."	Push me and I grow
2880	01/01/1987	The Morning After the Night Before	Phi	212	2	"12 'Revellers' double clues have pairs of lights entered around lettered squares; one light in each pair has a letter omitted, spelling 'RING IN THE NEW'. 4 unclued lights are drunken Scots (e.g. IHMHAS); in other clues subsidiary indications include extra letters, spelling 'MAN IN ALL THE MAGNANIMITY OF THOUGHT RESOLVES' - EDWARD YOUNG."	
2881	08/01/1987	Teamwise	Fabrizzio	144	2	"Across clues are LL, spelling 'AN ANAGRAM MADE FLESH', providing the subsidiary indication for 7 asterisked clues, whose lights are anagrams of synonyms of FLESH."	
2882	15/01/1987	Theme and Variations	Jago	150	1	"Answers are entered BOUSTROPHEDON (unclued); other unclued lights are the TRIONES, each ending with a star to form the Plough."	
2883	22/01/1987	Homage to Tracer	Adam	144	4R	"Lights are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder; 12-letter lights in the boundary are formed by juxtaposing two rungs, e.g. BATTER/ING-RAM."	
2884	29/01/1987	Just Do As You're Told - II	Klick	169	2	"Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Partitional plates upset pet' leads to SEPTAL, TOUT (= pet), giving SEPAL."	
2885	05/02/1987	Eucalyptus?	Calmac	121	2	Across answers are beheaded on entry; initial letters removed spell MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. 4 down lights are Playfair-coded; title suggests (S)TUART (she was beheaded 08/02/1587).	Fotheringay
2886	12/02/1987	Why not ...?	Apex	132	2	"Double clues have answers each omitting two letters on entry, spelling 'NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SINGLE; ALL THINGS, BY A LAW DIVINE, IN ONE ANOTHER'S BEING MINGLE. (Why not I with thine?)'"	
2887	19/02/1987	Rings	Mime	126	6R	Grid is circular with jumbled radial 6-letter lights; 10 satellites of SATURN appear in circles.	
2888	26/02/1987	Anniversary puzzle	Smokey	144	2	"Clues are in trios, and their answers lose CHI, K and M respectively, to mark the 3,000th issue of The Listener."	
2889	05/03/1987	Head-hunting - XIV	Zander	144	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'AND FORWARD BENDS HIS HEAD'.	
2890	12/03/1987	Walkabout	Mass	170	10R	"Grid is circular; clues to radial lights are in fours. One clue in each four lacks a definition, these lights being wanderers; wanderers are entered where indicated, but other lights need not be."	
2891	19/03/1987	Cunning Fox	Piccadilly	169	2	"Initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE, ANIMALS IN SYMBOLISM. 8 answers are replaced by the animals symbolising the appropriate qualities, e.g. MAJESTY leads to EAGLE."	
2892	26/03/1987	On record	Aelfre	120	1	"Grid represents a record groove. Spiral lights all omit P (with 'THE MISSING PAGE' unclued); radial lights all omit A, B, AB or O (with '(The) BLOOD DONOR' unclued); scratches spell '(The) RADIO HAM'. Label in centre is to be completed with TONY HANCOCK."	
2893	02/04/1987	Three Star Magic	Leon	48	4R	"Card puzzle; four cards are removed from the pack and remainder dealt into three magic 'octograms'. Suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) are clued by differences in base 5; each rank corresponds to a letter and clues are given to anagrams of lights."	
2894	09/04/1987	Schizologia	Amicus	144	4	"Each answer is entered in two halves, the first where indicated and the second elsewhere. Initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell 'I DO PERCEIVE HERE A DIVIDED DUTY' - WM. SHAKESPEARE."	
2895	16/04/1987	Completely Fair Play	Alcuin	150	1	"Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; all lights are Playfair-coded using a 6 x 6 codesquare, entered in three directions."	Cobalt 60
2896	23/04/1987	Tarts	Hamamelis	144	2	"Clues are DLM; 14 unclued lights are words with a silent initial letter missing, these letters being the initial letters of appropriately numbered clues."	
2897	30/04/1987	Mastermind	Sabre	144	2	6-letter lights are each clued by four guesses in the game of Mastermind with the respective scores; other down lights are jumbled.	
2898	07/05/1987	Mots Crois?s	Ragtag	144	4	"Italicised clues lead to words which are also words in French, with the definitions leading to the French meanings; definitions of the English meanings appear as superfluous words in other clues."	
2899	14/05/1987	Pig-in-the-Middle	Dimitry	121	2	"Lights, which may read in any of four directions, are entered using the 'pigpen' cipher; central light is SWINE, with each of the four points of the compass entered from its own direction and the central I from any. Perimeter, read from S, spells 'O WHEN SHALL ENGLISHMEN WITH SUCH ACTS FILL A PEN?'"	
2900	21/05/1987	Six Errant Characters in Search of an Author	Adam	144	2	"Six knights, each having TWELVE CANTOS of the FAERIE QUEENE (unclued), may be traced along knight's tours ending in asterisked squares."	
2901	28/05/1987	After the Op?	Ploutos	144	2	"16 answers contain a boy's or girl's name, to be replaced on entry with one of the opposite sex to form a new word, e.g. TRAYFUL leads to TRUTHFUL."	
2902	04/06/1987	Impartiality - II	Phi	144	4	"Each answer 'casts its vote' by replacing a C, L or A with an X, the numbers of votes cast for each party being equal. 4 lights (not voting) are Playfair-coded."	Stay in power
2903	11/06/1987	Oneupcluemanship	Eel	144	1	"Clues to 4- and 5-letter lights contain one-word definitions of them, but otherwise lead to other words, whose letters must each be advanced one place in the alphabet to form the lights, e.g. ANTS leads to BOUT."	
2904	18/06/1987	Mixed Doubles	Potin	144	2	"Half the answers are 'double' words, e.g. TETE, HUGGER-MUGGER (one letter change) or NAAN (halves echoed); either the light is, or the subsidiary indication refers to, half of the full word. Half the remaining clues require one of the words to be repeated at some point."	
2905	25/06/1987	Lobs Due?	Law	144	2	"Across lights represent games of a mixed doubles tennis match, with the numerical value of each letter being the number of valid shots in each rally. First two and last two lights are Playfair-coded; letter-mixtures of others, with letters of players' names inserted, appear in sequence in a match description."	Wimbledon
2906	02/07/1987	"Game, Set & Match"	Don Wimble	100	1	Grid is blank; each light represents a game in a tennis match. Letters are entered across or down according to which player wins the point concerned.	
2907	09/07/1987	Service Break	Trev	144	4	"Each unclued light is a motorway service station, less the letter in the position given by the number of the motorway e.g. KNUTS(F)ORD on the M6."	
2908	16/07/1987	KLUKODE - III	Klan	92	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  (excluding  I  and  O)  stand for the integers from 1 to 24 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them."	
2909	23/07/1987	Bedwords	Apex	144	2	"Most symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INVENTED BY THURBER. 12 lights are to be 'expanded' into words by being placed inside BEDs, e.g. BSI leads to CRAB-SIDLE."	
2910	30/07/1987	Stars and Stripes	Klick	169	2	"Unclued lights are Christian names of American film stars and presidents sharing the same surnames, e.g. JAMES and MARILYN (Monroe)."	
2911	06/08/1987	Figure It Out - 3	Alban	192	2	"6 asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights; perimeter reads 'THE RULE OF THREE DOTH PUZZLE ME, AND PRACTICE DRIVES ME MAD'."	Eighty-four
2912	13/08/1987	Cutting out the boring bits	Ricshaw	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling ENNUI, PROSINESS, MONOTONY, TEDIUM, ACEDIA, LONGUEUR. Top and bottom rows spell AVE ATQUE VALE RUSSELL TWISK (marking his departure from the editorship of The Listener)."	
2913	20/08/1987	Pastoral	Salamanca	182	2	"Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell RE(TO)RT COURTEOUS, REPLY CH(U)RLISH, COUNTER(CH)ECK QUARRELSOME, LIE CIRCUM(ST)ANTIAL, QUIP M(O)DEST, REPROOF VALIA(N)T, LIE DIR(E)CT; all said by TOUCHSTONE to be avoidable when replaced by IF (to be highlighted)."	
2914	27/08/1987	Sounding Out	Mascot	225	4	Half the clues in each direction contain definitions of their lights; the remainder contain 'rhyme-words' (involving sound changes). The rest of each clue is a subsidiary indication to a light in the other direction. The central lights across and down are clued separately by mixed definitions and rhymes.	
2915	03/09/1987	Hands Off!	Jago	144	2	"The letters of each light are transposed 12 places in the alphabet (with Q and Z excluded); first and last columns (unclued) then read END OF THE LAST DOG WATCH, which time (8 p.m.) is to be entered in the hands of the clock in the centre of the grid."	
2916	10/09/1987	Three Score and Ten	Zander	144	2	"Unclued lights are three synonyms of SCORE (LINE, GROUND, DEBT) and ten words from which TEN has been omitted to form other words, e.g. AN(TEN)NAL."	
2917	17/09/1987	Hexagonal - II	Bart	214	2R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights, mostly jumbled, are entered in three directions, with each clue single, double or treble, corresponding to one line in the grid. Perimeter reads 'SHAKESPEARE NEVER HAD SIX LINES TOGETHER  WITHOUT A FAULT'."	
2918	24/09/1987	WRBH	Hand in Glove	132	2	"All answers have equal numbers of vowels and consonants; only the consonants are entered, and across lights are reversed. Unclued central across light is HEBREW."	
2919	01/10/1987	Numerical	Piccadilly	81	4	"Numerical puzzle, with clues in terms of the letters of the word NUMERICAL, representing the 9 positive digits in an order to be determined. Each base from 2 to 10 is used in one row and one column. 7 lights are unclued, with clues (as products) to be given: EEL, CLAM, LLAMA, CAMEL, MULE, MAN, ANIMAL."	
2920	08/10/1987	Double Entry	Casein	144	2	"10 clues each contain two unwanted consecutive letters; in 10 other clues two consecutive letters have been omitted; 5 clues lack definitions, provided by the 10 unclued lights in pairs."	
2921	15/10/1987	Original Syns	Adam	144	1	"21 clues are first lines of poems, with the lights synonyms of their titles."	
2922	22/10/1987	'_________' (300 Years Old) [On a Girdle]	Apex	130	2	"First two and last two across answers (ZOSTER, BODICE, CORSET, SASHES) are Playfair-coded; remaining across lights are MP, with correct letters a rearrangement of EDMUND WALLER (d. 21/10/1687). Down clues are LL, spelling (with middle row of grid) encoded form of 'WITHIN THIS CIRCLE DWELLS ALL THAT'S FAIR'."	On a girdle
2923	29/10/1987	The Labours of Hercules - III The Erymanthian Boar	Phi	169	2	"18 clues are double, leading to two words which together with the light form an anagram of ERYMANTHIAN BOAR. Main diagonal is J-EURYSTHEUS-AR (when Hercules brought the boar back to King Eurystheus, he hid in a jar)."	
2924	05/11/1987	No Clues	Mime	169	2	"18 lights are clued only by numbers, using A = 1, B = 2, etc., e.g. 57 leads to STRIPLING, 1.0642 leads to SECT, 1.1761 leads to LOGO."	
2925	12/11/1987	Superstition	Sabre	156	2	4 clues are 'Black Cat' (CAT is removed on entry); 4 are 'Ladder' (L is added); 4 are 'Broken Mirror' (light is jumbled palindrome). All other lights are misprinted; three unclued rows spell THIRTEENTH OF A MONTH IS MOST LIKELY FRIDAY.	
2926	19/11/1987	Dismissed	Mass	196	2	"20 answers lose a deity initially, e.g. (THOR)NAPPLE; perimeter reads 'THERE'S A (DIVINITY) THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS, ROUGH-HEW THEM HOW WE WILL' - W.S., 'HAMLET'."	
2927	26/11/1987	Opera Parts	Amicus	144	4	"4 unclued lights (CARRIAGE, GOLF-BALL, SPACE-BAR, KEYBOARD) are encoded by replacing each letter by that immediately following it on a typewriter (by which OPERA becomes PARTS)."	
2928	03/12/1987	Drawing Set	Klick	169	2	Unclued lights down and across can be preceded by BLACK and WHITE respectively.	
2929	10/12/1987	Cellblock	Miguel	150	2R	"Grid comprises equilateral triangles with circles at centres of some hexagons; 7-letter lights are entered in and around appropriately numbered circles, which spell 'WORDS ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH', said by JOHNSON, possibly to BOSWELL (both unclued)."	
2930	17/12/1987	Carte Color?e	Eel	144	2	"Grid is blank with squares coloured, each colour corresponding to four letters (J and Z being ignored). Clues are given in order; 10 lights of the form _TO_ are clued only by the number of intermediate letters and by definitions occurring as superfluous words in other clues."	
2931	17/12/1987	Hungarian Goulash	Leon	54	4R	"Grid represents net of a Rubik cube with coloured squares; lights are 3-letter, either clued directly as words or appearing as alternate letters in answers. Unscrambled cube reads ERN? RUBIK MADE A CUBIC AND BY CLEVER KNACKS HE'S PUT IN TRIPLE AXES."	
2932	31/12/1987	Justyn Print - VIII	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Cameo' leads to MINNIE CHEWER."	
2933	07/01/1988	New Year's Revolutions	Smokey	196	2	"Half the clues are normal, but the light is an anagram of the answer; in the remainder one word of the definition must be replaced by an anagram. 12 pairs of unclued lights form anagrams of the months of the French revolutionary calendar."	
2934	14/01/1988	Heart Transplants - III	Duck and Hen	144	4	The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.	
2935	21/01/1988	4 Across 33 Down [Stateside Stripes]	Calmac	144	2	"On entry, 13 answers lose abbreviations of the original states comprising the United States (represented by the stripes of the Anerican flag); subsidiary indications are to the forms entered."	
2936	28/01/1988	Quasar	Corylus	168	2	"8 unclued lights (-APPLES, -BRIGHT, -RINESS, -VATION, -MONGER, -ANISES, -SHAPED and -RY-EYED) run outwards from the central STAR."	
2937	04/02/1988	Bicycling	Ozzie	144	2	Most clues lead to cyclic permutations of the lights (all still words); in the remainder the subsidiary indications lead to cyclic permutations (not words) of the lights.	
2938	11/02/1988	Jigsaw	Politicaster	143	1	Lights travel from given initial squares in any of four directions and may make up to 2 changes of direction.	
2939	18/02/1988	Fiat Lux	Swan	144	2	"Across lights are encoded by writing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, placing the alphabet above this and replacing each letter by that below it."	Strangely
2940	25/02/1988	The Labours of Hercules - IV The Ceryneian Hind	Phi	169	2	"Unclued lights represent the chase, in which Hercules (H) came ever nearer to the tail of the hind (D): MODERATORSHIP, DOWNRIGHTNESS, DEBAUCHER, ELDRITCH, SDEATH, DISH-CLOUT, DEHISCE. Subsidiary indications lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling BUILDING HAVING A RELIGIOUS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE, leading to the final stage DHARMSALA. One row contains HERC-HIND-ULES (where Hercules caught the hind)."	
2941	03/03/1988	Call my bluff	Virgilius	144	2	"Each light has three 'definitions': one is a normal definition, one is a subsidiary indication and one contains a letter-mixture."	
2942	10/03/1988	Name-day	Dimitry	144	2	"Theme is MARX (i.e., MAR 10): unclued theme-words are LEONARD, HERBERT, ADOLPH and JULIUS (original Christian names of the Marx brothers). Other unclued lights are variations on five of their films: Monkey Business (BABOONERY, APERY); Horse Feathers (MOUNT, DOWN); Go West (DEECORP, TRAPED); A Night at the Opera ((T)ANNHAUSER, (T)RISTAN); Animal Crackers (LAMINA, MANILA). Down clues contain superfluous words which can be rearranged into a quotation by Karl Marx."	
2943	17/03/1988	Fives - In Memoriam Ulixis	Ploutos	180	2	"All clues are DLM; each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word, also defined in the clue). New letters spell 'BUT TWO ARE WALKING APART FOR EVER, AND WAVE THEIR HANDS FOR A MUTE FAREWELL' - JEAN INGELOW."	
2944	24/03/1988	Indeksikod	Klan	65	2R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z, A, ..., E  (excluding  i  and  o)  stand for the integers from 1 to 29 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them."	
2945	31/03/1988	Just What the Doctor Ordered	Mass	144	2	"7 lights in each direction contain abbreviations of the days of the week; subsidiary indications in these clues lead to the remaining letters. Other clues are MP, with correct letters spelling 'LOOK UPON EVERY DAY TO BE LOST'."	
2946	07/04/1988	"YTSOUFEI'L RTGUB (or THE LISTENER _______) [Thursday's Child, Plus Mighty A. Coren]"	Amicus	144	2	"6 answers contain MON, TU, WED, FR, SAT and SUN, to be replaced by the appropriate names from 'The Man who was Thursday'; 4 lights are Playfair-coded."	Plus mighty A. Coren
2947	14/04/1988	One Left	Duck	144	2	"Nine answers lose a tree on entry; 4 lights (all trees) are Playfair-coded. Remaining clues are MP, with misprints spelling 'SPARE, WOODMAN, SPARE THE BEECHEN TREE'."	Lumberjack
2948	21/04/1988	Missing Links XV	Zander	144	2	13 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.	
2949	28/04/1988	Eremikon	Sabre	144	4R	"There are four blank 6 x 6 grids, with across lights jumbled. In each grid, 2 unclued down lights are desert winds, and 2 unclued across lights are desert plants (one jumbled and the other encoded by subtracting the name of a desert, e.g. MESCAL - SAHARA = TDKBIK)."	
2950	05/05/1988	Spring in the Air	Jewel	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'SHEPHERD'S GARLAND' BY MICHAEL DRAYTON, the source of the perimeter quotation 'THE OUSEL AND THE THROSTLECOCK, CHIEF MUSIC OF OUR MAY'."	
2951	12/05/1988	Seesaw	Gos	121	1	"Lights are entered diagonally, half of them up and half down; BISHOP'S MOVES appears in the grid."	
2952	19/05/1988	A Golden Chain	Law	169	4	"Lights are misprinted, with subsidiary indications leading to the forms to be entered. Beginning in the isolated central square and moving along each light in turn, changing direction at each misprint, spells 'AND DRAGS AT EACH REMOVE A LENGTHENING CHAIN' (by Goldsmith)."	
2953	26/05/1988	How Many Bottles?	Jago	143	2	"Grid is round (with parts of squares at circumference); clues are DLM. Unclued lights are items brought by the Jumblies, with initial and final letters transposed; the one missing is 'forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree', so 40 is entered in the central isolated square."	
2954	02/06/1988	Fair Exchange	Nibor	144	1	"12 answers are old London telephone exchanges, and are entered encoded by adding the modern numerical equivalents of each letter, e.g. TABARD + 822822 = BCDITF."	
2955	09/06/1988	Crosswords	Smokey	144	2	"Across clues are subsidiary indications to 'crossbreeds', e.g. BAYWOLF (BAYARD, DEMIWOLF); the lights are the other hybrids, e.g. DEMIARD."	
2956	16/06/1988	Clues as Lights	Waterloo	144	1	"Across lights are in themselves clues (without definition) to other words; clues given are definitions into which these clued words have been introduced, e.g. 'Clap lots amplified' leads to HUNDREDFOLD."	
2957	23/06/1988	Words _____ Finding [Worth]	Apex	152	1	"Theme is Wordsworth's poem composed on Westminster Bridge. There are various types of clue: Playfair, LL (spelling TOWERS, DOMES), MP (spelling ALPHA AND OMEGA), PD (with initial letters of clues spelling RIVER, THEATRES); perimeter and central row contain words from the poem."	Bridge
2958	30/06/1988	Take Four or Five	Adam	40	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are quintuples of numbers such that the sum of any four, or of all five, is a perfect square, together with the six square roots."	
2959	07/07/1988	No Offence Intended	Klick	169	2	Unclued lights are terms used in defensive fortifications.	
2960	14/07/1988	36 Holes	Phalarope	144	2	"Grid represents two 18-hole golf courses, where each green is adjacent to the next tee. Clues are double; for each hole number, one letter is 'sliced' from the first course and 'hooked' into the second, spelling THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT."	
2961	21/07/1988	Lost in T'Woods	Blod	144	4	"Clues are LL, spelling 'TIME TO WIN THIS GAME AND THRASH T'SPANIARDS'; 4 lights are Playfair-coded."	Quoth Drake
2962	28/07/1988	The Name of the Game	Duck	225	2	"Across clues are double or treble; lights are entered separated by letters from down lights, which form a bowls configuration of the jack and 6 woods together with the letters of FRANCIS DRAKE."	
2963	04/08/1988	Two in One	Alcuin	54	1	"Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. Two sets of clues are given, either of whose lights fill the grid."	
2964	11/08/1988	Cricket Scoreboard	Phil Brindall	121	1	"Grid represents a 40-over innings (20 overs in each direction); each over is a 6-letter light (or 7-letter in one case in each direction, due to a no-ball), and the runs scored off each ball are added to each letter on entry, e.g. PLENTY + 242000 = RPGNTY. The score after each over is given."	
2965	18/08/1988	Times Square	BeRo	144	2	"The lights SEV, ENT, YTH and REE are unclued; the configuration FO above UR appears four times in the grid. Lights FACTORIAL, ROOT, PLUS, DIVIDE, POINTS and RECURRING (together with TIMES and SQUARE from the title) assist in finding an expression for 73 using four fours."	
2966	25/08/1988	Playfer	Mass	169	2	"18 lights are anagrams of the answers with initial and final letters removed. Six 4-letter lights have italicised clues, and anagrams, all horses, are given in Playfair-coded form. Perimeter spells NIKOLAI DISCOVERED A WILD EQUINE SPECIES IN CENTRAL ASIA."	Przewalski
2967	01/09/1988	The Labours of Hercules V	Phi	180	2	10 answers lose names of birds on entry; letters of these names may be rearranged to fill a separate small grid. 20 remaining clues have superfluous words defining the lights in the small grid in order; the other 6 clues consist of definitions together with letter-mixtures of the lights plus birds. Diagonal of small grid is RATTLE (used by Hercules to frighten away the birds).	
2968	08/09/1988	Jigsaw Alphabetical	Imbricata	100	2	"Clues are presented in reverse alphabetical order of the lights reversed; subsidiary indications ignore the final letters, which exhaust the alphabet, with repetition only when two lights end in the same square."	
2969	15/09/1988	Last Night	Nibor	191	2	"Each answer gains an extra letter on entry, spelling ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON, JAMES THOMSON, WILLIAM BLAKE; clues contain definitions and letter-mixtures of the lights. Perimeter reads 'MOTHER OF THE FREE', 'NEVER WILL BE SLAVES', 'DARK SATANIC MILLS'."	
2970	22/09/1988	Horses for Courses	Mespot	144	2	"8 answers contain a synonym of 'course', to be replaced by a horse on entry, e.g. APATHY leads to AJADEY."	
2971	29/09/1988	Follow Suit	Piccadilly	56	1R	"Card puzzle: the pack is dealt into eight rows of 6 cards and one of 4, and clues are given in rows and columns to products of ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7). Cards are given letter equivalences, and clues are also given to nine lights. In the patience an exposed card at the foot of a column may be built on a card of the same suit in the bottom row in ascending or descending sequence; the final state of the bottom row is then the dedicatee LEON."	
2972	06/10/1988	Place Setting II	Aelfre	140	4R	"In each row and column a double clue leads to two answers, to be interwoven on entry, e.g. FUMADO, GIMBAL lead to FGUIMMABDAOL. One clue in each pair has either the definition or the light misprinted; misprinted letters in grid form the diagonal GESUNDHEIT."	
2973	13/10/1988	Sixes and Sevens XIV	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.	
2974	20/10/1988	Marksmen	Leon	144	2	Unclued lights are doges of Venice.	
2975	27/10/1988	Eclipse	Smokey	144	2	"Half the clues are LL, spelling 'LET THEM NOT SEE THE SUN'; remaining answers lose RA on entry."	
2976	03/11/1988	All Square	Swan	144	2	"Down answers are encoded using four 5 x 5 squares beneath the grid (two of which are largely to be determined): pairs of letters are located in squares B and C, are encoded by the letters in squares A and D forming a rectangle with them."	
2977	10/11/1988	Primatology	Kea	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters are added to across answers or subtracted from down answers, spelling 'A MAN FOR AYE REMOVED FROM THE DEVELOP'D BRUTE'; unclued lights are AYEDRILL, AYEGABEY, SIAAYEG, HANUAYE."	
2978	17/11/1988	Order a Small Number	Eel	144	1	"Clues are given in random order; the first two letters of each form the symbol of a chemical element, whose atomic number gives the location of the light. 12 unclued lights have as unchecked letters the appropriate 1-letter symbols."	
2979	24/11/1988	Perfect Square	Mime	144	2	"Lights are transliterated into the alphabet devised by ST. THOMAS MORE (leading diagonal) for UTOPIA. Some of the equivalences are given; the rest are to be deduced, as half the lights in each direction are entered upside-down."	
2980	01/12/1988	Knight's Progress	Casein	224	1	"Grid is inscribed in a circle; lights entirely within the central 8 x 8 square are jumbled. A knight's tour of this square spells ARTHUR, KAY, MODRED, TOR, GERAINT, PERCIVAL, GAWAIN, LANCELOT, GALAHAD: ROUND TABLE."	
2981	08/12/1988	Skin Grafts	Amicus	144	4	Clues are DLM; the outer two letters of each light are entered elsewhere.	
2982	15/12/1988	Give and Take V	Bart	168	2	To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Certain diagonals spell 'UNCOUTH WORDS IN DISARRAY'.	
2983	22/12/1988	Read the Bars	Corylus	231	1	"Grid is blank; bars to be entered form HAPPY XMAS (with some diagonal, dividing squares in two). Clues are normal, PD, LL (spelling 'OLD CHRISTMAS BROUGHT HIS SPORTS AGAIN'), MP (spelling CHRISTMAS DAY) and Playfair. Three 21-letter lights are unclued."	Dec 25th
2984	22/12/1988	A Christmas Crossword	Ploutos	684	2	"Puzzle is a Times-style jumbo; unclued lights are 'IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER', 'A CHILD THIS DAY IS BORN', MELCHIOR, CASPAR, BALTHAZAR, GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH."	
2985	05/01/1989	Jack Frost & Co	Mass	144	2	"Ten clues contain redundant expressions including letter-mixtures of theme-words (ICE, SNOW etc.), to be mixed with the answers to form the lights. Remaining clues are DLM with letter-mixtures including extra letters, spelling THE WARMEST CHRISTMAS WISHES TO ALL."	
2986	12/01/1989	The Labours of Hercules VI The Augean Stables	Phi	144	2	"Unclued lights are GIHON, PISHON, TIGRIS, EUPHRATES; MEUSE, STUD, MANEGE, STALL - the rivers are diverted to pass through the stables (interpolating extra letters), leaving four squares in their original paths blank."	
2987	19/01/1989	Prize Prime Digitry	Dimitry	48	2	"Numerical puzzle: clues define pairs of words differing in one letter; each letter represents a different number less than 60, and the light is the prime obtained as the sum of the squares of the differing letters, e.g. PRIZE PRIME leads to Z? + M?."	
2988	26/01/1989	Nomos	Essem	169	2	"Across clues are MP, spelling 'MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS'; down clues are PD. Remaining lights are words less JAN, FEB etc., defined in random order."	
2989	02/02/1989	Little Difference	Sabre	144	2	Each letter is assigned a digit; 11 lights are clued numerically in terms of Diophantine equations in which a cube or fifth power is close to a square.	
2990	09/02/1989	Diff	Aelfre	144	2	"The preamble states 'letters of ANSWERS should always be CHANGED before entry', i.e., A is entered as C, N as H etc."	
2991	16/02/1989	Inside Out IV	Duck	144	2	"Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear."	
2992	23/02/1989	Siamese Twins	Poat	182	2	"Grid comprises two 17 x 5 rectangles joined in the middle, where SEEING DOUBLE is unclued. 4 down lights are pairs of words of the same length overlapping one letter, either mutual synonyms or mutual anagrams. 8 normal clues and 8 DLM clues have answers losing letters on entry, each spelling INARCHED; half of each set of lights are jumbled. CONGENER, INSEPARABLE, SIB, UNITED are unclued."	
2993	02/03/1989	Just Do As You're Told III	Klick	169	2	"Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'It has spoilt the hot joint' leads to HET, LOIN (= joint), giving HELOT."	
2994	09/03/1989	Two Bedroom Bungalow	Centigram	242	1	"Grid is the floor plan of a house with six 6 x 6 rooms; each contains an unclued light identifying which room it is (e.g. LOOFAH), enabling an isolated square to be correctly filled. 'Passageway' clues are normal; within each room clues are in random order."	
2995	16/03/1989	Helix	Piccadilly	169	1	"Grid is blank; clues are in largely random order, leading to words forming an overlapping spiral. Diagonals spell TO SOLVER: DIAGONALS ARE USEFUL."	
2996	23/03/1989	Wintry Weather	Alcuin	150	1	"Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. Clues are MP, spelling EVERYMAN'S DICTIONARY OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, wherein can be found the 13 unclued lights (characters from SNOW's 'Strangers and Brothers' sequence of novels)."	
2997	30/03/1989	Skelekode II	Klan	121	2R	"Numerical puzzle; grid is blank to be completed with black squares. The letters  a, b, c, ..., z  (excluding  i  and  o)  stand for the integers from 2 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues and light-lengths are in terms of them."	
2998	06/04/1989	6 Down [Decentralised]	Machiavelli	169	2	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented centrally by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."	
2999	13/04/1989	UHLAKHPT [Playhouses]	Keslit [Apex]	100	2	"Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words, or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using a different codeword for each quarter of the grid."	"Aldwych, Cambridge, Phoenix, Wyndham's"
3000	20/04/1989	Mmm ... The Listener's Capital Entertainment	"Ploutos, Salamanca, Sabre, Duck, Phi, Dimitry"	720	1	"Grid is an L shape comprising five 12 x 12 grids: DANGERUX (definitions or lights gain or lose a B (3000 in mediaeval Roman numerals)); Froghop (down lights are misprinted with the correct letters, spelling LISTENER THREE THOUSAND, appearing a knight's move away from the locations concerned); Alternation (LL clues spell CHAMBERS' CROSSWORD COMPLETER, while remaining clues lead to 6-letter words whose 1st, 3rd and 5th letters are the 2nd, 4th and 6th of the lights, which are defined by superfluous words in other clues); Blood Transfusions (some answers exchange one of A, B, AB and O for another to form the light, another word; other clues are MP, spelling 'BLOOD, THEY SAY, BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD'); L's Bells (lights are entered by treating letters as bells and performing change-ringing). One row and column in an L shape read 'MAKE ONE BRAVE PUSH AND SEE WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN A WEEK' - R.L.S.; central 4 x 4 square of final grid contains THE THREE THOUSAND."	
3001	27/04/1989	Snakes and Ladders X	Zander	144	2	"Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere."	
3002	04/05/1989	'________ _______S' [American Lyricists]	Apex	165	1	"Unclued lights are JOHNNY BURKE ('PENNIES FROM HEAVEN'), MITCHELL PARISH ('STAR DUST'), OTTO HARBACH ('SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES'), LEO ROBIN ('THANKS FOR THE MEMORY') - all AMERICAN LYRICISTs featured in 'THE POETRY OF POPULAR SONG' BROADCAST ON RADIO FOUR BY ROY DEAN (formed by transferring letters from certain numbered squares to separate grids)."	
3003	11/05/1989	Posers Plus	Ingrid	144	2	Unclued lights are composers.	
3004	18/05/1989	Courting Couples	Llig	169	2	"Four lights clued by one-word definitions are ROYALTY, FORTITUDE, PIETY, WISDOM - the qualities represented by the queens in a French pack of cards. The names of the kings and queens form the perimeter; clues are thematic."	
3005	25/05/1989	L'Etranger	Kea	144	2R	In each answer one letter moves to the outside on entry; 8 unclued lights are terms given to people in foreign situations.	
3006	01/06/1989	For U	Hand in Glove	144	2	"Each answer is entered in one of four ways depending on the quarter of the grid containing its initial letter: normally, in reverse, with letters in alphabetical order or with letters in reverse alphabetical order."	
3007	08/06/1989	What the Butlers See	Mass	204	2R	"Grid is elliptical with 6-letter radial lights; one third are anagrams of answers less P or D. Two circuits contain four quartets of variations on theme-words: BALL, BUNDLE, SKEIN, TANGLE (clue); COUNTER, BACKCHAT, ECHO, RETORT (answer); CANDLE, TORCH, LANTERN, FLAMBEAU (light); ERGO, LUTETIUM, TREE, ADVANCED (so/lu/ti/on)."	
3008	15/06/1989	M.D.'s 2nd XI	Novamor	169	2	"11 clues lead to surnames of writers, the lights being their second Christian names, entered in locations to be determined."	
3009	22/06/1989	A Three-Pipe Problem	Law	154	1	"Grid represents the floor of a room, with lights entered along three pipes roaming from centre of top row to centre of bottom row, traversing each square twice. The alphabet is divided into three groups, each corresponding to one of three configurations of pipes in a square. There are three types of clue (with the type for a given light determined by the group in which its initial letter lies): normal, DLM and MP, the last spelling BOAT RETURNS SALT - TOUCH OF SUN, which may be read in each of the three ways to clue the final light of each pipe."	
3010	29/06/1989	Sonnets from the Poet: You Guess	Calmac	144	4	"Two sonnets are given, each containing definitions of the lights in one direction (in order) and letter-mixtures of those in the other direction (in random order)."	
3011	06/07/1989	Topped and Tailed V	Klick	169	2	Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.	
3012	13/07/1989	Rock Ride	Mr. Lemon	144	2	"Theme is RODERICK RANDOM: 6-letter lights are jumbled, and six unclued lights are characters. Unchecked letters of jumbled lights may be rearranged as SMOLLETT; first and last letters of grid are TG (his initials)."	
3013	20/07/1989	Hands Off! II	Jago	135	1R	"The letters of two unbarred columns, when transposed 12 places in the alphabet (excluding Q and Z), spell 'AND IS THERE HONEY STILL FOR TEA?' 2:50 is to be entered in the hands of the church clock in the middle of the grid."	
3014	27/07/1989	Count Down	Leon	52	1	"Card puzzle: the pack is dealt in a spiral, face upwards; letters are assigned to ranks and DLM clues are given to anagrams of spiral and radial lights, while suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4). The sequence AC, ..., KC, AD, ..., KD, AH, ..., KH, AS, ..., KS is used repeatedly to count down the spiral, with any card correctly counted being turned over and thereafter ignored; the entire pack is turned over in eight descents, with 10 cards turned over in the first, 9 in the second and so on."	
3015	03/08/1989	Litotes	Goujeers	144	2	"Title suggests T.S. ELIOT: clues at 1 across and 1 down define WATER, FIREWATER, ROSEWATER and BUG, FIREBUG, WATERBUG respectively; initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell 'AND THE FIRE AND THE ROSE ARE ONE' (the last line of 'Four Quartets'), resolving the matter."	
3016	10/08/1989	Bylines	"_____ & _________ [Sabre, Salamanca]"	144	2	"Setters appear jumbled in shaded areas; each clued half the rows and half the columns, each of which contains two words. One word in each column gains or loses a letter on entry, spelling jumbles of WEAPON and BATTLE respectively, which describe the unclued across lights (one in each row)."	
3017	17/08/1989	All-round Curtains	Ploutos	144	4	"Each row and column contains three 4-letter lights, written cyclically; each clue contains a normal clue to a 7-letter word whose alternate letters form one light, a superfluous word defining a second light, and an 8-letter word which is a misprinted anagram of the second and third lights."	
3018	24/08/1989	The Seeing Eye	Duck	134	1	"Grid is circular; radial lights, all 8-letter bar one, are jumbled. Certain circles spell C. WREN, SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, THE WHISPERING GALLERY and 'SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS...' - CIRCUMSPICE is to be written below the grid."	
3019	31/08/1989	Rubilee	Zander	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling 'DISENVOWELLED' BY ZANDER, FIRST SEPTEMBER NINETEEN FORTY-NINE."	
3020	07/09/1989	501 (8x)	BeRo	144	2	"Unchecked letters in the five unclued lights spell NASIK; if grid is divided into nine 4 x 4 squares and the totals of the numerical values of the letters in each are taken, they form a 3 x 3 magic square with magic constant 501."	
3021	14/09/1989	Pieces of Eight II	Smokey	169	2	"The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. SAMP-HIRE; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere."	
3022	21/09/1989	Red Herrings	Amicus	144	4	"Subsidiary indications lead to lights with extra letters ('red herrings') added; these can be arranged to form the five encoded unclued lights, whose uncoded forms are GRAHAM, GOWAN, STRACHAN, FARREN, WATERS (the innocent parties in 'Five Red Herrings' by Dorothy L. Sayers)."	Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey
3023	28/09/1989	Birdwatch	Salamanca	144	2	"Answers are altered on entry by birds, either hidden or jumbled in clues, e.g. HAZELS, MISSEL lead to HAZS. Unclued lights are birds lacking AND, e.g. S(AND)PIPER."	
3024	05/10/1989	Labours of Hercules VII Cretan Bull	Phi	144	2	"Grid is blank. Preamble reads 'Clues are normal. They are presented in random order. Solvers should not enter bars.' - all of which are 'lies', as are the clues in various ways."	
3025	12/10/1989	Altared States	Poat	99	1R	"Grid is altar-shaped; SUOVETAURILIA is unclued. Nine answers lose animals appropriately: S(HOG)UN, DI(SOW)N, E(PIG)ONS; COR(TEG)E, REN(EWE)D, S(TUP)ENT; S(COW)LING, T(OX)ICAL, CU(NEAT)E."	
3026	19/10/1989	Whirligig	Sabre	144	4	"In each set of four symmetrically positioned lights, two are entered normally, one is jumbled and one encoded by a simple substitution cipher (clues to the latter two being italicised)."	
3027	26/10/1989	ABC	Alcuin	150	1	"Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. 26 unclued lights are film titles whose initial letters are all different."	
3028	02/11/1989	Jumping Crackers	Mass	144	2	"Half the clues lead to anagrams of the lights; definitions occur as superfluous words in other clues. Unclued lights are variously suggested by parts of 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT'."	
3029	09/11/1989	A Frame-Up	Kea	144	2	"Grid only has horizontal bars; 5 lights in each direction have a letter misplaced. Unclued rows read VIDE MULLION AND MONIAL IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY; when these (vertical bars) are entered, the bars read MULLEN and MUNELL (variations in the O.E.D.)."	
3030	16/11/1989	Six Residential Characters in Search of an Author	Adam	143	1	Unclued lights are characters and their homes in 'Pride and Prejudice'.	
3031	23/11/1989	Alternative Accommodation	Law	144	2	"14 clues lead to words one letter shorter than the number of squares available; the extra square is to be filled with two alternatives, each extending the word to a longer one, e.g. T I T H/L E. Superfluous words in remaining clues define the longer words."	
3032	30/11/1989	Pie and Chips	Dimitry	144	2	"Across answers are entered with letters in alphabetical order (as CHIPS), down answers with letters in reverse alphabetical order (as PIE)."	
3033	07/12/1989	M?bius Strip	Alban	144	4R	"Most lights are 8-letter, entered along 'M?bius paths' (two crossing diagonals of four squares each, with the bottom square of each to be followed by the top square of the other); unclued lights are HORSEMAN, REPTILES, CONVEX AND CONCAVE, M.C. ESCHER."	
3034	14/12/1989	Fat Gang	Dado	178	2	Four lights are Playfair-coded; perimeter reads 'THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AND MEN GANG AFT AGLEY' - R. BURNS.	Forecast
3035	21/12/1989	Carol __________ [-us Linnaeus]	Goujeers	144	2	"10 clues have misprinted definitions; the misprints spell -US LINNAEUS, as do the correct letters in jumbled fashion. 6 lights clued without definitions are HEDERA HELIX, ILEX AQUIFOLIUM, VISCUM ALBUM."	
3036	21/12/1989	Smokey's Christmas Party III	Smokey	169	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Fairy Whispers (both clues and lights are misprinted), Pin the Tail on the Donkey (creatures with last letters misplaced), Hunt the Thimble (LL, spelling FINGERSTALL) and Crackers (lights are anagrams of answers)."	
3037	04/01/1990	Diceword	Phobis	144	2	"24 letters are used, each appearing on one face of one of four dice; the faces are numbered, and in order from 1 to 6 the four dice bear the words FJORDS, PLUMBY, THWACK and VEXING. Fourteen lights are clued by dice throws, e.g. (1,2,4,3) leads to FLAX (an anagram of the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 3rd letters on the dice in order)."	
3038	11/01/1990	Forwards	Zander	144	2	"Theme-words QUICK (PIERCING, SOON, ADROIT); MARCH (PROGRESS, BORDER, STEP); LEFT (PORT, RESIGNED, SINISTER); RIGHT (REDRESS, MEET, DIRECT)."	
3039	18/01/1990	Primes II	Piccadilly	121	2	"Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 12 is used for one row and one column."	
3040	25/01/1990	3 Ply	Mespot	144	2	"In 6 of the rows lights are entered according to 'knitting patterns', e.g. (K1, S1, K1, p.s.s.o., Dr1, K2) means that BRANKS becomes BARKS."	
3041	01/02/1990	What's Subtle About It? or Look At This	Peeper	225	2	"12 clues are in fact subtitles of literary works with extraneous words added, the lights being the titles."	
3042	08/02/1990	Double Helix	Adam	144	2	"Grid is blank; each row or column is presumed to run on to the next, and lights are clued in order, always with one or two unchecked letters between successive lights."	
3043	15/02/1990	One-Time Pad	Swan	144	2	"Down lights are normal; across answers are encoded on entry by regarding A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc. and adding 'AND THUS THE NATIVE HUE OF RESOLUTION IS SICKLIED O'ER WITH THE PALE CAST OF THOUGHT; AND ENTERPRISES OF GREAT PITH AND MOMENT, WITH THIS REGARD, THEIR CURRENTS TURN AWRY, AND LOSE ...'."	
3044	22/02/1990	The Labours of Hercules VIII The Horses of Diomedes	Phi	144	2	"Eight clues lead to words which, with the addition of a letter from DIOMEDES, may be rearranged to form a horse, which is to be entered along knight's moves, passing through an isolated square."	
3045	01/03/1990	Three by Three	Sabre	162	4R	"There are two 9 x 9 grids; across answers are entered in one, down in the other. One is formed from the other by rearranging the nine 3 x 3 blocks into which it may be divided; three rows of the 'down' grid read TERN, TRINE; TREY, PRIAL; TRIO, LEASH."	
3046	08/03/1990	Misdefined II	Dogop	144	2	All clues are MP (original puzzle was no. 2046).	
3047	15/03/1990	Y	Calmac	169	2	"Title is really IVRY; each answer loses a different IVR synbol on entry, while initial letters of clues spell 'NOW GLORY TO THE LORD OF HOSTS, FROM WHOM ALL GLORIES ARE' (the first line of the poem)."	
3048	22/03/1990	Stormy Fellows	Klick	169	2	"Unclued lights across are LADON, AELLO, DROMAS, CANACE, STICTE (dogs belonging to Actaeon as related by OVID); those down are GROWLTIGER, GUS, MORGAN, MACAVITY (from 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats')."	
3049	29/03/1990	Solitaire III	Leon	52	4R	"Card puzzle; the pack is dealt in a solitaire shape. Clues are given to products along diagonals of ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7). The solitaire is played with superior cards jumping inferior ones (order being KS, ..., AS, KH, ..., AH, KD, ..., AD, KC, ..., AC) once KS is removed."	
3050	05/04/1990	Diamonds	Blod	167	2R	"Grid is diamond-shaped, comprising hexagons; shaded ones are to contain numbers forming a 6 x 6 magic square, and lights are entered around them, 4 being Playfair-coded. Perimeter reads 'IT TAKES A GREAT MAN TO MAKE A GOOD LISTENER' - ARTHUR HELPS. (Puzzle marks diamond anniversary of The Listener Crossword.)"	Birthday gems
3051	12/04/1990	Playing Truant	Apex	148	2	"Clues are double, leading to pairs of symmetrically placed lights. 8 unclued 4-letter lights are anagrams of fish; 8 perimeter answers, clued only by definition, lose the fish on entry."	
3052	19/04/1990	Head-Hunting XV	Zander	169	2	The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WHEN OUR HEADS ARE BOWED WITH WOE'.	
3053	26/04/1990	Cluedo	Law	169	1R	"Grid is a Cluedo board, with 9 shaded rooms; A-F represent the suspects, G-L the murder weapons and M-U the rooms. A game is played between two players: each room contains a 3-letter unclued 'suggestion' made by one player, who upon seeing the nine cards consequently shown was able to deduce the fatal combination (FLU); nine 6-letter lights have LL clues spelling the cards in his hand, while remaining clues are MP, spelling IT'S THE VERY LAST THING YOU WOULD THINK OF."	
3054	03/05/1990	Roll a Penny	Smokey	144	2	"Each answer contains one letter P, entered misplaced."	
3055	10/05/1990	EP	Salamanca	210	1	"Grid is a record with lights entered radially and in a spiral along a groove. 6 Elvis Presley songs (in the groove) affect radial answers: HARD-HEADED WOMAN (answers gain H initially to become girls' names), ALL SHOOK UP (light is an anagram of the answer), WOODEN HEART (a tree is inserted centrally to form another word), I'M LEAVIN' (I'M is omitted), BURNING LOVE (O is omitted), RETURN TO SENDER (answer is entered reversed)."	
3056	17/05/1990	At a Loose End	Kea	200	1	"Grid is made up of squares and trapezia. Most across lights are jumbled; strings of lights (with DLM clues in passages) weave up and down, being reflected at bars. Trapezia spell 'COME, THOU MORTAL WRETCH, WITH THY SHARP TEETH THIS (KNOT) INTRINSICATE OF LIFE AT ONCE UNTIE'."	
3057	24/05/1990	Springtime	Sabre	216	2	"Alternate squares are split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. Upper triangles spell 'SUMER IS ICUMEN IN, LHUDE SING CUCCU! GROWETH SED, AND BLOWETH MED, AND SPRINGTH THE WUDE NU'."	
3058	31/05/1990	The Lost Chord	Llig	144	2	All lights are entered from the perimeter inwards; unclued lights are (some of) the Gates of Jerusalem.	
3059	07/06/1990	"____________________ [Gresham's Law Rules, OK?]"	Amicus	144	4	"Half the clues are LL, spelling GRESHAM'S LAW RULES, OK? - this applies to the remaining, in which coins are replaced by anagrams, e.g. FRANCHISE becomes NRACFHISE."	
3060	14/06/1990	At the Bar	Ploutos	144	2	"Many lights are in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words."	
3061	21/06/1990	Constitutional	Goujeers	156	2	"Across lights, entered normally, have LL clues spelling 'MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS'; unclued down lights are SUCHPREISENT and JOYS."	
3062	28/06/1990	R and L	Dimitry	99	1R	"Grid is blank and has Cartesian co-ordinates; lights (all 5-letter) are entered letter by letter in squares whose co-ordinates are successive pairs in a Fibonacci-like sequence, e.g. (0,1), (1,1), (1,2), (2,3), (3,5), ... (working modulo 10). REN? DESCARTES and LEONARDO FIBONACCI appear in the grid."	
3063	05/07/1990	Six Distraught Characters in Search of an Author	Adam	144	2	12 unclued lights are anagrams of first and last names of 6 Shavian characters.	
3064	12/07/1990	Play Printer's Defilry	Apex	100	2	"Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues are definition and PD for the two words. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using a different codeword for each quarter of the grid, together with a message which decodes as TURN BOCK INTO VASE; this indicates the letters to be changed in the codewords which must then be rearranged to form THE RIVALS, LANGUISH, ABSOLUTE, ACRES."	"Herbalist, Housling, Bluecoat, Racks"
3065	19/07/1990	Gridcode	Phi	160	1	"Grid is a 12 x 12 square with the central 8 x 8 square shaded and given co-ordinates by keywords (DARI, NOTE, ENSLAVER); lights not entering the shaded square have one or two pairs of consecutive letters encoded, e.g. DE encodes as H because the square in the column headed by D and row headed by E is H."	
3066	26/07/1990	Blandy and Benedictine	Mr Lemon	144	2	"Down lights are jumbles of ruined abbeys; clues are subsidiary indications to unjumbled forms with indications of letter pairs, with the first of each pair contributing to LORD THOMAS CROMWELL and the second being the unchecked letter of the light."	
3067	02/08/1990	Clip On Tee Peg IV	Zander	144	2	"All lights are misprinted once, but are still words."	
3068	09/08/1990	Heart Transplants IV	Duck and Hen	144	2	The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.	
3069	16/08/1990	Prompt Helpful Clue	Corylus	144	2	"Puzzle concerns JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (initial letters of normal clues); title suggests 'LEAD KINDLY LIGHT' (given by MP clues). 7 answers omit one letter each on entry, spelling ST. MARY'S; various lights are thematic."	
3070	23/08/1990	Cheers!	Bufo	143	2	"Answers omit one letter each on entry, spelling 'NAMES THAT SHOULD BE ON EVERY INFANT'S TONGUE'; the previous line of the poem contains the unclued lights HODGSON, GUINNESS, ALLSOPP, BASS."	
3071	30/08/1990	Selection Box	Smokey	196	2	"22 asterisked clues are LL , spelling '... AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY'; 4 unclued lights are definitions of CHARLIE, while the other unclued lights are the other four children in the story: MIKE TEAVEE, AUGUSTUS GLOOP, VIOLET BEAUREGARDE, VERUCA SALT."	
3072	06/09/1990	...Nes	Miguel	144	2	"Clues (in non-canonical order) are LL, spelling 'I NE SAUGH THIS YEER SO MERY A COMPANYE AT O(nes)'; unclued lights are, and have letters latent spelling, CANTERBURY PILGRIMS."	
3073	13/09/1990	Pot and Kettle	Piccadilly	144	2	"Across lights are misprinted; down lights are jumbled (and 11 lose one letter to form another word - these may be arranged to spell ARTEMUS WARD). A central block, read boustrophedon, contains 'IT IS A PITY THAT CHAWCER, WHO HAD GENEYUS, WAS SO UNEDICATED. HE'S THE WUSS SPELLER I KNOW OF' and C.F. BROWNE."
3074	20/09/1990	Some Flowers Transplanted	Casein	144	2	"21 answers contain rivers, each to be replaced by one of the others on entry."
3075	27/09/1990	Magic Semi-Circles Bedecked	Leon	50	10R	"Card puzzle; grid is circular, with the pack (less 7H and 7S) arranged in 5 concentric circles, such that the upper and lower semicircles are magic. Letters are assigned to ranks and DLM clues are given to anagrams of radial and circumferential lights; suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4)."
3076	04/10/1990	Give or Take (5 years?)	Apex	144	2	"Each across answer loses two consecutive letters on entry, spelling 'MARRY ME AND I'LL NEVER LOOK AT ANOTHER HORSE'; down answers gain superfluous letters, spelling GROUCHO MARX CENTENARY. Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell FROM 'A DAY AT THE RACES'."
3077	11/10/1990	The Exed Middle	Law	144	2	"17 answers have their middles excluded (the central four letters, which are arithmetic progressions when A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28, etc.); in the other clues one word has lost its central letter, spelling PLACE OF TRADE THAT SEES MOTHER RIGHT, a clue to MART - MALAPERT is to be written below the grid."
3078	18/10/1990	In the Country	Pabulum	144	2	"'In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king' - so 6 answers have R or K replaced by a definition of MAN containing one I, and all other answers lose all occurrences of I on entry."
3079	25/10/1990	The Listener Crossword IV	Klick	169	2	"12 lights are homonyms of the answers; 5 answers are replaced by two-word homophones, one entered where indicated and the other elsewhere."
3080	01/11/1990	Abhorrent Discomfort	Kea	141	2	"Asterisked clues are MP, spelling TEETH ON EDGE. 10 clues comprise definitions of two words and a subsidiary indication of the light, formed by writing the tooth sandwiched between the two words perpendicular to the remaining parts, e.g. SUCRE NANA is entered with CRENA at right angles to SU and NA. Boundary is crenellated, with 'teeth' spelling MOLENDINAR, CARNASSIAL."
3081	08/11/1990	Guardsmen	Llig	193	2	"Perimeter contains AGAMEMNON, GORGON; CADMUS, DRAGON; HECTOR, LION; MENELAUS, SERPENT - in each case the creature appears on the SHIELD of the hero, and consequently the central 2 x 2 square should contain a drawing of a shield."
3082	15/11/1990	Chir Brun	Mr Lemon	144	2	"Puzzle concerns RICHMAL CROMPTON (real name LAMBURN, born 15/11/1890) and her WILLIAM books; unclued lights are WILLIAM, GINGER, HENRY, DOUGLAS (the OUTLAWS - hence no L, A, W or S appears in the grid). Half the clues contain superfluous book titles with WILLIAM removed."
3083	22/11/1990	Word Ladder	Sol	144	4	All lights except eight are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder.
3084	29/11/1990	Hare and Hounds	Swan	144	2	"Each answer except the last loses one letter on entry, also missing from the next clue. 4 central 6-letter across lights are formed by adding AFGHAN, SALUKI, BEAGLE, BASSET to the answers (using A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc.)."
3085	06/12/1990	A One-Act Tragedy	Amicus	144	2	"10 unclued lights are hounds of Actaeon; the others appear, as anagrams with extra letters, as superfluous words in clues, the extra letters spelling 'HUNTSMAN, REST! THY CHASE IS DONE'."
3086	13/12/1990	Wat's on at St Andrews	Nick Louse	144	1	"Grid is blank; each row or column represents three holes of golf. The answer for each hole is modified according to how the hole was actually played, with letters repeated or omitted for extra or unnecessary approach shots and putts."
3087	20/12/1990	The Labours of Hercules IX The Girdle of Hippolyta	Phi	144	2	"21 clues are normal; the other 23 are given in non-standard order, and for each the two letters forming a 'girdle' surrounding a third are omitted on entry. Omitted letters form 'NEVER DID I HEAR ... SO MUSICAL A DISCORD, SUCH SWEET THUNDER'; 'girdled' letters may be rearranged as HIPPOLYTA, HERCULES, CADMUS."
3088	20/12/1990	At Home with Smokey for Christmas	Smokey	144	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Drop In (IN is omitted on entry); Cocktails (halves of two drinks are mixed, e.g. MEAD + GIMLET becomes MELET + GIMAD; one is indicated subsidiarily, the other is entered); Nuts and Crackers (definitions or lights are anagrammatised); Unexpected Guests (either the definition or the light appears with an extra letter)."
3089	03/01/1991	Squarkode	Klan	65	2	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z  stand for the squares from 4 to 729 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them."	
3090	23/03/1991	Take it From Here	Ricshaw	169	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues omit letters, spelling 'AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE I WAS SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED'."	
3091	30/03/1991	A Shatterday Puzzle	Ascot	143	2	"Across clues are LL, spelling ULYSSES - JAMES JOYCE; 13 down clues have misprinted definitions, with misprints spelling 'FINNEGANS WAKE'."	
3092	06/04/1991	Schedule 5	149	144	2	"32 squares each contain two letters; these spell ADDER, COMMON FROG, PALMATE NEWT, SMOOTH NEWT, SLOW-WORM, GRASS-SNAKE, COMMON TOAD, all protected species of wildlife. The missing member, VIVIPAROUS LIZARD, is to be written beneath the grid."	
3093	13/04/1991	Eccentric	Centigram	192	4	"Each answer has an odd number of letters, and its central letter is entered misplaced; these spell 'GIVE CROWNS AND POUNDS AND GUINEAS BUT NOT YOUR HEART AWAY'."	
3094	20/04/1991	Top Row	Corylus	144	2	"Grid is blank, with no two lights sharing an initial square. Clues are given in numerical order (rather than listing those across first); top row contains PUT THE BARS IN (unclued)."	
3095	27/04/1991	Hexajig	Kea	144	1	"There are two grids comprising equilateral triangles, each formed from the 12 hexominoes, which may be rearranged from one grid to form the other. Clues are given to words running in any of six directions in the grids, and to words formed from the letters on each hexomino."	
3096	04/05/1991	Merry Mazes	Sabre	196	1	"Theme is 'The Rolling English Road' by G.K. CHESTERTON (centre of main diagonal). The four journeys mentioned in the last lines of verses appear appropriately in the grid: BIRMINGHAM, BANNOCKBURN, GLASTONBURY, PARADISE are unclued lights, and leading to their initial letters (using misprints) may be traced BEACHY HEAD, BRIGHTON PIER, GOODWIN SANDS, KENSAL GREEN respectively. 5 answers are misprinted to form SOUSE, WINO, CAROUSER, BARFLY, BLOAT."	
3097	11/05/1991	Missing Link	Apex	178	2	"Some clues are PD, the remainder MP, spelling PROKOFIEV - FAIRY TALE. Unclued lights (including perimeter) are BIRD - FLUTE; DUCK - OBOE; CAT - CLARINET; GRANDFATHER - BASSOON; RIFLE SHOTS - TIMPANI; WOLF - THREE HORNS; ??? - STRING QUARTET (PETER is to be written beneath the grid)."	
3098	18/05/1991	DNB	Aelfre	144	2	"The preamble states 'Characters appearing in SOLUTIONS should always be TRUNCATED', i.e., S is entered as T or D, O as R or T etc. In one square A is entered as I (instead of vice versa) enabling main diagonal to spell ENCIPHERMENT."	
3099	25/05/1991	[Right arrow] 1150 (x 10)	BeRo	144	2	"7-letter lights are the Old English words given in Chambers' as the etymology of the answers; remaining down clues have extra letters in definitions, spelling O.E. ETYMOLOGICAL."	
3100	01/06/1991	What For?	Bufo	165	1	"Across lights, clued by either definitions or subsidiary indications, are 'ORSES, MUTTON, MILES etc.; initial letters of the clues are the appropriate letters. Only alternate letters of down answers are entered."	
3101	08/06/1991	Snark	Fenrix	144	4	"Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling 'AN AGONY IN EIGHT FITS'."	
3102	15/06/1991	Playfair Pairs	Adam	144	2	"Unclued lights are formed from BARCHESTER TOWERS, DOCTOR THORNE, PRECIOUS BANE, RODERICK RANDOM, ROBINSON CRUSOE, REGINALD CRUDEN: one of each pair is entered in anagram form, and also acts as Playfair codeword for the other."	"Towers, Thorne, Bane, Random, Crusoe, Reginald"
3103	22/06/1991	Audiolingual (In memoriam The Listener)	Mass	169	2	In half the clues the definition has been replaced by a homophone; in the remainder the subsidiary indication omits the indication of a homophone.	
3104	29/06/1991	Straight and Narrow	Swan	144	2	"Across answers all have an even number of letters, which are taken in pairs; pairs are entered alternately normally and as single letters obtained by adding the two letters together (using A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc.), e.g. KILFUD-YOKING becomes KIRUDNKIU."	
3105	06/07/1991	Theme 1 Theme 2 - A Celebration with Variations	Zag	144	2	"Puzzle celebrating AZED 1000: variations ADZE, DAZE; ANTE, ACE/ACRE/ARE (central square containing C/R); ZAMBIA, ZENITH; GRAND, CHI; MASCULINE, NOON; KELVIN, KAMPUCHEA. There are 4 types of clue: Anagrams and assorted letters (containing anagram of one-word definition and letter-mixture of light); Zigzag puzzles (both definition and subsidiary indication refer to other lights); Eccentric English (subsidiary indication ignores Es in light); Deleted duplicates (subsidiary indication ignores repeated letters in light). (Unfortunately solution grid was published with the puzzle, rendering it void.)"	
3106	13/07/1991	The Golbyd's Toes	Mr Lemon	144	2	"Theme is 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (given in cryptic form in title) by Barham (eight answers lose HAM on entry); six answers and the corresponding lights form titles of stories in the collection: The BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE, The BROTHERS of BIRCHINGTON, GREY DOLPHIN, MARIE MIGNOT, The SPECTRE of TAPPINGTON, The LADY ROHESIA."	
3107	20/07/1991	Mixed Grill	Hen	195	2	"10-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to a pudding, e.g. 'A zo curry (hot, mind)' leads to MYCORRHIZA (+ DONUT); a one-word definition of each such light has been added to one of the across clues."	
3108	27/07/1991	Hands Off! - III	Jago	121	2	"Grid contains hidden 'HOW THE WORLD WAGS' - quotation begins 'It is ten o'clock', so this time is entered in the hands of an attached watch."	
3109	03/08/1991	Primes - III (Playfair)	Piccadilly	121	2	"Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 12 is used for one row and one column. 4-digit lights are Playfair-coded (with 4 x 4 codesquare containing the 10 digits and the 6 letters)."	45 rpm
3110	10/08/1991	The Labours of Hercules X - The Oxen of Geryon	Phi	144	2	"Geryon had 3 heads and 3 bodies; eight clues lead to triples of 4-letter words, from which one head (the initial letter) and one body (the remainder) are selected to form the light (a word) - the heads spell HERCULES. 3 unclued lights are NEAT, ANGUS, SIMMENTHALER, all entered upwards."	
3111	17/08/1991	Inside Out V	Duck	144	4	"Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear."	
3112	24/08/1991	Sartorial	Hand in Glove	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling THE BELLS FROM 'THE NINE TAILORS' BY DOROTHY L. SAYERS, which are the unclued lights; each answer loses the letter which is the note of the corresponding bell."	
3113	31/08/1991	Enigma Variations - II	Nibor	144	2	"12 clues lack definition; the answers (POSER, QUANDARY, PUZZLE, RIDDLE, TEASER, QUESTION, PROBLEM, DILEMMA, CONUNDRUM, MYSTERY, SECRET, REBUS) are entered encoded by placing the part of the alphabet used (ABCDEILMNOPQRSTUYZ) above the title and replacing each letter by that below it."	Enigma Variations II
3114	07/09/1991	Floyd on China	Meursault	144	2	"Unclued lights are names of pop groups which appear to be misspelt (BEATLES, DEF LEPPARD, IN XS, MONKEES, BYRDS, SALT N PEPA). Half the clues have subsidiary indications giving the lights with extra letters, spelling 'WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION'."	
3115	14/09/1991	Sixes and Sevens - XV	Zander	144	2	Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.	
3116	21/09/1991	King's Children	Waldteufel	144	2	"Clues are musically thematic; twelve contain a letter-mixture of a composer and the name of a misattributed musical composition, whose actual composer is the light. Half of these lights are Playfair-coded, the codephrase being a reciprocal misattribution to the title)."	Waltz by Humperdinck
3117	28/09/1991	Ways of Escape	Buff	144	2	"Unclued lights are STOKE, DESBOROUGH, BURNHAM (the Chilton Hundreds) and NORTHSTEAD, appointment to which are the traditional means by which MPs resign; 6 answers contain MP, replaced by C, TON or N on entry to form other words. Subsidiary indications in other clues involve extra letters, spelling 'WE SHALL HAVE NO MORE PARLIAMENTS' - JONS(on)."	
3118	05/10/1991	Double Crossword	Klick	169	2	29 answers containing a repeated letter have both occurrences replaced by a different repeated letter to form other words.	
3119	12/10/1991	Associations	Lato	144	2	"13 lights, mainly clued solely by misprinted one-word definitions, are associated with pairs of letters which exhaust the alphabet: (A.N.) OTHER, ARSENAL (F.C.), (G.K.) CHESTERTON, (HP) SAUCE, (J.Y.) PROG, WIZARD (of OZ), (Q.E.) TWO, THE IRISH (R.M.), (ST.) LOUIS, (UB) FORTY, (VW) BEETLE, FIRST (XI), TAM (DL)."	
3120	19/10/1991	Across the Downs	Law	169	2	"Twenty 3-letter groups in which the first and third letters are the same and their numerical value,  x,  differs from that of the second,  y,  by at most 2 are represented by symbols for hills, hillocks, areas of level ground, dips and valleys according as  x - y  is -2, -1, 0, 1 or 2. (Final ten clues were not in fact printed, but puzzle could still be solved.)"	
3121	26/10/1991	Visible Means of Support	Llig	121	2	"One answer in each row or column loses a letter each time it occurs, spelling GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA; other lights are anagrams of the answers."	
3122	02/11/1991	Seconds Out	Machiavelli	196	4	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented in second position by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."	
3123	09/11/1991	Clots	Petti	144	2	"Each square contains one, two or three letters."	
3124	16/11/1991	Paintbox	Phobis	54	1R	"Grid is a jumbled Rubik's cube; lights are entered across, down or diagonally, and information is given on the number of different colours (clued) on their squares. When unjumbled the cube reads 'WITH WHAT ARE YOUR COLOURS MIXED, OPIE?' 'SIR, I MIX THEM WITH MY BRAINS'."	
3125	23/11/1991	The Morning Post	Ploutos	144	4	"Letters are assigned to three groups: Out, In and Pending. In each answer, Out letters are omitted, while In letters are moved ahead of Pending letters, with order within these two groups being unchanged."	
3126	30/11/1991	"Russian Revolution, or ... Degrees of Freedom"	Dimitry	144	2	"18 answers are either rotated bodily about a horizontal or vertical axis, or translated into Russian."	
3127	07/12/1991	Decacycles	Sabre	144	1	"Each row (unbarred) contains a 10-letter word and two other letters, entered cyclically; each column contains a 5- and a 7-letter light, the latter being jumbled."	
3128	14/12/1991	Bocx and Ox	Fenrix	144	2	"Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling MISDIRECTED LETTERS."	
3129	21/12/1991	Treasure Hunt	Duck	169	2	"Each row or column has a letter-pair associated with it, giving co-ordinates. 14 squares are to be left blank when entering lights; taking co-ordinate pairs of 13 of them gives GO TO THE CITY THAT ABRAHAM LEFT; the 14th (with co-ordinate pair UR) therefore has X entered."	
3130	28/12/1991	Treasure Hunt	Hell?re	169	2	"Grid is blank and represents a map; clues are MP, spelling ORDNANCE SURVEY LANDRANGER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT. Unclued lights across are RAILWAY LINE, CANVEY, THAMES (correctly located); 5 clues lacking definitions lead to RAYLEIGH, ROCHFORN, SOUTHEND, HADLEIGH, SOUTHEND, to be found (correctly located) jumbled in 3 x 3 blocks, whose ninth letters, taken between the two unclued down lights, form GOLD WRISTLETS."	
3131	04/01/1992	Spanish fly	Ricshaw	169	2	"Each answer contains an E, to be replaced by another letter (sometimes also an E), spelling 'THE PENINSULAR PLATEAU OF SPAIN FORMING A HEAD'. 8 lights are modified by MADRID (MAD-APPLE becomes APPLE, MISMADE becomes MISE, REMADE becomes REE), LEON (MURES becomes LEMURES, AGUE becomes LEAGUE, EAR becomes LEEAR), LUGO (SALUTE becomes SATE, LUPINES becomes PINES)."	
3132	11/01/1992	Away	Corylus	169	2	"EDINBURGH, DOVER, PORTSMOUTH, BRISTOL, HOLYHEAD and CARLISLE are traced in numbered squares (including four which are isolated) following the approximate paths of the appropriate A roads."	
3133	18/01/1992	"Appropriate Lesson (4,7)"	Kea	144	4	"24 clues are MP, spelling unchecked letters in perimeter quotation 'CHIEFLY THE MOULD OF A MAN'S FORTUNE IS IN HIS OWN HANDS'; others have Playfair-coded lights. Solution to title is PALM READING, to be written beneath the grid."	Dermatoglyphics
3134	25/01/1992	Seeds	Mr. Lemon	196	2	"Grid is blank; unclued lights PERPENDICULAR, FACTORIAL, EQUALS, UNIVERSAL SET, THERE EXISTS, GAMMADION are to be highlighted as bar patterns. (Title is 'see D.S.')"	
3135	01/02/1992	Called To The Bar	Salamanca	144	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Doubles (light is an anagram of the answer doubled, e.g. GRAIN leads to ARRAIGNING); Cocktails (light has a drink inserted); Shorts (LL, spelling MOONSHINE); Halves (light is half the answer, both halves being words)."	
3136	08/02/1992	Irairan	Essem	225	2	"25 of the across answers lose *AND on entry, with a different first letter each time, e.g. JACKA(DAND)Y, N(EAND)ERTHAL; the remaining letter (Q) is given by the title."	
3137	15/02/1992	Web	Hen	184	1	"Grid is circular, representing a spider's web; radial lights are entered jumbled. 8 squares contain flies, surrounded by their 8-letter names; central circle reads INCY WINCY - ON TOP OF THE SPOUT."	
3138	22/02/1992	Playflare	Apex	100	2	"Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using four different codewords, two for across lights and two for down; in the grid EDNA MILLAY is to be shaded."	"My candle, burns at, both ends, but oh my friends"
3139	29/02/1992	The Labours of Hercules XI - The Golden Apples of the Hesperides	Phi	140	2	"9 answers are associated with British or Irish placenames, which are jumbled to form the lights; RUSSET, CRAB and COX may then be found in the grid."	
3140	07/03/1992	Tied Test	Phil Brindall	144	1	"Grid represents the scorecard from the 1960 Brisbane test; each light represents an innings, with letters advanced to show the score made, e.g. PARCHING, 24 leads to PATEISWG (0 + 0 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 10 + 9 + 0 = 24). If an X appears in the answer, the increases before and after are multiplied, e.g. TEXAS, 65 leads to YTXES (5 + 15 x 4 + 0 = 65)."	
3141	14/03/1992	In Memoriam	Piccadilly	144	2	Perimeter lights are normal; remainder are jumbled. Shaded portion of grid reads 'I SEE NO REASON WHY THE EXISTENCE OF HARRIET MARTINEAU SHOULD BE PERPETUATED'.	
3142	21/03/1992	Sonnets from the poet: You guess - II	Calmac	144	4	"Two sonnets are given, each containing definitions of the lights in one direction (in order) and letter-mixtures of those in the other direction (in random order)."	
3143	28/03/1992	Capital	Ascot	169	2	"Theme-words LACE (THRASH, SPIKE); GRIFFON (PONY, NOVICE); SPROUTS (ODDS, DRUBBINGS); CARPET (SHARK, BEETLE) - all linked to BRUSSELS."	
3144	04/04/1992	Pillars of State	Mass	156	2	"Half the answers lose L or R on entry; remaining clues must have L or R restored; the choice of L or R is determined by the side of the grid in which the light is entered. Leftmost, central and rightmost columns (unclued) and LABOUR OF LOVE, THE GO-BETWEEN and CONSERVATORY respectively."	
3145	11/04/1992	Election 92	Adam	144	4	"Parties are LABOUR, LIB-DEM and TORIES; all lights are formed from these letters. Certain 'seats' are gained by one party from another by substitution of letters, e.g. ETRIER (TORIES) becomes ULBOUB (LABOUR), BLURB (LABOUR) becomes BLEMB (LIB-DEM)."	
3146	18/04/1992	My Word	BeRo	144	2	"6-letter lights have DLM clues, with the letter-mixtures involving extra letters which may be rearranged to form NONE, TWO, THREE or FOUR, according to the number of letters in common between the light and a word to be determined (EASTER)."	
3147	25/04/1992	A Six Decker for the Admiralty?	Mr Lemon	122	2	"Vertical edges of grid are crenellated; longer rows contain types of bread, and shorter rows fillings (all clued without definitions, in random order in the latter case). Down lights are jumbled; in their clues half have an extra letter in the definition while the other subsidiary indications lead to the answer with an extra letter, spelling FOURTH EARL OF SANDWICH."	
3148	02/05/1992	Higher Powers	Leon	25	1	Numerical puzzle concerning congruences of powers modulo primes.	
3149	09/05/1992	End of the Line	Le Gallois	144	2	Down answers are entered with letters advanced in the alphabet by the length of the light.	
3150	16/05/1992	Players	Law	225	4	"Some answers are entered misprinted, with the correct letters spelling 'MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL'; remaining clues are MP, spelling 'THE TILTYARD SKILL, THE STRATEGY OF CHESS'. THOMAS A BECKET (traced by bishop's moves) starts and finishes in the centre of the grid, while REGINALD FITZURSE, HUGH DE MORVILLE, WILLIAM DE TRACI and RICHARD BRITO (traced by knight's moves) start at the corners and finish one move from the centre."	
3151	23/05/1992	The MENS Game	149	144	2	"Unclued lights are ATOKS, ELTON, MOTOR, STOWN (i.e. A-K as S, E for L-N, M for O-R, S-W as N), giving the method of replacing letters in the central 6 x 6 square, e.g. (SEA)GULLS becomes SEASNEEN. This square contains 9 of each letter; the winner is the player (M) forming an unbroken line from one edge to another."	
3152	30/05/1992	Avoid Extremes	Llig	169	2	"Unclued lights are CHILO, SOLON, THALES, PERIANDER (and the others of the Seven Sages, BIAS, CLEOBULOS and PITTACOS, are to be written beneath the grid). Perimeter reads 'MOST MEN ARE BAD', 'THE GOLDEN MEAN', 'SEIZE TIME BY THE FORELOCK'."	
3153	06/06/1992	[alpha]-numerix	Zag	143	2	"Central portion of the grid contains a numerical puzzle, linked to the outer portion by FREIGHTER becoming FR8ER, NETWORK becoming NE2RK, GUANINE becoming GUA9, FOURGON becoming 4GON."
3154	13/06/1992	Nineteen to the Dozen	Hen & Duck	180	2	"Ten 19-letter clues consist of a letter-mixture of a 12-letter light and a 7-letter word appearing in a DLM clue, e.g. 'Prophet has raved a lot' leads to SHARP-TOOTHED (+ PALAVER); all 20 of these words concern talking."
3155	20/06/1992	No Holds Barred	Dimitry	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are given in five groups, according to the 'ring' containing the light's initial letter, in clockwise or anti-clockwise order around each ring, starting anywhere. Correctly oriented, the bar-pattern contains 3155 read diagonally downwards."
3156	27/06/1992	It's (Nearly) All Greek To Me	Ploutos	144	2	12 lights are Greek words entered in capitals.
3157	04/07/1992	Tard	Phi	169	2	"Main diagonal is TARS AND TRIPES; answers or words in clues lose an initial S. Unclued lights are LASCAR, PIRATE, BOSUN (S)AILOR and HONEYCOMB, PAUNCH, RETICULUM, RUMEN (title is (S)T-and-ARD)."
3158	11/07/1992	Misprints	Centigram	169	2	"Lights are misprinted, with correct letters spelling 'FROM WRONG TO WRONG THE EXASPERATED SPIRIT PROCEEDS' by T.S. ELIOT (unclued)."
3159	18/07/1992	Eightsome Really	Owzat	177	1	"Unclued lights in the grid are BACH, VERDI, MARTIN, DRIGO; those around the outside are OFFENBACH, MONTEVERDI, MARTINU, RODRIGO - the extra letters may be arranged as FOUR MEN OF NOTE."
3160	25/07/1992	Our 1st XI	Ozzie	169	2	"Grid is blank; clues are given to words or letters in each row or column, but bars may be inserted differently. The numbers 1, 2, ..., 11 appear in order in the grid, barred off, e.g. LA, WEIGH, TAT, DEE, PENNINE becomes L A W|8|A|T|D E E P E N|9."
3161	01/08/1992	Taken Short	Swan	144	2	"Clues with no light lengths given lead to answers containing words to be entered as abbreviations, e.g. GRAMARY becomes GARY, GELATINE becomes GELE."
3162	08/08/1992	Score-card	Apex	144	4	"Each row or column has a double LL clue; the first omission is a method of dismissal (B, C, HW, LB, NO, RO or ST), while the second gives the score made. A full score-card is to be completed; the match ended in a tie."
3163	15/08/1992	Whodunnit 2: The Six Red Herrings	Mime	144	2	"6 PD clues lead to WOK, SPUNK, THECA, BUSK, SCUT, MERL, the encoded forms of 6 weapons AXE, KNIFE, SWORD, PIKE, KRIS, BOLT; thus PISTOL is encoded as BUTLER (the guilty party)."
3164	22/08/1992	Apparition	Kea	144	2	"Asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights; others are MP, spelling 'IS THIS A DAGGER WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME?'; unclued lights are OBELUS, CREASE, KIRPAN, ANLACE, and the As in the grid form a dagger."
3165	29/08/1992	On the Team	Salamanca	144	2	"There are 5 types of light entry: halfbacks (half entered in reverse), fullbacks (reversed), wingers (with centre removed, leaving a word), centre-forwards (with central letter moved to the front), and goalkeepers (entered with a synonym of GOAL included or removed)."
3166	05/09/1992	Insignia	Bufo	195	2	"Each answer loses a letter on entry, spelling 'HE WENT AT THEM BALDHEADED' (across) and 'TRUE COURAGE AND GOOD MANNERS' (down), referring to the MARQUIS OF GRANBY (top row) at the BATTLE OF WARBURG (bottom row)."
3167	12/09/1992	Justyn Print - IX	Zander	196	2	"Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'A Ride On The Stage' leads to EUNICE + ICLE."
3168	19/09/1992	Verboliteralgebraist	Mass	196	2	"26 answers have a letter (different in each case) replaced by a word to form a longer word, the replacement being defined by a redundant expression in the clue; other clues are MP, with correct letters forming a rearrangement of the title."
3169	26/09/1992	Pythagorean Cubes	Adam	81	1	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to  x? + y? = z?.	
3170	03/10/1992	Olla Podrida II	Klick	169	2	"Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. BROKEN TERRAIN leads to TRAINER."	
3171	10/10/1992	Rogues	Fenrix	144	4	"Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling 'THE PURLOINED LETTER'."	
3172	17/10/1992	Funny	Sabre	144	4	"There are four blank 6 x 6 grids, with half the clues DLM and answers to down clues jumbled. In each grid, 2 unclued down lights and 2 unclued across lights are water-craft."	
3173	24/10/1992	Literals	Machiavelli	196	2	Across answers are entered misprinted (as other words); both misprints and correct letters exhaust the alphabet.	
3174	31/10/1992	Artemus Ward	Piccadilly	140	2	Half the clues are DLM and have jumbled lights; remaining lights are misprinted. Whole grid reads 'YURE A GOOD FELLER ALBERT EDARD & THO I'M AGIN PRINCES AS A GINERAL THING I MUST SAY I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR GIB. WHEN YOU GIT TO BE KING TRY AND BE AS GOOD A MAN AS YURE MOTHER HAS BIN'.	
3175	07/11/1992	Pieces of Eight III	Smokey	169	2	"The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. VERT-ICES; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere."	
3176	14/11/1992	Prayer Wheel	Arepo	121	2	"Clues (to lights outside the central five rows and columns) contain superfluous words defining unclued lights (in the central five rows and columns, at the heart of which is the SATOR word-square) and PATERNOSTER (three times)."	
3177	21/11/1992	Windows	Duck	144	4	"Grid is divided into sixteen 3 x 3 squares containing jumbled 9-letter words with isolated central squares, spelling 'SQUARES OF HIS MIND'. 6-letter lights are entered in two halves along edges."	
3178	28/11/1992	Twelve Dots on the Map	Corylus	217	1	Grid represents a map of Great Britain; half the rows contain two words run together. 12 towns (correctly located) are to be replaced by dots.	
3179	05/12/1992	Crossmot	Mr Lemon	50	4	"There are two 5 x 5 grids: the first contains a magic square, whose entries give the positions of those in the second, which are all 3-letter words, forming 6- and 9-letter lights."	
3180	12/12/1992	Enquire Within	Law	180	2	"6 italicised clues have Playfair-coded lights; tracing a QUESTION-MARK in the grid spells CHAPTER 2 VERSE 22 (which verse of Mark's gospel concerns the necessity of placing new wine in new wine-skins). Unclued lights are formed by rearranging the answers to italicised clues and inserting jumbles of wines, e.g. ERAS (+ PORT) becomes RA-PTOR-ES. Across lights are misprinted, spelling ANGER RARELY CAUSES ONE SUCH, leading to GREN (+ WINE) becoming RENEWING, to be written beneath the grid."	Question-mark
3181	19/12/1992	The Lost Chord - II	Llig	169	2	"'Chords' are  AEH, BFI, CGJ, ..., ZDG. 13 answers each contain a different one (not necessarily consecutively), to be transposed to one of the other 13 on entry."	
3182	26/12/1992	Round 'O'	Ilex	204	12R	"Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights; various circles contain 'YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA' BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN; CLARINET, BASSDRUM, TROMBONE; HENRY PURCELL."	
3183	02/01/1993	Our Bridge Four	Ozzie	182	2	"Clues are thematic; those for perimeter rows and columns are double, leading to two words to be entered as three, with the central one the appropriate compass point, e.g. RISEN, ORTHICON become RISE, NORTH, ICON."	
3184	09/01/1993	The Labours of Hercules XII - Cerberus	Phi	180	2	"Central row is THE RIVER STYX; 16 lights, paired above and below this, transfer HE, RC, UL, ES downwards and CE, RB, ER, US upwards. Remaining clues are symmetrically paired where possible; the rest are MP, spelling NOB, NUT, BEAN. 3 answers in each direction lose S, O, P on entry."	
3185	16/01/1993	Grand Slam	Phil Brindall	169	1	"Grid is blank, with bridge hands around the sides. Each card has a light, entered inwards, clued in order of play (with thematic clues); discards lose a letter on entry, while winning cards have a letter doubled."	
3186	23/01/1993	Encore	Aelfre	120	4R	"Grid comprises squares surrounded by irregular hexagons; each light is 5-letter, with one letter entered in a square and the remaining 4-letter word entered in the hexagons around it. Two perimeter rows, followed by squares, spell 'YET EACH A PART AND NONE THE WHOLE, BUT ALL TOGETHER FORM ONE'."	
3187	30/01/1993	Treble Magic Square Wildly Bedecked	Leon	54	4R	"Card puzzle; the pack plus two jokers is dealt into three magic squares, one 6 x 6 and the other two 3 x 3. Each rank corresponds to a letter and DLM clues lead to anagrams of rows, columns and diagonals; suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4)."	
3188	06/02/1993	"1 Across (or the 19 Across of a 43 Across) [QWERTYUIOP, Top Row, Typewriter]"	31 Across [Peeper]	144	2	"All letters in the grid are chosen from QWERTYUIOP; down lights are misprinted to ensure this. Across clues are MP, spelling 'THE LADY IS A MUSICIAN'."	
3189	13/02/1993	"O, No Phrase'll Draw Me"	Dimitry	144	2	"Clues contain fragments from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; in four rows and four columns it functions normally, while in the rest the definition is a word missing from it. The four intersections of the distinguished rows and columns on the main diagonal contain the letters S, A, I, O - four other squares containing these letters form the corners of a rectangle (with sides at 45? to the horizontal) containing 'I HATE QUOTATIONS' (by RALPH WALDO EMERSON, anagram of title)."	
3190	20/02/1993	Moving	Ploutos	144	2	"10 lights are misprinted; original letters spell MOTHERWELL, new letters LAUNCESTON."	
3191	27/02/1993	Run Off in Triplicate	Adam	144	4	"Each answer contains an R, misprinted to spell 'FESTINA LENTE', 'EILE MIT WEILE', 'HASTEN SLOWLY'."	
3192	06/03/1993	Men Overboard!	Swan	144	2	"Central 8 x 8 square is a chessboard at the beginning of a game; letters representing pieces (R, N, B, Q, K, P) are added to those of down answers to form the lights, as are IVANCHUK and KASPAROV above and below the board."	
3193	13/03/1993	Timetable	Hellphire	169	1	"Grid is blank, and represents a railway timetable, with each row a station and each down clue a journey (possibly with a connection); several squares are left blank."	
3194	20/03/1993	Prayfail	Enigmatist	168	4	"4 Playfair codewords appear in the perimeter rows and columns. Clues to symmetrically opposite lights are paired, with encoded forms of some given; lights in central row and column are Playfair-coded using a fifth codeword."	"Powdering-tubs, Consumptively, Pneumogastric, Salpingetomy, Ambidextrous"
3195	27/03/1993	"In Out, In Out"	Foxglove	225	1	Narrative concerning the Boat Race; certain answers lose IN on entry.	
3196	03/04/1993	Which Way?	Bufo	144	1	"Grid is blank; lights begin in any of four directions from given starting squares, and turn left or right at an L or R."	
3197	10/04/1993	Division	Ascot	154	2	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues (one of which is normal and the other DLM). 14 other clues lead to 7-letter words, entered jumbled in the central 7 squares of the appropriate column; central row is MASON-DIXON LINE."	
3198	17/04/1993	Alibi	Fenrix	225	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light."	
3199	24/04/1993	Alphanumerics	Piccadilly	121	2	"Numerical puzzle; the distinct letters of the title represent the numbers from 0 to 11, and clues are in terms of them. One row and one column correspond to each base between 2 and 12, while 4-digit lights are entered Playfair-coded."	23 May 1906 Ibsen
3200	01/05/1993	Cats	BeRo	144	2	"Four unclued lights are boroughs disenfranchised in the Reform Acts (= title); their locations appear as superfluous words in four clues, whose answers are entered as anagrams which can be followed by -BOROUGH as placenames. Main diagonal is ROTTEN/REFORM."	
3201	08/05/1993	Errantful Duo	Miguel	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares, formed as two 4-letter words written in opposite directions and sharing a common definition."	
3202	15/05/1993	Whodunnit 3: Locked Room Mystery	Mime	184	2	"Perimeter lights are LOCKED DOOR, D0-BOLTED-OR, WATCHORIEL, GRID DORMER. 7 suspects are pairs of definitions leading to two words of which one (the light) is the other less a letter, e.g. 'Barney Shift' leads to ALTER(C)ATION. A diagonal contains DOCTOR FELL surrounded by HM (Sir Henry Merrivale)."	
3203	22/05/1993	Saturdae +	149	122	1R	Down lights are jumbled with DLM clues which contain extra letters spelling KNICKERBOCKER GLORY; across lights are items in a sundae.	
3204	29/05/1993	Horizontal Bars	Corylus	169	2	"Each column has a single, double or triple clue leading to the light(s) therein; each row (unbarred) has a double clue whose two answers are to be separated by BAR, PUB or INN."	
3205	05/06/1993	Rules of Arithmetic	Sabre	182	2	"Five answers are entered with the name of the grid number added, e.g. JABOT + THREE = DITTY; five are entered with the grid number subtracted from each letter, e.g. ABJURER - 13 = NOWHERE; five contain an X and the portions before and after it are multiplied in base 26, e.g. TO X IC = GENS; five are plural nouns, entered in the singular, e.g. DJINN becomes GENIE."	
3206	12/06/1993	Playsquares Mystery	Apex	120	2	"Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using four different codephrases, two for across lights and two for down; DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS appears in the grid (including four isolated squares)."	"Busman's Honeymoon, Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Views the Body, Whose Body?"
3207	19/06/1993	28 Across [Deforestation]	Machiavelli	169	2	Each down answer loses a tree on entry.	
3208	26/06/1993	The Broken Jug	Plausus	155	1	"Grid is blank, representing a prison block; certain answers lose CON, LAG or POW on entry, and have a letter straying outside the grid, spelling JELLY, FUSE, CAK-FILE-E. Unclued lights SWAY and YAWS lead to STRANGEWAYS as the name of the prison."	
3209	03/07/1993	Prize Competition	Smokey	144	2	"Across answers lose a letter on entry, spelling TOUR DE FRANCE; top and bottom rows contain MAILLOT JAUNE and YELLOW JERSEY. Unclued lights are French placenames."	
3210	10/07/1993	Brackets	Noggs	144	2	"Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' 1988; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication."	
3211	17/07/1993	Dribs and Drabs	Pabulum	156	1	"Across clues lack definitions, and lead to reversals of BIRDS or BARDS; 3- and 4-letter down lights have clues leading to longer words containing them."	
3212	24/07/1993	Personality Pairs	Lato	169	2	"Unclued lights are names of personalities, with symmetrically opposite lights being mutual anagrams."	
3213	31/07/1993	1 Across [Hexadecimal]	Mog	120	4R	"Answers to asterisked clues are entered in HEXADECIMAL, and unclued lights are perfect squares."	
3214	07/08/1993	"1 is for 4 of 6 (3, 3-6) [S, Salt, Sorrel, for, Ink-stains]"	Mass	144	2	"23 clues are MP, spelling S, SALT, SORREL (FOR INK-STAINS). Answers to remaining clues contain a jumble of INK, to be replaced by S on entry."	
3215	14/08/1993	Ringing the Changes	Llig	169	2	"In five answers AU is replaced by O on entry; ten lose a letter on entry, spelling BRUNNHILDE; in six FAFNER becomes DRAGON and in six others DRAGON becomes NOTUNG; in five a god is reversed."	
3216	21/08/1993	Not Quite Tied Test	Phil Brindall	144	1	"Grid represents the scorecard from the 1963 Lord's test; each light represents an innings, with letters advanced to show the score made, e.g. DRACONIC, 44 leads to DRLSONIT (0 + 0 + 11 + 16 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 17 = 44). Advances in the central 6 x 6 square are squared."	
3217	28/08/1993	Spring Symphony	Bandmaster	169	1	"4 Playfair-coded lights are FU-SALT-ND, C-AB-ARTON, A-SPRAT-RK, CA-JOHN-SE; clues (italicised) are anagrams of coded and uncoded versions. 5 answers lose TELLY, VISION, TV, BOX, TUBE on entry; central row is CRACKERJANORY with the J square isolated."	Jack-in-the-box
3218	04/09/1993	Pairing Off	Duck	144	2	"Six clues contain PA or MA; all other clues contain superfluous pairs of letters, spelling RIDICULE, MEDICINE, PRESIDENTS, BELIEVERS, CITIES, HISTORY, whose 'fathers' or 'mothers' are the unclued lights RABELAIS, HIPPOCRATES, VIRGINIA, AYESHA, BALKH, HERODOTUS."	
3219	11/09/1993	Quite Contrary	Adam	144	2	"12 answers are fictonal characters with first name MARY, entered as anagrams."	
3220	18/09/1993	A Supplementary Problem	Mr Lemon	144	4	Each letter of each answer is advanced in the alphabet by the grid number.	
3221	25/09/1993	Raving?	Phi	156	2	"8 clues are double, leading to two words with a stone sandwiched between them, e.g. BI-G EM-ONG; on entry the stone is replaced by ST (in a single square), the 8 forming a ring around AVEBURY VILLAGE (unclued). In remaining clues subsidiary indications lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling 'GREATER THAN STONEHENGE' - AUBREY."	
3222	02/10/1993	Child's Play (for adults only)	Ozzie	165	1	"Theme-words HIDE (LEATHER, INTEGUMENT) and SEEK (DECODER, INVESTIGATOR) are hidden in the grid; HAYDN SIKH appear in additional squares, and HEIDSIECK (CHARLES, PIPER; MUMM, THE WIDOW) are unclued."	
3223	09/10/1993	Almanac	Piccadilly	144	2	"Each block of three rows or columns represents a month from April to November, with the checked squares representing the days. Clues are DLM, dated according to one of the squares covered, and concern relevant anniversaries. Clashes in certain squares are resolved so as to make APR, MAY etc. appear in appropriate positions."	
3224	16/10/1993	Fours	Law	144	4	"Clues are in sets of four, corresponding to symmetrically positioned lights, which are obtained from the answers by placing the codephrase above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing any letter in the second row by that above it. One light in each set must also have II, JJ, KK or IJK replaced by -1; initial and final letters of these clues spell QUATERNION and W.R. HAMILTON respectively (the discovery of the former by the latter occurring on 16/10/1843); other clues in the set are cyclically permuted."	A joyful knight
3225	23/10/1993	a + b = c	Swan	169	2	"In squares in even-numbered rows and columns, letters in across and down lights are added to spell A REGULAR GRID HAS THESE SQUARES BLACKED IN."	
3226	30/10/1993	[Sigma] 2^{n-1}	Bufo	121	1	"Each answer is entered as the sum of the values of its letters, using A = 1, B = 2, C = 4, D = 8, E = 16, ..., Z = 33554432; perimeter contains 'POWERS THAT WILL WORK FOR THEE'."	
3227	06/11/1993	Twelve in One	Highlander	144	2	"8 unclued lights are linked to CROSS: DISAGREEABLE, CANTANKEROUS, ANGERED, ROILED, ANSATE, MALTESE, CELTIC, MOLINE (the last six being jumbled); diagonals spell LORRAINE, ANKH and SALTIRE, LATIN."	
3228	13/11/1993	Magnum Opus: The Name of the Rose	Salamanca	185	1	"Grid represents 'the Aedificium', with eight sections; in each, an unclued rose name affects certain answers: ALAIN (insert ALA), CASTEL (remove EL), NIL BLEU (remove BLEU), ARTISTE (replace ART by TE), PEON (answer has extra PE), SALET (remove SA), ANNA FORD (answer has ANNA for D), NORITA (remove RITA). Some lights are misprinted, with correct letters spelling 'A CIRCULATING LIBRARY ...'; perimeter of a square contains '... AN EVERGREEN TREE OF DIABOLICAL KNOWLEDGE'."	
3229	20/11/1993	MORE	Columba	221	2	Answers are entered with an extra M or E. Central column contains 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS'; perimeter contains 'A THEATRE PIECE TO ENGAGE ESTEEM FOR A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS THOMAS MORE'.	
3230	27/11/1993	Jaywalking	Ploutos	125	4R	"Grid consists of 25 squares, each divided into a diamond and four triangles. Twenty-five 5-letter answers are entered with one letter in the diamond and the others (forming a 4-letter word) in the triangles surrounding it; the letters in the diamonds exhaust the alphabet apart from J. Other clues are multiple DLM, leading to words formed by combinations of the letters in the triangles."	
3231	04/12/1993	Spot the Ball	Hellphire	135	2	"Balls (Os) in lights are ignored in subsidiary indications; other lights have subsidiary indications which treat the answer in one of four ways: Centre forward (move central one or two letters to front), Half back (first or second half reversed), Full back (reversed), Wings (remove central one or two letters). Unclued lights are SIDDONS, ASTAIRE, NIVEN, MILLS, CHAPLIN, STEIGER; lines connecting their Is approximately focus on the ball to be spotted."	
3232	11/12/1993	Sixes and Sevens	Obiter	169	2	"Twenty rows and columns each contain a 6- and a 7-letter word, entered cyclically. Intersections of remaining rows and columns, forming an arrangement of GRATICULE, taken with four neighbouring squares in each case, contain 5-letter words."	
3233	18/12/1993	Odd One Out	BeRo	144	2	"4- and 5-letter lights contain only letters from A to I; setting A = 1, B = 2, ..., I = 9 they all give primes, except FACIA = 61391 = 11.5581. Taking the pth letter of the clue with number p, for p = 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, gives ERATOSTHENES."	
3234	01/01/1994	New Year's Resolution	Dimitry	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words; answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them, with N replacing O consistently; unclued lights are 'RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW'. 'Hunting' in grid reveals BETTER ANSWERS JUMBLED IN CLUE; this directs solvers to the first 're-solution', with each light being a letter-mixture within the clue involving exactly one letter of the superfluous word. This time unclued lights are FASHION JIGSAW FROM DISCARDS, directing solvers to the second 're-solution', in which the superfluous words must be arranged to fit where possible, leaving unclued lights DIMITRY WISHES EVERY SOLVER A HAPPY NEW YEAR."	
3235	08/01/1994	Unplaced	Mr Lemon	144	2	"7-letter answers across (one in each row) have the shape 1234565 and are entered as 5653421 (i.e., as NOWHERE becomes EREWHON, to be written beneath the grid); SAMUEL BUTLER is unclued."	
3236	15/01/1994	Doppelgangers	Machiavelli	225	4	"25 lights have clues whose subsidiary indications split the word in two and insert a double letter (different each time) to produce two words, e.g. TAN(G G)IST, RUB(Y Y)ES."	
3237	22/01/1994	Set Squares	Bart	80	2	Numerical puzzle concerning right-angled triangles with integral sides and one angle within 1? of either 30? or 45?.	
3238	29/01/1994	An Additional Bonus	Apex	236	1	"Clues contain superfluous words; unclued lights, transferred to second grid, read THIRTY + TWENTY + TEN + SEVEN + THREE = SEVENTY. Perimeter and central row contain SUBSTITUTE DIFFERENT NUMBERS FOR LETTERS TO GET A CORRECT SOLUTION (it is 864583 + 827083 + 870 + 17970 + 86577 = 1797083)."	
3239	05/02/1994	Centenary Pairs	Owzat	169	2	"ERIC HONEYWOOD PARTRIDGE (b. 06/02/1894, found in grid symmetrically opposite FINE SUGARBOWL FRANCOLIN) wrote 'Dictionary of SLANG and Unconventional English' (SHINGLE is central unclued light). Initial letters of superfluous words in across clues spell A PYRUS COMMUNIS TREE (referring to 'a partridge in a pear tree')."	
3240	12/02/1994	Squaring the Circle	Amicus	144	2	"Puzzle is based on opening chorus to 'Henry V': lights in central four rows and columns are jumbled, giving 'PARDON, GENTLES ALL' in central 4 x 4 square; four perimeter lights are encoded by 'AND LET US CIPHERS TO THIS GREAT ACCOMPT' (i.e., A becomes TH, N becomes IS, etc.); LANA, BALSA, RATA, SAL form a 'WOODEN O' around the central block, to be indicated by a circle passing through its four corners."	
3241	19/02/1994	Protea	Aelfre	143	2	"Central column contains WAS IT A CAT I SAW?; certain answers lose consecutive letters CHE, HES, ESH, SHI, HIR, IRE, REC, ECA, CAT (to form other words), while final down light (unclued) is GRIN."	
3242	26/02/1994	Bibble-Babble	Sabre	144	2	Answers are encoded by writing the alphabet above the codephrase and replacing each letter by that below it.	Murmuring of innumerable bees
3243	05/03/1994	Wrong Number	Ix	144	4	One word of each clue defines the light at that location; the remainder is a normal clue to a light elsewhere.	
3244	12/03/1994	Menu	Duck	169	2	"Across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SOUP, FISH, FRUIT SALAD, COFFEE; the three courses dictate the method of entry of the down answers (jumbled, with initial F as H, with jumbles of fruits missing). Reading clockwise along the diamond joining midpoints of edges gives 'SOME ARE FOND OF SPANISH WINES'."	
3245	19/03/1994	Black Box	Arcturus	169	2	"Clues are LL, spelling 'ALL SCIENCE IS EITHER PHYSICS OR STAMP COLLECTING'. Alternate rows and columns have letters at each end, marking potential starting and finishing points of rays whose paths through the grid are deflected by 9 atoms to be discovered; unclued lights OBSCURE and WHAMPLE provide 7 start-finish pairs O-W, B-H, ..., E-E. The 9 atoms (two in isolated squares) spell NIELS BOHR."	
3246	26/03/1994	Choc Assortment	Smokey	196	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Nut Cluster (part of the answer entered jumbled to form a word meaning HEAD), Soft Centres (letter P moves to the centre), Whirls (light is an anagram of the answer), Misshapes (definitions misprinted)."	
3247	02/04/1994	Finished	Franc	169	2	"Unclued lights are DESCENT, CRUCIFIXION, CONDEMNATION, NAILING, STRIPPING, RECEPTION, six of the STATIONS OF THE CROSS (central isolated square contains X, surrounded by STATIONS). Clues (in random order) are MP, spelling FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FALLS, WIPING, HELPING, MEETINGS, BURIAL."	
3248	09/04/1994	Grand National	Phil Brindall	81	1	"Lights represent the 30 jumps of the Grand National, with each containing letters which have been advanced in the alphabet a total number of places equal to the number of the jump, e.g. at Jump 15, HITCH leads to PITDN (8 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 6 = 15)."	
3249	16/04/1994	Call the Bet	Essem	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell DEF. IN C. OF A PHRASE DEDUCED FROM TITLE MAY HELP; the phrase is BELL THE CAT, and unclued lights consist of CATs with BELLs inserted after the initial letter: P-BELL-UMA, T-ACTON-OM, P-RING-USS, G-ELLIS-IB, F-PEAL-ELIS, L-GONG-ION, M-CURRER-OG, C-CLANG-AT."	
3250	23/04/1994	The Missing Colour	Corylus	165	2	"14 clues are MP, spelling ST. GEORGE'S CROSS; remaining clues omit one letter of the light in the subsidiary indication, the squares concerned lie in the central row and column, which are to be coloured red rather than filled (the remaining six colours of the rainbow appear as lights)."	
3251	30/04/1994	Triangular Squares	Adam	66	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues consist of triples of numbers representing half-lengths of the sides of a triangle, such that the sum of any two sides less the third, or the sum of all three, is a perfect square."	
3252	07/05/1994	Hits	Mordred	144	2	"MONOPOLY, NAP, BRIDGE, BATTLESHIP, PONTOON are clued without definition. 8 other lights may be rearranged (in each case except one) into a letter and a number, e.g. EBON leads to BONE = B1; the letters obtained in this way after labelling rows A to L and columns 1 to 12 may be rearranged to form SCRABBLE."	
3253	14/05/1994	"(17, 1, 18) [Boz]"	"(23, 5, 7, 9) [Qadi]"	144	2	"Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number from 1 to 26, in the order OLNHARDTIMESUYVPBZKGWCQXFJ. Lights in each row or column are clued together, clues being either normal or multiple DLM; in the latter case the sum of the corresponding numbers for each light is provided. Unclued lights have unchecked letters which may be rearranged as CHARLES DICKENS."	
3254	21/05/1994	26 minute clock	Loda	144	2	"Half the answers are changed on entry: in half of these each letter is advanced ten places in the alphabet, while in the other half letters are moved ten places backwards. In remaining clues, one word is similarly treated."	
3255	28/05/1994	Brontecide	Plausus	148	1	"Half the clues are LL, with all removed letters being I; 6 clues have misprinted lights, with correct letters forming a rearrangement of NOBODY. In the top left-hand corner a STAKE is put through the EYE of POLYPHEMUS (read diagonally); in bottom right-hand corner ULYSSES escapes under a RAM."	
3256	04/06/1994	Inner Circle	Mass	204	12R	"Grid is circular, representing the zodiac. Radial lights are clued in twelve groups of four, one for each sector; in each group one light contains a component suggesting which 'house' should contain the four (e.g. SOUR(CE) suggests Crab), while the other three have misprinted definitions, with the correct letters rearranging to a 3-letter word which may be followed by '-HOUSE'. One circle contains thematic lights, clued without definitions; innermost circle contains HOUSE-BREAKER."	
3257	11/06/1994	Inner Circle	Wolfram	208	4	"Central 8 x 8 square is shaded, and lights entering it are jumbled. Certain Knights of the Round Table, clued without definitions, are entered along a knight's tour of the shaded region, such that numbering each square in the order visited gives an 8 x 8 magic square."	
3258	18/06/1994	ABC Decipher	Aldhelm	144	2	"Italicised clues have encoded lights; a 5 x 5 square with rows and columns labelled from A to E is filled with the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order (I standing for I and J), and each letter is replaced by the letter-pair consisting of the row and column labels."	Endoplasmic
3259	25/06/1994	Torque	Law	144	4	"Each across light is paired with one down, with locations to be determined by the solver. Each pair has a double clue, and is associated with one of 16 shaded squares (the centres of the 3 x 3 squares comprising the grid); treating each light as a force by adding the numerical values of its letters, the total torque of the two lights about the associated square is given. All lights are misprinted, spelling 'PHANTOM OF DELIGHT' (Across) and 'LOVELY APPARITION' (Down); shaded squares form a 4 x 4 word-square, while in order of associated clues they spell 'A MOMENT'S ORNAMENT'."	
3260	02/07/1994	Little Princess	Mime	144	2	Each 4-letter light is the Playfair-coded version of two 4-letter words using two codephrases; one diagonal contains the Playfair-coded form of DWARF + INFANTA (the Wilde story 'The Birthday of the Infanta' was reworked by Zemlinsky to form the opera 'The Dwarf').	"Oscar Wilde, Zemlinsky"
3261	09/07/1994	Past Masters	Fawley	154	1	"12 unclued lights are words from the titles of albums by THE BEATLES; each clue contains a superfluous word, whose initial and final letters form an entwined double acrostic spelling 'SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND' and LENNON, MCCARTNEY, HARRISON, STARKEY."	
3262	16/07/1994	World of Yesteryear	Third Man	144	2	"Ten lights (surnames of the 1966 England World Cup team) are encoded using a substitution cipher. In remaining across clues subsidiary indications lead to misprinted forms of the lights; one of the two letters concerned is the coded form of the other, and the uncoded letters spell SEELER, OVERATH, WEBER (members of the defeated German team). WOLSTENHOLME reads from bottom left-hand corner to bottom right-hand corner via the centre, while its coded form reads similarly from top left-hand corner to top right-hand corner."	They think it's all over - it is now
3263	23/07/1994	The Uncertainty Principle	Phi	144	4	Half the clues are normal but locations of lights must be determined; half the lights are formed from the answers by inserting or removing certain letters.	
3264	30/07/1994	What's the Odds?	Amicus	92	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z  stand for the odd numbers from 3 to 53, and clues are in terms of them."	
3265	06/08/1994	Farewell Medley	Klick	169	2	"Klick's final puzzle: apart from normal clues there are Topped and Tailed, Small Change, The First Shall be Last and Just Do As You're Told."	
3266	13/08/1994	Right & Left Shuffle	Radix	195	2	"Half the across lights are reversed; down lights are jumbled. Initial letters of clues spell 'FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS' - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Alternate letters of alternate rows, read boustrophedon, spell 'THE ONLY PROFESSION FOR WHICH NO PREPARATION IS THOUGHT NECESSARY', describing POLITICS (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3267	20/08/1994	Ever Decreasing Circles	Mynot	144	9R	"Grid is circular, with radial lights jumbled. Outermost circle contains 'OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS' - T.S. ELIOT; second and fourth circles contain SKIMBLESHANKS, RUMPLETEAZER, MUNGOJERRIE and MACAVITY, JELLYLORUM; innermost circle contains NINE LIVES."	
3268	27/08/1994	Vade Mecum - II	Mog	144	4	"Each answer loses all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling 'EVERYMAN, I WILL GO WITH THEE, AND BE THY GUIDE' (marking Everyman no. 2500 in The Observer)."	
3269	03/09/1994	Is It Really?	Ploutos	150	2	"Across answers are encoded on entry using AisLE, BisTRE, CisCO, DisMAY, EisEL, FisHY, GisMO, HisN, JisM, KisS, LisP, MisO, NisAN, OisE, PisH, RisK, SisAL, TisRI, UisT, VisOP, WisARD."	
3270	10/09/1994	Absence of Character	Symphonia	144	2	"Certain answers lose all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN and EDWARD ELGAR, each of whom used the theme of 'GOD SAVE THE KING' by THOMAS ARNE. "	
3271	17/09/1994	A Sting in the Tail	Dave	154	2	"Down lights are jumbled; in each row the clue consists of a pair of definitions, with one answer being itself the definition of the light (one of the signs of the zodiac). The missing sign SCORPIO is to be written beneath the grid."	
3272	24/09/1994	From One End to the Other	Bufo	196	2	"Each across answer is entered with a letter missing, spelling the alphabet in order; subsidiary indications in down clues lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT BRITAIN'S EXTREMITIES. Top and bottom rows, and leftmost and rightmost columns, contain DUNNET HEAD, THE LIZARD, ARDNAMURCHAN, LOWESTOFT respectively."	
3273	01/10/1994	Force 10	Llig	196	1	"Grid is blank; lights are entered in any of eight directions from given starting squares. Perimeter contains 'THE ENTRANCE OF THE CELL OPENS AND DISCOVERS X PLAYING AT CHESS'; the X is 'FERDINAND (AND) MIRANDA', contained in the central 4 x 4 square."	
3274	08/10/1994	Old _______	Psyche	169	2	"Half the clues are PD; the remainder lead to anagrams of the lights. Unclued lights are SPLITFOOT, NICK, ROGER, POKER, DAVY, GENTLEMAN, SCRATCH, TOAST, ONE."	
3275	15/10/1994	Symphony in Four Movements	Nibor	144	1	"Each of four 'movements' (VIVACE, LENTO, MODERATO, ALLEGRO) has three clues without definition, leading to surnames of composers; each corresponding first name has the same number of letters as the movement. To form the light in each case, the first name is moved along the number of letters given by the relevant 'key' (C, A, G, E respectively) and then added to the movement, e.g. BEETHOVEN leads to LUDWIG, which is moved 3 letters to form WIGLUD and added to VIVACE to give SRCMXI."	
3276	22/10/1994	The Plays of the Bard	Salamanca	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling GATECRASHERS, INTRUDERS, SORNERS, INTERLOPERS; unclued lights form 'ARE OFTEN WELCOMEST WHEN THEY ARE GONE'."	
3277	29/10/1994	The Properties of Numbers	Piccadilly	100	2	"Numerical puzzle; no two lights share an initial square, so they may be identified by their grid numbers alone. Clues are statements about the numbers 1 to 50 which are also true of the lights, e.g. 'Only 1, 8 and 27 are perfect cubes'."	
3278	05/11/1994	BESS	BeRo	144	2	"Eight answers lose YES or NO on entry, answering eight questions seeking to identify a famous person (Alfred NOYES). Five other answers must be replaced by anagrams (either synonyms of NOISE or the forename ALFRED) and then encoded using a substitution cipher."	Landlord's black-eyed daughter
3279	12/11/1994	Twice Knightly	Obiter	169	2	"Grid has co-ordinates, used to identify initial and final squares (two knight's moves apart) of 5-letter lights entered in king's move fashion. Other clues are LL, with each answer losing two Ks on entry."	
3280	19/11/1994	Symphony in C	Bandmaster	110	1R	"Grid is blank in the shape of a letter C; all answers comprise musical notes (A to G and DO, RE, MI/ME, FA, SO, LA, TI/TE/H) and are entered with notes as single letters, e.g. BALAAMITE becomes BAAAEB."	
3281	26/11/1994	"54 Across Yielded By a 44 Down's Trap So 29 Down [Verse, Devil, Dire]"	Columba	196	2	"12 answers lose PARADISE, EDEN or HEAVEN on entry; 12 other clues are PD, leading to characters who fall in the poem."
3282	03/12/1994	We Came Fishing	Apex	191	2	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'THIS BE THE VERSE YOU GRAVE FOR ME'. Perimeter and central row contain 16 words, each with one or two letters removed (spelling ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON), given misprinted definitions (spelling TRY A VERSE IN FIFTY); the words all come from a verse of 'UNDERWOODS' (50 Across), which also contains the quotation above."
3283	10/12/1994	Whorls	Adam	192	1	"Grid is a series of spirals, with eight groups of three 8-letter radial lights; in each group one is a name associated with RLS, one is obtained from an 11-letter answer by removing R, L, S in order, and one is encoded by adding the first light."
3284	17/12/1994	Fifty-Tiffy	Sabre	144	4	"Each row and column contains two lights, one being jumbled; there are no unchecked letters."
3285	24/12/1994	Brassless Load	Alban	238	2	Many lights are omitted from a narrative ''TWAS CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE'.
3286	31/12/1994	Ways of entering	Waterloo	169	1	"Grid is blank; 12 lights are entered in special ways, e.g. BLunderED, HUNTING-GroundS."
3287	07/01/1995	Basin	Mespot	169	2	"Perimeter contains 'SUSPICIOUS MINDS', 'KING CREOLE', 'HEARTBREAK HOTEL', 'HOUND DOG'. Clues are MP, spelling 'ALL SHOOK UP' (changing TALLET to TLALET and CALLERS tO CLLAERS), 'JAILHOUSE ROCK' (changing QUOD to UODQ and STIR to SIRT), 'WOODEN HEART' (changing DORT to DOTEAKRT and LEEP to LEBOEP), 'IT'S NOW OR NEVER' (changing MITRE to MNEVERRE and BAIT to BANOW). Grid contains 'LOVE ME TENDER' diagonally and ELVIS AARON PRESLEY."
3288	14/01/1995	Part-exchange (with 25% standard deposit)	Jago	144	2	"Clues are DLM; the four corners of the grid are completed in four different ways, as spelt out along diagonals: NORM (normal), SORT (with letters in alphabetical order), CODE (with the nth letter advanced n places in the alphabet) and TURN (reversed)."
3289	21/01/1995	Prosaic?	Le Gallois	225	2	"15 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SIR THOMAS BROWNE; half the remaining clues have subsidiary indications including extra letters, spelling NAT: LONDON SIXTEEN FIVE; the rest are MP, spelling DIED SIXTEEN EIGHTY TWO. Unclued lights are 'RELIGIO MEDICI', 'GARDEN OF CYRUS', 'URN BURIAL', 'VULGAR ERRORS'; perimeter contains 'I LOVE TO LOSE MYSELF IN A MYSTERY; TO PURSUE MY REASON TO AN O ALTITUDO!'"
3290	28/01/1995	BR's Home Base	Wolfram	100	2	"Numerical puzzle in base 4, with diamond-shaped grid; the letters  A, B, C, ..., U  (excluding  I  and  O)  stand for different primes up to 197. Puzzle commemorates the centenary of the birth of Babe Ruth."
3291	04/02/1995	Coordination	Duck	169	2	"Rows and columns are labelled with numbers from 1 to 13. In certain squares clashes are averted by advancing the letter in the across light the number of places given by the row and the letter in the down light the number of places given by the column; these squares spell 'COGITO ERGO SUM', said by REN? DESCARTES (unclued) in 'DISCOURS DE LA METHODE' (initial letters of clues not involved in clashes)."
3292	11/02/1995	65	Caper	144	2	"Each clue has one or more superfluous words; initial letters of those in the first 25 are those of the numbers from 1 to 25 (not in numerical order), while those in the last 11 spell MAGIC SQUARE, describing what is formed when the numbers are placed in a 5 x 5 square in order. Replacing the numbers by letters gives a Playfair codesquare which is used to encode 8 answers."
3293	18/02/1995	Innards	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented both initially and terminally, in each case by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."
3294	25/02/1995	Optimist	Fenrix	144	2	"There are 3 types of clues: some clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters are misplaced in the answers; some clues have a letter inserted, to be removed from the answers; some clues have a letter missing, to be inserted in the answers. In clue order the letters concerned spell 'I'M SURE WE SHOULD ALL BE AS HAPPY AS KINGS' - R.L.S."
3295	04/03/1995	A Short Tale	Mr Lemon	144	2	"9 clues are quotational allusions to riddles posed by Squirrel NUTKI(N) to the Owl O(N)LD BROWN; remaining clues are MP, spelling MRS WILLIAM HEELIS NEE H BEATRIX POTTER."
3296	11/03/1995	Whodunnit	Monk	225	2	"Double letters in answers are ignored in subsidiary indications; such letters are DELBUOD (doubled up) and replaced by a STAR to form the seven brightest stars in the constellation Orion. The letters concerned spell DOGSTAR, a synonym for SIRIUS; the letters above and to the right of the stars spell ARTEMIS, the killer of Orion."
3297	18/03/1995	Musical Chairs	Elefa	169	2	In 7 clues a type of TEA has replaced a word meaning TWO; in 7 lights the reverse replacement occurs. Grid contains 'PICTURE YOU UPON MY KNEE' in an appropriate shape.
3298	25/03/1995	"Treasure Hunt II, or 19 to 63 [Jerusalem, Purgatory]"	Hellphire	224	2	"Grid is blank and represents part of the earth's surface. Clues are in numerical order; those to (AN)DANTE, BEATRICE (entered in central X) and eight geographical locations have no definitions."
3299	01/04/1995	Station	Dimitry	169	4	"Each row and column contains one letter ignored in subsidiary indications; read by column from left to right they spell STARTING-POINT (and all clues concerned begin with a definition of POINT), whereas read by row from top to bottom they spell TRAIN-SPOTTING (a red herring)."
3300	08/04/1995	Hangover	Plausus	174	1	"Certain squares contain different fragments from across and down lights which when put together form battles, to be represented by crossed swords. Unclued lights are also swords: WHITEARM, MORGLAY, DAMASKIN, WASTER, ANLACE, SIMI. Diagonals contain WAGRAM, BULLRUN and FOIL, SABRE, TUCK. Squares containing crossed swords form the shape of a sword, suspended by a HAIR over the head of DAMOCLES."
3301	15/04/1995	Hangover Cure	Franc	165	2	"Answers meeting the edge of the grid are too long and must letters which overhang the grid removed. Top and bottom row contain 'TYRANTS MORE CRUEL THAN PROCRUSTES ...'; down clues contain superfluous words whose initial and final letters form '... OLD, WHO TO HIS IRON-BED BY TORTURE FITS THEIR NOBLER PARTS, THE SOULS OF SUFFERING WITS'."
3302	22/04/1995	Cipher	Noggs	144	1	Five different substitution ciphers are used for both clues and lights.
3303	29/04/1995	Unsquare Dance	Googly	81	4	Numerical puzzle concerning triples of numbers such that the sum of the square roots of the first two is the square root of the third.
3304	06/05/1995	Carte Blanche	Corylus	84	2	"Grid is blank; in the completed grid there are 26 numbered squares, containing A to Z in order."
3305	13/05/1995	Sketch upon Grid F	Law	225	4	"Letters appearing in answers are restricted to the 18 occurring in DESIGNFUL PATCHWORK; other letters in clues, preamble and title are to be ignored. At two squares in each 5 x 5 square (eight in the case of the central one) the letters in across and down lights clash (D across with P down in the first square, E across with A down in the second and so on); these squares are arranged in the shape of a sol, with a central circle surrounded by eight radial lines, and each must contain one in the completed grid."
3306	20/05/1995	A piece of cake	Smokey	196	2	"15 clues are LL, spelling CUT AND COME AGAIN; 17 other answers have their final letters removed and the remainder repeated to form the lights, all words, e.g. CHOOM leads to CHOOCHOO."
3307	27/05/1995	Across the Divide	Phi	176	2	"Each row has a clue defining two words each of between 6 and 8 letters; removing 0, 1 or 2 (consecutive) letters from each leaves two 6-letter lights (to which subsidiary indications refer), entered cyclically within the row from starting squares to be determined. Letters removed are to be placed in extra columns on either side of the grid; these then contain GIBRALTAR, HERCULES and MOUNT HACHO, ASTARTE. One of the two lights in each column is jumbled."
3308	03/06/1995	802701	Aldhelm	169	2	"Answers to italicised clues are entered either forwards or backwards in a word meaning 'time' to form a new word, e.g. S-KID-PAN, H-ARB-OUR. Other across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell MERCURY SPRINGS, suggesting H.G. WELLS (whose 'The Time Machine', set in the year 802701, was published in 1895); MORLOCKS and ELOI are to be shaded in the grid."
3309	10/06/1995	Use a Pencil	Ploutos	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'HERE IS NO LIGHT SAVE WHAT FROM HEAVEN IS'. Top and bottom row answers are ADDITIONALLY and SUBTRACTIONS; adding or subtracting letters given by down answers leads to ERASE EVERYTHING SEND BLANK."
3310	17/06/1995	Tmesis	Fawley	144	2	"For each light of more than 5 letters, either the light is a word and the clue consists of a definition interrupting the subsidiary indication, or the light is one word within another and the clue defines both while indicating the whose subsidiarily. Other clues are LL, spelling ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY."
3311	24/06/1995	One and Only	Serendip	144	2	Clues are presented in alphabetical order of answer; each answer loses all repetitions of letters. Perimeter contains 'SINGULARITY IS ALMOST INVARIABLY A CLUE' - CONAN DOYLE.
3312	01/07/1995	A Word from our Sponsor	Ricshaw	143	2	"All letters of the word PENGUIN are to be removed from the grid to leave blank squares in the shape of CUP, reflecting the change of sponsorship."
3313	08/07/1995	Tour de France	Peeper	170	1	"Grid is in the shape of France. Lights are cyclic permutations of the answers; in the grid may be traced JACQUES ANQUETIL, BERNARD HINAULT, EDDY MERCKX."
3314	15/07/1995	Artists	Meursault	144	2	"Clues all lack definitions, but answers are all ANIMALS, some entered using a NEW ORDER; unclued lights are obtained using various other pop artists as subsidiary indications."
3315	22/07/1995	Roulette	Miguel	171	19R	Grid is circular and represents a roulette wheel. Radial lights are 6-letter and of three types: normal with clues having extra letters (spelling YOUR CROUPIER); jumbled; and 7-letter answers with one letter removed (forming unclued lights CASINO DEALER at 0 and 00). Outermost circle contains words relating to luck; fourth circle (with interruptions at 0 and 00) contains ROUND SHE GOES - WHERE SHE STOPS NOBODY KNOWS.
3316	29/07/1995	PrimeVal	Amicus	65	2R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z  (excluding  o) stand for the prime numbers from 2 to 97 in some order, and clues are in terms of them."
3317	05/08/1995	Fifth Amendment	Adam	144	2	"Each answer loses its initial one, two or three letters (the amount removed being one fifth of the length, rounded to the nearest integer); IRIS MURDOCH and 'A SEVERED HEAD' are among the unclued lights."
3318	12/08/1995	Last Out	Loda	81	4	"Puzzle concerns the final test innings of D.G. BRADMAN, dismissed by W.E. HOLLIES; letters of the former are replaced by corresponding ones of the latter, and initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell HE WAS BOWLED BY A GOOGLY SECOND BALL. In eight consecutive clues the positions of letters O reveal the date 14/08/1948; the eight letters O in the grid are to be joined to indicate his score (a duck)."
3319	19/08/1995	What the El?	BeRo	121	1	"Lights of fewer than 8 letters have clues whose subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling UNCHECKED A IS ONE ETC.; taking unchecked letters in across lights in this fashion (with O representing 0) and inserting a decimal point gives 1.618033988749894, the GOLDEN RATIO (spelled by final letters of clues to 8-letter lights)."
3320	26/08/1995	Dactyls and Spondees	Phil Brindall	144	1	"Answers form twenty 'Virgilian hexameters', consisting of six dactyls or spondees, where each letter represents a syllable; dactyls are entered across and spondees down."
3321	02/09/1995	Stars and Stripes	Columba	169	2	"Answers are entered jumbled; clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE FIRST VERSE OF A SONG OF TWELVE ACROSS IS SET IN ALTERNATE COLUMNS (the answer to 12 Across being EXPERIENCE), the columns forming 'TIGER! TIGER! BURNING BRIGHT IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT, WHAT IMMORTAL HAND OR EYE COULD FRAME THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY?' (the last three letters appearing outside the grid). Final letters of superfluous words spell SIGHT THE POET AND MARK THE LETTERS OF HIS NAME WITH TWELVE ASTERISKS; two of the other columns contain WILLIAM BLAKE."
3322	09/09/1995	Back to Bolivia	Pabulum	144	1	"One third of the clues are DLM (and refer to Bolivia); one third are normal but answers are misprinted to form entries in volume 2 of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (on whose spine appears the title); one third contain superfluous words, spelling part of the definition of GROVE in Chambers'."
3323	16/09/1995	Listeners	Obiter	144	2	"Unclued lights are Friends (FOX, FRY, PENN, BARCLAY), Romans (EMPEROR, PRAETOR, CENSOR, SENATOR) and Countrymen (CLODHOPPER, HAYSEED, BOOR, HODGE), together with MARK ANTONY. Clues have letters inserted in or omitted from definitions, or are DLM with extra letters involved in letter-mixtures; letters concerned spell 'I COME TO BURY CAESAR, NOT TO PRAISE HIM'."
3324	23/09/1995	1A / 56A [To Letters I'll Not Be Confin'd]	Mass	180	1	"Italicised clues have answers containing numbers, to be entered as numerals, e.g. FOURGON becomes 4GON. Other clues are DLM with letter-mixtures involving extra letters, spelling 'TO NUMBERS I'LL NOT BE CONFIN'D' - C.H. WILLIAMS; the quotation appears as the top and bottom rows of the grid, but with NUMBERS replaced by LETTERS."
3325	30/09/1995	Invisible Ink	Sabre	144	2	"Half the clues in each direction are given but their answers are to be encoded using a substitution cipher; other clues are not given, but their lights are normal."
3326	07/10/1995	X	Ozzie	144	4R	Grid is blank; clues are grouped by light-length and given in alphabetical order of light within each group.
3327	14/10/1995	Conversation Piece	Hysterix	176	1	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double LL clues; placing the letters removed outside the grid, transferring letters in certain outer squares to a separate row and reading it, outer squares and central row and column spell ''OH, THE TIMES ... SECOND-FINEST CROSSWORD IN THE WORLD.' 'WHO HAS THE BEST?' 'THE LISTENER ... NEVER MISS IT'', said by LEONARD BERNSTEIN (to be shaded)."
3328	21/10/1995	Would not you ...?	MynoT	144	2	"Clues are printed as though misheard; unclued lights are trees (title should have been ""Wood (not yew)"") together with CLUE and CLEW."
3329	28/10/1995	Alphanumerics II	Piccadilly	121	2	"Numerical puzzle; the distinct letters of the title represent the numbers from 0 to 11, and clues are to words containing them alone, the lights being the products of the numbers concerned. One row and one column correspond to each base between 2 and 12."	
3330	04/11/1995	Key Numbers	Le Gallois	169	2	"Answers beginning with A to G have the initial letter added to each subsequent letter to form the light, e.g. FLUE leads to FRAK."	
3331	11/11/1995	Polymath	Ix	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words; answers are entered jumbled, such that each unchecked letter is the initial letter of the superfluous word - these spell 'I HAVE TAKEN ALL KNOWLEDGE TO BE MY PROVINCE'."	
3332	18/11/1995	Bad Lot	Duck	144	2	"Some clues have superfluous letters added, spelling 'ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY'; some answers lose jumbles of sheep on entry; 4 lights are Playfair-coded."	G.F. Handel
3333	25/11/1995	Thirty-six	Law	169	2	"36 clues are LL, spelling CAMPION - 'LOOK TO THE LADY' - MARGERY ALLINGHAM. Remaining clues are normal, but in their lights TWELVE TREES (nom de guerre assumed by Campion in the book) are to be entered as TWELVE TEES, arranged in TWELVE THREES (alternative form of title)."	
3334	02/12/1995	Every Second Counts	Bureaucat	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose second letters spell T.C. - 'I HOPE WE ENGLISH WILL LONG MAINTAIN OUR GRAND TALENT POUR LE SILENCE'. Alternate letters of top and bottom rows spell THOMAS CARLYLE; ECCLEFECHAN, CHELSEA and CRAIGENPUTTOCK may be found in the grid."	
3335	09/12/1995	A Sop To Cerberus	Teapoy	93	1	"Grid is circular, with jumbled 5-letter radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'IS THERE ANYTHING IN LIFE SO DISENCHANTING AS ATTAINMENT?', from 'THE HANSOM CAB' (third circle) by RLS (innermost circle)."	
3336	16/12/1995	The Plays of the Bard - II	Salamanca	165	2	"Down lights are jumbled, with only letters appearing in correct squares forming 'WHAT STRONGER BREASTPLATE ...' in an appropriately-shaped region; six across answers lose a word meaning 'taint' centrally (quotation concludes '... than a heart untainted?')"	
3337	23/12/1995	Christmas Cards	Smokey	196	2	"There are 4 types of clue: Chase the Ace (LL with A omitted); Find the Lady (part of the answer is a girl's name, to be entered in a random position within the light); Rummy (the light is an anagram of the answer); Snap (clue defines two words, each being a misprint of the light)."	
3338	30/12/1995	A Commodius Vicus	Aragon	225	2	"Down answers either gain or lose a letter on entry, spelling READ THE FIRST AND LAST SENTENCES; central across light (unclued) is 'FINNEGANS WAKE'. Across clues are run together in a passage of prose, with superfluous words whose initial letters spell JAMES AUGUSTINE ALOYSIUS JOYCE; they are presented in cyclic order, and lights run from the end of one row to the beginning of the next, with the last and first eight letters being 'ALONG THE RIVERRUN' (the first and last words of the novel)."	
3339	06/01/1996	Endangered Species	Machiavelli	169	4	"25 lights are formed by removing creatures, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, from longer words; clues define both words."	
3340	13/01/1996	A Colour Symphony	Bandmaster	132	1	"Down clues contain superfluous words, which may be paired (mostly) to form definitions of ten words or phrases involving colours: WHITE SQUIRE, GREYHOUND, BLACK LUNG, PINK EYE, RED HERRING, ORANGE ROOT, YELLOW DOG CONTRACT, GREEN CARD, BLUE-STOCKING, PURPLE INGRAIN. The words following the colours all appear in the grid, and corresponding squares must be appropriately coloured; where two primary colours meet the mixed colour is to be used, e.g. the G in STOCKING and HERRING is that of INGRAIN and therefore coloured purple."	
3341	20/01/1996	The Hunting of the Quark	Blank	150	1	"Grid is hexagonal and comprises equilateral triangles. Lights are entered in six directions, named after the six flavours of quark: up and down are entered normally; sideways (for strange) and centre (for charm) are entered as one-word anagrams; top (for truth) are WHIRLIGIG and DIABOLO and bottom (for beauty) are hunters of the snark, all beginning with B. Letters A, H and T are to be replaced by bars, thus forming a maze; at the centre is a BOOJUM."	
3342	27/01/1996	"2, 10, 8, 4, 0, 0, 12, 5, 13 [In Summary]"	Aldhelm	144	2	"Puzzle concerns a league of four football teams; eight clues give the scores in eight matches, with the numbers of letters omitted from definition and answer being the numbers of goals scored by the home and away teams. The full league table is to be completed; each row of it then leads to an unclued light by replacing numbers by letters consistently."	
3343	03/02/1996	Double Entendre II	Gos	144	2	"10 lights appear in Chambers' only in etymological form; these are correctly positioned, but the locations of others must be determined."	
3344	10/02/1996	Good for Nothing	Dimitry	144	2	"Four columns of the grid, read across rather than down, spell LATERAL THINKING HAS BEEN COINED TO DESCRIBE THIS: DE BONO."	
3345	17/02/1996	Double fault	Gioconda	144	4	"15 clues are MP, spelling PRINTER'S DEVILRY; remaining clues are PD."	
3346	24/02/1996	Unfair	Leo	156	2	There are 3 types of clue: subsidiary indications leading to anagrams of the lights; subsidiary indications leading to other lights; definitions being incorrect. Unclued lights are words connected with funfairs lacking their initial letters. 	
3347	02/03/1996	Take Your Partners	Llig	196	2	"25 clues lack definitions and lead to words (mainly proper nouns, all beginning with different letters of the alphabet) associated with the lights, e.g. OCCAM leads to RAZOR, QUEENSBURY leads to RULES; a 26th light (SHELTER) is unclued, and its partner (ANDERSON) must be written beneath the grid."	
3348	09/03/1996	Pay In The End	Owzat	169	2	"Grid represents a TESCO STORE (anagrams of two lights): top row is CAR-P, FREE P, P LOT (with P standing for parking); there is a revolving DOOR; there are three TROLLEYs heading in various directions; bottom row is MATE, LATON, PASS (three check-outs)."	
3349	16/03/1996	Deregistration	Essem	144	2	6 lights have subsidiary indications leading to longer words from which DOCTORs are removed (3 being 'doctored dice'); unclued lights are all meanings of DOCTOR.	
3350	23/03/1996	Up and Down	Doubleshooter [Peeper]	169	2	Symmetrically opposite lights are entered in opposite directions and in each case one clue leads to both.	
3351	30/03/1996	Treble Chance	Foxglove	144	2	"Clues are to be taken in threes, with one in each three being MP, spelling TRIDIMENSIONAL; 8 answers are each members of a trio, with the light being one of the other members and the initial letters of the third members spelling TRIPLETS."	
3352	06/04/1996	The Downy Bear	Mr Lemon	144	2	"Clues contain pairs of superfluous words, whose initial letters spell IF ABC LIE ON A LINE AND LMN LIE ON A LINE THEN THE INTERSECTS OF AM, BL; AN, CL; BN, CM LIE ON A LINE (the statement of Pappus' theorem). Top row contains A, B, C and bottom row L, M, N; the three intersects lie along the SW-NE diagonal and the letters between them are ALAAFD, an encoded form of PAPPUS (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3353	13/04/1996	Knights' Tour	Wolfram	144	1R	Lights are entered along two knight's tours.	
3354	20/04/1996	Saving Space	Waterloo	100	1	"Each answer has two halves differing in a single letter, and is entered with the two letters in the same square, e.g. TRESTLES is entered as T R/L E S."	
3355	27/04/1996	Diabolical Cuboidal Squares	Oyler	81	1	"Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples  (a, b, c, d)  with  a? + b? + c? = d?."	
3356	04/05/1996	Four-letter words	Kea	144	4	"Four italicised clues are subsidiary indications to NIGEL LAWSON, LEON BRITTAN, NEIL KINNOCK, DENIS HEALEY; the lights are formed by reversing the first name and inserting the initial letter of the surname, giving LEGLIN, NOBEL, LIKEN, SHINED. The unclued 4-letter lights when joined together form MARGARET THATCHER, which similarly leads to TETRAGRAM (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3357	11/05/1996	Spot the word Play	Apex	140	2	"Half the clues are pairs of definitions to words where one (the light) is formed by omitting a pair of consecutive letters from the other. Playfair-coded versions of the pairs are given, and the perimeter is the Playfair-coded version of '... TO PRICK THE SIDES OF MY INTENT, BUT ONLY VAULTING ...'; 'AMBITION' is to be shaded in the grid."	I have no spur
3358	18/05/1996	Mixed Grill	Arcturus	144	2	"6 clues are PD, leading to SAUSAGE, BACON, TOMATO, LIVER, CUTLET, KIDNEY; remaining clues are MP, spelling 'EACH BLOCK CUT SMOOTH AND WELL FITTING'. Eight isolated squares are to be cut out and the solution folded about the horizontal axis (marked FOLD HERE); the letters of MUSHROOM are then revealed by the grille formed."	
3359	25/05/1996	Catch 22	Mass	169	2	"22 clues contain superfluous letters, spelling THE DOUBLE BIND SITUATION; remaining 22 clues have DEFINITIONS IN SUBSID. PARTS (unclued central row and column)."	
3360	01/06/1996	Guzzle! (Gasp!)	MynoT	144	4	"Each clue contains a superfluous word or phrase, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Accidents found in cloudy spots' leads to CRASHES, CAST (= found), giving TRASHES."	
3361	08/06/1996	The Movie Channel	Loda	156	2	"Grid represents a film clip; clues are DLM in the form of film reviews, and are presented in 7 groups, one for each day of the week, with locations of lights within groups to be determined. In each group a single letter is consistently removed from the answers to form the lights, spelling THE G(E)(T)AW(A)Y; unclued columns are STEVE MCQUEEN and SAM PECKINPAH; taking one of the lights for each day gives the synopsis SEX AND GUNS STORY - LOVERS FLYING FRO' POLIC'."
3362	15/06/1996	Open Doors	Cheiron	144	2	"All clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE FAT DIRECTOR, THE FAT CONTROLLER, SIR TOPHAM HATT - the person in control of the SODOR RAILWAY (bottom row), created by THE REV. W. AWDRY (rightmost column). The first 11 down lights (unclued) are THOMAS, EDWARD, HENRY, GORDON, JAMES, PERCY, TOBY, DUCK, DONALD, DOUGLAS, OLIVER; the letters of the bottom half of the grid are those of the top half rearranged. Clues to across lights in bottom half are given in alphabetical order of light; those to across lights in top half and to down lights in bottom half lead to two words, which must be added before entry, e.g. AIRY + GUMP become HDEO."
3363	22/06/1996	An Agreeable Disposition?	Symphonia	144	2	Grid is blank; lights are entered in any of eight directions from given starting squares.
3364	29/06/1996	Sleeve Note	Monk	182	2	"Central row contains ENGLISH CHANNEL (= La Manche, hence title); five across lights in top half are English words whose French equivalents are across lights in bottom half, with clues being subsidiary indications to the pair, given in random order. Other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell A COLLINS ROBERT FRENCH DICTIONARY. Down lights are jumbled; FOLKESTONE - EUROTUNNEL - CALAIS are to be shaded."
3365	06/07/1996	Holiday Directions	BeRo	169	2	"Alternate letters in central row, column and main diagonals spell PANGKOR, TANGIER, BANGKOK and MARGATE; one (PANGKOR) is to be determined by following directions starting from WIGSTON and involving digit sums of certain lights. "
3366	13/07/1996	Bufo's World Tour	Bufo	169	4	"Superfluous words in clues form preamble: ""Each answer is entered in diagram with on additional letter which is never unchecked. After finishing puzzle don't send in printed grid. Instead send picture postcard listing eight places visited on world tour. These are given by extra letters in clue order."" The eight places are LONDON, SEOUL, IONA, REGINA, NATAL, NICE, TRENTO, THEBES."
3367	20/07/1996	Slummer	Sabre	169	2	Unclued lights are types of hut; a light traced along knight's moves represents the day's travel from the final square of one to the initial square of the next. Other lights are misprinted.
3368	27/07/1996	Around the Squares	Duck	121	1	"Twenty-five 9-letter lights are entered jumbled in 3 x 3 blocks centred on lettered squares, which contain 'MEANDERING WITH A MAZY MOTION'; ten other lights follow a path around the lettered squares. "
3369	03/08/1996	Our Hero Hung	Ark	144	2	"9 clues (numbered 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34) are LL, spelling FIBONACCI (main diagonal is LEONARDO - PISA). Other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell PRAISE OLD FILM FOR 'THE LISTENER', a clue to SELL (to be written beneath the grid), the missing link in the Fibonacci sequence of unclued lights AWE, SCOG, ****, ALIAS, BENNE (using base 26 we have AWE + SCOG = SELL, SCOG + SELL = ALIAS, SELL + ALIAS = BENNE)."
3370	10/08/1996	Endgame	Charybdis	169	2	"Unclued lights are SWEETHEART, RECTO, CURRENT, DRONE, NITROGEN, HOSPITAL, PEKOE, suggesting E, R, I, B, N, H, T; the positions of these letters in the phrase TRINE TO THE NUBBING-CHEAT are given. Clued lights SECOND, QUESTION, DUNDERHEAD and diagonal words SOFT, LIRA suggest S, Q, D, P, L which are not in the phrase and therefore form part of the gallows, to be shaded."
3371	17/08/1996	A Puzzle With A Catch	Phi	192	1	"Grid is circular; in each of 12 sectors there are 3 radial lights, one jumbled, one with a clue containing a superfluous letter, and one (a fish) unclued, with its initial letter entered outside the grid (the letter being the superfluous letter of the previous clue). Fourth circle contains STARGAZEY PIE."
3372	24/08/1996	Double-Cross Word	Plausus	117	1	"Rows and columns have normal clues to words contained therein, run together with letter-mixtures of remaining letters at beginning or end. Four clues are given to 'crosses' of diagonal 4- and 3-letter words. Four bars are given; remainder are to be entered so as to create a maze, tracing which is an alternating sequence of snakes and grasses, with one interloper PEACH to be written beneath the grid."
3373	31/08/1996	MA	Law	144	2	"Key word is MANXMAN: unclued lights are FELAFEL, DERIDER, INGOING, DOSADOS, all similarly having matches in 1st and 5th, 2nd and 6th, and 3rd and 7th positions; certain clues contain 7-letter words with two matches out of three, with central letters spelling WHITE TO PLAY AND MATE IN TWO MOVES. Central 8 x 8 square is a chessboard, and lights corresponding to remaining clues contain chess pieces, with colours determined by appropriate letters of clues; only solution involves three captures (man x man), leaving three squares empty and producing ten new lights, all words."
3374	07/09/1996	Enclosure	Poat	169	2	"Seven across lights are coins and units of currency; perimeter contains 'PLEIDIOL WYF IM GWLAD', 'DECUS ET TUTAMEN', 'NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT' (with doubled letters elided)."
3375	14/09/1996	The Plays of the Bard III	Salamanca	126	2	"Unclued lights are 'FORBEAR TO JUDGE, FOR WE ARE SINNERS ALL': some answers lose RULE, HEAR, FIND, RATE, SEE, DEEM, TRY, SIT on entry; some answers are jumbled; some are 'sinners', found in jumbled form in quotations."
3376	21/09/1996	Grand Slam	Phil Brindall	169	1	"Grid represents a hand of bridge at which North bids 6S but West overbids 7C (successfully). Lights are entered inwards from the relevant sides, gaining S, H, D or C to show the suit played and A, K, Q or J if appropriate."
3377	28/09/1996	Morning Service	Nibor	205	1	"28 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters are those unchecked in the perimeter quotation 'THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT'. Grid contains (in shape of a cross) LOOK AT THIRD LETTER OF CLUES; applying this to the 28 clues yields SUM LETTERS ITALICISED HEADINGS. Adding the numerical values of the letters in the items of an Order of Service gives the psalm and hymn numbers, to be entered in a separate grid."
3378	05/10/1996	Thirty One	Radix	169	2	"Thirty squares contain clashes between across and down lights, to be resolved by working modulo 31 and adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing numerical values of letters in the four quarters of the grid, the clashes forming appropriately a plus sign (+), a minus sign (-), a multiplication sign (x) and a division sign (?)."
3379	12/10/1996	Seating Plan	Machiavelli	144	4	"In each across answer, the chemical symbol for the element whose atomic number is that of the light is replaced by its successor in the periodic table."
3380	19/10/1996	Syndicate VIII	Piccadilly	144	2	"Numerical puzzle; the ten letters in the title stand for different numbers between 1 and 49, and clues are in terms of them. Eight rows and columns represent selections of six lottery numbers chosen by eight members of a syndicate; two had three of the six winning numbers, chosen according to their 3-letter names and dates of birth."
3381	26/10/1996	Mixed Doubles	Ix	196	2	"Clues are to be taken in pairs: in each, one is LL, spelling 'TRADITION APPROVES ALL FORMS', while the other light is jumbled such that all unchecked letters are equal to that omitted in the LL light."
3382	02/11/1996	Souvenir of West Bay	Adam	144	4	"Puzzle concerns 'THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE' (top row and rightmost column): 11 clues define the light and a keyword from the poem, and contain a mixture of the combined letters; leftmost column and bottom row contain 'ALL A-GLIMMER' and 'A PURPLE GLOW' from the remaining line."
3383	09/11/1996	Nattier Guy	Mordred	225	2	"In five pairs of clues to symmetrically opposite lights, definitions have been interchanged; theme is THE BLUES SINGERS (unclued central row), with one light in each pair being a sort of BLUE and the other being a SINGER. One other pair, AZURE and SMITH, must be highlighted."
3384	16/11/1996	"14 v 31 [Richard Hannay, The Black Stone]"	Mr Lemon	156	2	"All 39 lights have one letter moving towards the back, spelling 'THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS' - J. BUCHAN (LORD TWEEDSMUIR)."
3385	23/11/1996	A Showbiz Addiction	Lato	144	2	"Each row contains two lights, obtained by removing letters from the front of the first answer and the back of the second; the letters removed form CAPE, HAT, GLOVES, BOA, BOLERO, BELT, DRESS, BOOTS, GARTER, NYLONS, BASQUE (while in the final row GEE-STRING is not removed). Down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THEY ARE EXTREMELY HABIT-FORMING."
3386	30/11/1996	Eight Ways	Alcuin	85	1	Grid is blank and comprises rhombi; lights are entered in any of eight directions. Main diagonals contain THESE WILL BE COLOURED IN WHITE; letters are to be removed and grid coloured to produce a St. Andrew's cross.
3387	07/12/1996	Explanations	Waterloo	144	1R	"Where two clues share the same number, one answer contains IS and explains how the other is to be altered to form the light. Each of the other clues contains a superfluous word containing IS, which explains how another word in the clue is to be altered before the clue can be solved."
3388	14/12/1996	No-no	Obiter	169	2	"Unclued lights are phrases from which the numbers ONE, TWO, ..., TEN have been removed. Some clues have lost either NO or a number, which must be restored before solving; in the remainder the answer suffers a similar loss on entry."
3389	21/12/1996	Waterstone's	Ricshaw	196	4	"Across clues contain superfluous letters; down clues have subsidiary indications leading to the light with one letter advanced by a certain amount, to be interpreted as another letter; together these spell 'THIS MUSIC CREPT BY ME UPON THE WATERS' - FERDINAND. Perimeter contains THE BLUE DANUBE, SIEGFRIED'S RHINE JOURNEY, SEVERN SUITE, VLTAVA."
3390	28/12/1996	Pin the Tail on the Donkey II	Smokey	144	2	The 32 answers which are creatures are entered with the last letter in any position.
3391	04/01/1997	Pas Si Ton	Kea	144	4	The last letter of each answer is moved to the beginning of the next; PROVECTION appears in the centre of the main diagonal.
3392	11/01/1997	Boundary	Apex	169	2	"Each row or column has its clues run together. Boundary contains GROUP WITH A NEW CRICKET BAT - TAVERNER COULD BE AFTER ONE!, the clue to INVERTEBRATA. "
3393	18/01/1997	Key Ring	Mass	204	12R	"Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, half having LL clues spelling A SET OF SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES (whose Playfair-coded version is provided); one circle contains words meaning KEY."	Tynwald
3394	25/01/1997	Angles	RadGraDeg	128	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  stand for the numbers from 1 to 26 in some order, and clues are in terms of them, often involving angles."	
3395	01/02/1997	A-maze-ing	The Tall'n	169	2	"Grid has only some bars provided; HOLLYWOOD STONE, HAMPTON COURT, CRETAN LABYRINTH are clued without definition. The maze can be traced from the top left corner to the centre, moving through bars (locked doors) by removing keys (A, B, C, ..., G) from one side, leaving blank squares, and adding them to letters on the other. Retracing the path then spells MINOTAUR - BALL OF THREAD - THESEUS."	
3396	08/02/1997	Pub Crawl	Aragon	144	2	"Each row of the grid represents an hour from 12:00 noon to 11:00 p.m., with no vertical bars in the top four and bottom four rows when the pub crawl took place; clues in each of these rows are run together, with those to the later rows subject to wrong positioning of definitions and subsidiary indications and also slurred speech. Portions of down lights falling in these rows are jumbled; across lights in these rows are also jumbled so that, ignoring bars, the top four rows contain the drinks consumed and the bottom four the pubs visited."	
3397	15/02/1997	Rueoc ed Irc	Le Gallois	156	2	"19 clues are MP, spelling 'BUT O HEART, HEART, HEART'; in perimeter clues (given in random order) the central one or two letters of each word spell one of a pair of lovers, the light being the other. CONSTANT LOVERS must be shaded at the heart of the grid in the shape of a heart."	
3398	22/02/1997	All Square	Dimitry	224	4	"Grid is blank, with numbers indicating squares through which lights pass (their directions not being given). The grid is to be dissected into four pieces which may be reassembled into a larger square with jagged edges around a central 7 x 7 hole; there are four 17-letter lights (CHARACTERISTICALLY, PERPENDICULAR STYLE, DISPROPORTIONATELY, PARALLELOGRAMMICAL) clued only within the preamble."	
3399	01/03/1997	A Musical Offering	Bandmaster	196	2	"14 answers contain jumbles of ENIGMA, to be replaced by the title of one of Elgar's variations (in order); the penultimate title is ***, and crossing lights therefore have STAR replaced by *."	
3400	08/03/1997	Wheeler-dealing	Sabre	144	1	"Grid is blank; each row and column contains two lights, entered cyclically, with starting squares to be determined. Three answers in each direction are horses and are to be replaced by other horses on entry."	
3401	15/03/1997	Enigma Variation	Swan	144	2	"Half the across answers are encoded on entry. Encoding uses a cyclic sequence of the 26 letters with a starting position; each letter of the answer determines the number of places to be moved through the sequence to arrive at the encoded form of the letter, which then acts as starting position for the next letter."	
3402	22/03/1997	"Minus Two, Plus One"	Gioconda	169	2	"Across answers each lose a different double letter on entry; down lights are all jumbled, and in 26 the answer gains an extra letter (different each time) on entry."	
3403	29/03/1997	All at Sea	Franc	168	2	"Six clues lack definitions and lead to boats (which are not lights), whose second letters spell ARMADA, to be written beneath the grid. Remaining clues either have definitions confused with subsidiary indications, or have definitions leading to anagrams of the lights; perimeter followed by central row spells 'THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME TO WIN THIS GAME AND TO THRASH THE SPANIARDS TOO'."	
3404	05/04/1997	Memorable Occasion	Monk	196	2	"Perimeter contains ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN - 'ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH'. Clues have subsidiary indications leading to the lights with extra letters, spelling (in cyclic order) SHADED SQUARES SUGGEST HOW FOURTEEN SQUARES MUST BE FILLED; shaded squares contain RED LETTER DAY, and in fourteen squares a Russian letter had to be used."	
3405	12/04/1997	25 Across [Turned to Stone]	Psyche	169	2	"Clues either have extra letters in definitions or have subsidiary indications leading to the lights with extra letters, spelling 'THERE WERE THREE GORGONS WITH SERPENTS ON THEIR HEADS'; nine answers are replaced by anagrams to form MARBLE, GRANITE, SARD, CORAL, MICA, GNEISS, ROCK, PEARL, RUBY; unclued lights are MEDUSA and TURNED TO STONE."	
3406	19/04/1997	Morrissey	149	184	4R	"Grid comprises nine linked morris designs, each containing three 8-letter lights entered clockwise or anti-clockwise, clued in alphabetical order, and eight 3-letter lights entered inwards."	
3407	26/04/1997	Casting Out Nines	Oyler	81	2	"Numerical puzzle in base 9; no two lights share an initial square, so they may be identified by their grid numbers alone. Clues are statements about the numbers 1 to 45 (= 41 in denary) which are also true of the lights, e.g. 'Only 1, 8 and 30 are perfect cubes'."	
3408	03/05/1997	RS	Glow Worm	169	2	"Each letter of the alphabet is encoded once to resolve a clash; 9 blank squares must be left in the shape of a cross at the centre of the grid; unclued lights are ELECTORIAL, CASTING VOTES, SECRET BALLOT. Ten clues have subsidiary indications leading to the answers with extra letters, spelling (when decoded) THIRD PARTY."	Proportional representation
3409	10/05/1997	Alphabetical Jigsaw	Symphonia	121	2	"There are 31 clues, one for each consonant and two for each vowel; in each case the letter appears as the initial or final letter of the answer; positions of lights must be determined."
3410	17/05/1997	Poison and Antidote	Arachne	144	2	"Some answers are replaced by opposites on entry, e.g. MIDNIGHT leads to NOON. Remaining clues have extra letters, spelling BIBLE, VOLTAIRE, B. RUSSELL; unclued lights are AMOS, GENESIS, MICAH and CANDIDE, ZADIG, ZAIRE."
3411	24/05/1997	Chequered Flag	The Tall'n	136	1	"Grid represents a chequered flag; down lights are clued in columns and overlap. Circuit lights are 6-letter, entered clockwise; 11 of them are types of WHEELS, the centres of 10 of which may be joined to form TT, with the 11th (NORTON) being shaded."
3412	31/05/1997	Put Your Heads Together	Arcturus	144	2	"In nine squares clashes are resolved by removing the initial letters from the two answers and adding them to produce the letter to be inserted in the square, e.g. PARAGONITE, BUNS (crossing at 3rd and 2nd letters respectively) lead to ARRAGONITE, URNS (since P + B = R)."
3413	07/06/1997	Typo	Noggs	144	2	All answers are misprinted on entry; in each case a single-word definition of the light appears as a superfluous word in the clue to the crossing light.
3414	14/06/1997	"36 I - The 31 [Inferno, Vestibule]"	Hellphire	192	2	"Apart from those in the first two and last two columns, all lights are jumbled; top four rows of internal part of grid contain 'LASCIARE OGNI SPERANZA VOI CH'ENTRATE', while HORNET, BEMBEX, WASP, VESPA appear in shaded squares underneath."
3415	21/06/1997	Coat of Arms	Peeper	127	1	"There are 3 types of clues: normal (with answers entered across or down), MP (with answers entered diagonally), spelling 'BETTER'N ANY OTHER FROG', and PD (with answers entered along chevrons). Some squares contain AZURE, VERT, GULES, OR, ARGENT, SABLE, PURPURE, to be replaced by appropriate hatching or dots or coloured in."
3416	28/06/1997	Playback	Loda	144	2	"Down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE WEATHER and BEATING RETREAT. Across clues are programme descriptions; all across lights (some being unclued) have code numbers provided, made up of the atomic numbers of chemical symbols comprising the lights (both lights and numbers being reversed)."
3417	05/07/1997	Brick Wall	Quinapalus	160	1	"Grid is blank and represents a game of Tetris in which all squares are filled. Each row contains a clued 10-letter light; clues are given to bricks in order of appearance, with the definition leading to a 5-letter word from which one letter determining the shape of the brick must be removed."
3418	12/07/1997	Splaash	Kea	144	1R	"Grid is blank, with a line across just below the centre: above this line, lights in the same row or column either overlap or have intervening letters; below it, across answers may change row as they proceed. DAVID HOCKNEY is to be shaded below the line."
3419	19/07/1997	"Mel, but not Kim"	Meursault	144	1	"Asterisked clues have answers omitting all letters C, H, O on entry, with subsidiary indications leading to the lights; the total omissions are C-12, H-22, O-11, giving the chemical formula for sugar. Unclued lights MADELEINE, MAID OF HONOUR, ANGELICA are simultaneously girls and sugary concoctions. Subsidiary indications in 18 clues involve extra letters, spelling ISABELLA MARY MAYSON (original name of MRS. BEETON, to be written beneath the grid along with 'SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THINGS NICE, THAT'S WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF')."
3420	26/07/1997	Headingley 81	Phil Brindall	144	1	"Grid represents the scorecard from the 1981 Headingley test; each light represents an innnings, with additions, mostly involving Roman numerals, to show the score made, e.g. HIVED, 102 leads to H I CV E DII."
3421	02/08/1997	Event	Anon	121	2	Some answers occur in a narrative about the Listener Setters' Dinner; many lose the Christian name of a setter on entry. Perimeter contains 'I'VE GOT A LITTLE LIST; THEY ALL OF THEM WERE MISSED'.
3422	09/08/1997	The Plays of the Bard - IV	Salamanca	141	2	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues; central column is '... A WOMAN'S HIDE' (the quotation begins 'O TIGER'S HEART WRAPPED IN ...'), with bottom row THE DUKE OF YORK and top row QUEEN MARGARET. On one side of the grid some lights meaning women have O(TI)G(ER) inserted to form the light (another word); on the other some lose Y (from 'OFF WITH HIS HEAD', the Queen's retaliation to York)."
3423	16/08/1997	Cathexis	Dimitry	196	2	"The answer to each clue is converted to a string of numbers, whose digits are then jumbled, and the whole is then translated back to a different word, e.g. DIMITRY leads to 49139201825, rearranged as 31208524919 which leads to CATHEXIS."
3424	23/08/1997	Stack of Fruit	Corylus	169	2	"Unclued lights (cryptically in two cases), and superfluous words in 11 clues, form a limerick (see title) by RONALD KNOX: 'THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WHO SAID 'GOD MUST THINK IT EXCEEDINGLY ODD, IF HE FINDS THAT THIS TREE CONTINUES TO BE WHEN THERE'S NO-ONE ABOUT IN THE QUAD'."
3425	30/08/1997	Carte Blanche Plus	Ploutos	144	1R	"Grid is blank; in four cases where two lights share a starting square, they form a pair and the first is encoded by adding the grid number to each letter, e.g. CATS and DOGS (1 Across and Down) lead to DBUT, DOGS."
3426	06/09/1997	Directions Enclosed	Adam	144	4	"18 clues are LL, spelling OMIT EVERY THIRD WORD, explaining how to solve the remaining clues."
3427	13/09/1997	Friendly Fire	Leo	144	2	"Most clues are MP, spelling NON-ATTACKING QUEENS ON CHESSBOARD; remaining lights contain a letter Q within the central 8 x 8 square, and as many as possible (eight) must be shaded so as to meet this description."
3428	20/09/1997	Snags	Columba	144	2	"Clues have a letter either omitted or inserted, spelling 'THE LADY VANISHES', 'VERTIGO', 'FRENZY', 'THE BIRDS', describing how the lights are formed; four lights are 'PSYCHO', 'MARNIE', 'SABOTEUR', 'ROPE'; HITCHCOCK may be found in two diagonals."
3429	27/09/1997	Phone Phreaks	BeRo	144	1	"Answers are entered in lower case, with 6-letter answers entered phonetically, complete with stress marks and accents as in Chambers' 1993; 'g bernard shaw' appears diagonally, linking 'ghoti' with 'fish'. Asterisked clues have superfluous words: the phonetic initial letters of those across spell the pronunciation of GEORGE BERNARD SHAW; initial letters of those down spell LAUGH, WOMEN, NATION."
3430	04/10/1997	A Catalogue	Apex	192	2	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double LL clues; omitted letters are transferred to the boundary of the grid to create 11 words clued by misprinted definitions (spelling WATERSTONE'S), each formed by removing one letter (spelling PLAYWRIGHTS) from a playwright and jumbling the remainder."
3431	11/10/1997	Three writers	Mr Lemon	143	2	"Five answers omit PEN on entry; remaining clues are LL, spelling 'THEY COME AS A BOON AND A BLESSING TO MEN'. Unclued lights are PICKWICK and WAVERLEY; OWL is to be highlighted in central squares."
3432	18/10/1997	Alibi II	Fenrix	225	4	"Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light."
3433	25/10/1997	Primes IV: Four Halves	Piccadilly	100	2	"Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these, a different correspondence being used for across clues in the top and bottom halves and down clues in the left and right halves. Each base from 2 to 11 is used for one row and one column."
3434	01/11/1997	The Albingate Murder	Cheiron	169	2	"Most clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling SAIC, JET, TERN, DOW, WING, BRIG, PACKET, MAN, SHIP, HOPPER, ARK, PROA; these together with KETCH must all be omitted from remaining answers on entry, the disappearances occurring within THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (anagram of title) framed by FLORIDA, THE BAHAMAS, CUBA (all to be shaded in grid)."
3435	08/11/1997	Contributions	Blank	210	1	"Most clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling 'WITH POMP OF WATERS UNWITHSTOOD UNTO THE OCEAN'. Central row is THE RIVER THAMES, with various tributaries running into it vertically: STAMFORD, BEVERLEY, WANDLE, WESTBOURNE, TYBURN, FLEET, WALBROOK, NECKINGER, RAVENSBOURNE, LEA, BECKTON, CROSSNESS; where each does so, a letter or a sum of two letters is placed at the end of the light to contribute."
3436	15/11/1997	Potiores?	Petti	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell TO RESOLVE NUMEROUS AMBIGUITIES, SCAN DIAGRAM FOR KEYS INSIDE IT; down NE-SW diagonal there are two possibilities for each square, each giving lights satisfying the clues, but the preferred versions yield KEYS INSIDE IT."
3437	22/11/1997	The Message	MynoT	169	2	"Answers lose letters (not necessarily consecutive) on entry, spelling moves in a game of chess; the final move Bh6 (checkmate) is to be written beneath the grid."
3438	29/11/1997	A Jigsaw Puzzle	Radix	144	1	"Grid is blank and to be filled with jigsaw pieces, each containing the name of a saw (or EPIGRAM); each row contains two lights."
3439	06/12/1997	Cargo	Sabre	169	2	Some lights are jumbled; others have one word jumbled in their clues; unclued lights are items brought by the JUMBLIES.
3440	13/12/1997	Hard One?	Calmac	210	2	"Clues (except first and last) are MP, spelling 'DIEU ME PARDONNERA. C'EST SON M?TIER' - HEINE; perimeter contains 'DORT, WO MAN B?CHER VERBRENNT, VERBRENNT MAN AUCH AM ENDE MENSCHEN'."
3441	20/12/1997	A Christmas Puzzle	Smokey	216	2	"Some answers are entered with extra letters, spelling 'WHO WRITES THOSE LOVELY CRACKER MOTTOES?'; remaining clues are LL, spelling I'M IT WITH XMAS CRACKERS; both lead to MAXIMIST, unclued central across light."	
3442	27/12/1997	Battle of the Sexes	Phi	144	2	Clues are headed 'Martial' (Across) and 'Marital' (Down); answers better suited to the other heading have two letters interchanged. Four unclued lights form 'NEC TECUM POSSUM VIVERE NEC SINE TE'.	
3443	03/01/1998	The Top Line	Obiter	182	2	"Top row is AURORA BOREALIS; other unclued lights are NORLAN, RUNIC, ORCADIAN, AUSTRAL, LAPP, INUIT, SEPTENTRIONAL, HEBRIDIAN, ARCTIC, SUOMI. Subsidiary indications involve an N if the light does not contain one, and ignore it if it does."	
3444	10/01/1998	8 Down 12 Down [Penultimate Subtraction]	Machiavelli	144	2	"Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented in penultimate position by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."	
3445	17/01/1998	Rogue Characters	Duck	144	2	"There are 3 types of clue: having an extra letter, MP, and DLM with extra letters in letter-mixtures. The letters concerned spell 'IN THY ORISONS BE ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED'; unclued lights are 'remembered' (i.e., rearranged) nymphs."	
3446	24/01/1998	Not Playing Fair	Waterloo	144	2	Four lights are Playfair-coded; in twelve clues one or two words must be decoded before the clue can be solved.	Double-acting
3447	31/01/1998	And All That	Uptodate	124	2	"Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for primes and squares, and clues are in terms of them; across clues also refer to dates."	
3448	07/02/1998	Op 20	Pabulum	144	2	"Some clues contain extra letters, spelling HORNY PLATES AT THE END OF FINGERS OR TOES (part of definition in Chambers' of NAILS); five answers lose TINGLE, PIN, TACK, BRAD, SPIKE on entry; seven others are the days of the week, replaced by words associated with them in a rhyme in Brewer concerning nail-paring. Main diagonal is NAIL SCISSORS."	
3449	14/02/1998	Work or Pen Name	Mordred	225	2	Twelve clues are book titles; the first names of the authors are unclued lights. (Title indicates PRAENOMEN.)	
3450	21/02/1998	Piano Piece	Bandmaster	182	1	"Most down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT'; remaining down clues have had an initial letter P moved to the beginning of the clue. Each row contains two lights; a P from the second is moved to the front of the first (all lights still being words), so that the first column consists entirely of the letter P. In the grid ERICH MARIA REMARQUE must be shaded."	
3451	28/02/1998	Dots on the Map	Peeper	225	1	"Grid is in the shape of Wales; lights run in any of four directions. In certain squares, to be filled with a dot, parts of lights combine to form placenames, correctly located."	
3452	07/03/1998	Anagrominoes	Bundle	56	1	"Grid is an arrangement of dominoes. 14 different consonants are assigned in 7 pairs to the number of dots on an end of a domino; each play must be accompanied by two words, one for each end, incorporating its consonant pair and as many as possible of those for neighbouring ends. Definitions are given of the words; the outlines of the dominoes must be added and the scores given."	
3453	14/03/1998	The Inbetweenies	Theod	144	2	"Nine lights are PORTMANTEAUX (1 Across), clued by the letters omitted from the two constituent words, e.g. UMSUB leads to SLURB."	
3454	21/03/1998	Mixed Pairs	Ploutos	169	2	Five 11-letter words (whose initial and final letters form MIXED and PAIRS respectively) have been arranged into two pairs of anagrams each; the longer words are unclued lights while the shorter are clued in alphabetical order.	
3455	28/03/1998	One-Time Pad	Dimitry	196	2	"Lights are entered using repeated identical knight's moves, continuing past the edge of the grid on the other side if necessary. Perimeter spells SEND TRANSFORMED TO NORMAL ACROSS AND DOWN: ONE ACROSS IS 'EDUCE'. The single answer not to appear in the transformed grid is CODE."	
3456	04/04/1998	Spot the Theme	Third Man	169	2	"Vertical bars are not given and must be inserted; when this is done 3456 appears in the bar-pattern in the top half. Unclued lights across are TWO TO POWER SEVEN TIMES THREE CUBED; four across answers lose THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX on entry; a central diamond contains THREE FOUR FIVE SIX (thus determining the content of two isolated squares."	
3457	11/04/1998	Locating Omissions	Adam	144	4	"Each answer loses between two and five consecutive letters on entry; the sum of the numerical values of the omissions, taken modulo 36, determines the grid number of the light."	
3458	18/04/1998	Bugs	Arcturus	167	2	"Most answers lose letters on entry, spelling 'TWO COUNTRIES DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE'; centre of central row is ENGLISH, central column is MID-ATLANTIC, and AMERICA and BRITAIN are down lights in the left and right halves respectively. Six answers, on the wrong side of the grid, are replaced by their appropriate equivalents, e.g. BISCUIT (left-hand side) becomes COOKIE."	
3459	25/04/1998	"Carte Blanche: No Tank's Strike (4, 7)"	Kea	150	2	"Grid is blank; clues contain superfluous words, most of which are from Australia or New Zealand, the other five having initial letters ANZAC; answers lose letters on entry, spelling SUCH A FREE-FOR-ALL IN OLD FRAY AS RAID ON HELLESPONT (a clue to OPEN SLATHER, also clued by title, found jumbled in shaded squares and to be written beneath the grid). In the grid GALLIPOLI, APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH, MCMXV appears."	
3460	02/05/1998	Web	Arachne	204	1	"Grid is a spider's web and is roughly circular; half the 6-letter radial lights are jumbled, with outermost letters being initial letters of superfluous words in clues. Third ring from centre contains COMPUTER, URL, MODEM, INTERNET; fifth ring contains BUTTERFLY, LADYBIRD, FLY, BUMBLEBEE, GRASSHOPPER, GNAT, MOTH."	
3461	09/05/1998	A Case in Point	Gos	144	4	One diagonal contains the Playfair-coded version of GRIMPEN - X - MIRE; two other diagonals contain Playfair-coded versions of HOLMES and WATSON; these diagonals must be decoded.	"Baskervil(le), Baker St."
3462	16/05/1998	Up for the Cup	Aldhelm	196	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'AND EVERY CHANCE BROUGHT OUT A NOBLE KNIGHT' - TENNYSON. Certain letters are ignored in subsidiary indications; these form four knight's paths starting at the corners of the grid and ending in central isolated squares, spelling PERCIVAL, MODRED, LANCELOT, GAWAIN."	
3463	23/05/1998	Trout Quintet	Nibor	225	2	"Most clues have a letter missing, which must be inserted in the answer to form the light; these spell PIANO, VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE BASS; five other clues have T and R omitted from a word in the definition, while in the remaining five the answer must be treated similarly on entry. Unclued lights are five types of trout together with 'DIE FORELLE', 'IN EINEM BACHLEIN HELLE', SCHUBART (the author of the poem)."	
3464	30/05/1998	Hell's Pells	Oyler	49	2	Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to Pell's equation  X? - YZ? = 1.	
3465	06/06/1998	World Cup 98	Phil Brindall	176	1R	"Grid is circular; puzzle concerns a computer simulation of the World Cup. The thirty-two 6-letter radial lights represent the teams, with letters advanced to show matches won, drawn and lost, goals for and against and points scored in the group stage. Circular lights represents the knock-out stages, with order of entry of lights determining winners. Unclued lights are URUGUAY, ITALY, GERMANY, BRAZIL, ENGLAND, ARGENTINA and the winner of the simulation, FIFTEEN."	
3466	13/06/1998	F-Fools	Franc	221	1	"Grid represents a cricket ground; no vertical bars are given, but the lights in each row have a multiple DLM clue, and in 11 squares components contribute to fielders FINE LEG, SLIP, LONG LEG, GULLY, KEEPER, COVER, SQUARE LEG, MID-WICKET, BOWLER, MID-ON, LONG OFF, replaced by M from the crossing down light."	
3467	20/06/1998	16D (9) 27 (9) [Aretinian Syllables]	Llig	225	2	"Across lights are jumbled; alternate rows of the grid, ignoring shaded squares, contain 'UT QUEANT LAXIS RESONARE FIBRIS MIRA GESTORUM FAMULI TUORUM, SOLVE POLLUTI LABII REATUM, SANCTE IOANNES', the source of ARETINIAN SYLLABLES (unclued)."	
3468	27/06/1998	The Plays of the Bard - V	Salamanca	144	2	In each row one light loses the letter G; nine answers lose final letters and are rearranged to form new words; LISTENER is unclued.	
3469	04/07/1998	Fourth of July	Mass	196	2	"The 13 original States of the Union occur as clues; in each case consecutive letters provide hints to the lights. Abbreviations of the 13 are removed from 13 answers; remaining clues are DLM with extra letters, spelling A CONSTITUTIONAL TAKEN BY UNCLE SAM."	
3470	11/07/1998	Rum Journey	Aragon	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in across and down clues lead to misprints of the lights; the misprints spell BY A CIRCUITOUS ROUTE UNDER DARK (leading to ENGLISH DRUNKARD), and 'THE SEXTON AND THE SQUIRE'. Ten other clues lead to words all containing B; their initial letters must have B (from normal lights) added or subtracted to form CHESTERTON diagonally, while they themselves are entered along bishop's moves, with the B falling in an extra square to be added below the grid; BIRMINGHAM and NIGHTTIME must also be highlighted."	
3471	18/07/1998	The Open: 19th Hole	Loda	144	1	"Grid is blank but 18 holes contain flags; each is to contain the final letter of a light ending in O, forming the holes of the course. Remaining clues are given in normal order; CLUBHOUSE is to be highlighted and its O marked with a flag to denote the 19th hole."	
3472	25/07/1998	Marital Progression	Gnivri	144	2	"Twelve answers lose a letter on entry, spelling an arrangement of FRANCIS BACON; unclued lights form 'WIVES ARE YOUNG MEN'S MISTRESSES, COMPANIONS FOR MIDDLE AGE, AND OLD MEN'S NURSES'."	
3473	01/08/1998	Chip Ruftoc [Sir Charles]	Mr Lemon	25	4	"Grid is a Playfair code-square, with the codeword entered in the central 3 x 3 square and remaining letters placed at random. 25 clues each lead to an 8-letter and a 4-letter word; the two halves of the former are to be separated and the sums of the numerical values multiplied; the product is then to be divided by the sum of the numerical values of the 4-letter word and the result reconverted to a letter. SIR CHARLES is to be written beneath the grid; preamble begins with the coded version of ... WHEATSTONE CREATED THIS CIPHER WHICH WAS CHAMPIONED BY LYON PLAYFAIR OF THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE."	
3474	08/08/1998	Word Deduction	The Tall'n	169	2	"Down clues are DLM; in each of the central nine rows one answer consists entirely of letters from the title, and is to be converted to numbers by replacing each of these ten letters by a different digit. The totals (including carries) of the digits in each column appear below the grid, and the numbers modulo 9 are given at the side, forming the coded form of COUNTDOWN; VORDERMAN appears diagonally immediately before or after each number, while the centre of the bottom row is CONUNDRUM."	
3475	15/08/1998	First Line Tribute To ...	Apex	176	1	"Just over half the clues are MP, spelling 'HEAR IT AGAIN' BY POET LAUREATE; unclued lights (including perimeter) form 'EVEN THE MOST MISFITTING CHILD WHO'S CHANCED UPON THE LIBRARY'S WORTH SITS WITH THE GENIUS OF THE EARTH AND TURNS THE KEY TO THE WHOLE WORLD'. Shaded squares may be arranged to form TED HUGHES."	
3476	22/08/1998	Fundamentally Flawed	Monk	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling WHO SAID 'I HAVE HAD A DREAM, PAST THE WIT OF MAN'? Down answers are entered 'BOTTOM UP': either with final letter raised or with a synonym of BOTTOM reversed."	
3477	29/08/1998	A Harrowing Time	Polymath	79	2	Numerical puzzle concerning a farmer's family and his fields.	
3478	05/09/1998	An Anthology	Serendip	143	1	"Top and bottom row contain 'A BUNCH OF OTHER MEN'S FLOWERS'; four down lights are scientists who gave their names to flowers (GARDEN, WEIGEL, FREES, BANKS), entered with letters in alphabetical order; other lights are clued in alphabetical order."	
3479	12/09/1998	Belt Up	MynoT	156	2	"Central unclued light is THE EQUATOR; in twelve squares parts of across and down lights contribute to form the signs of the zodiac, to be replaced by their signs."	
3480	19/09/1998	Clashing Pairs	Sabre	195	1	"Rows and columns are to be labelled by the letters of the alphabet, labels for rows forming THUMBSCREWING. There are no unchecked squares, but many contain clashes; in each case the row and column labelled by the clashing pair intersect in a square where there is no clash. In top and bottom rows this letter is to be used to resolve the clash, spelling 'EVER SUCH A CROSS-GRAINED BRUTE'; for remaining clashes the Across letter is entered."	
3481	26/09/1998	A Night at the Opera	Amicus	144	2	"Down clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling GEORGE GERSHWIN'S BIRTH. There are two lights in each row, and across clues are paired; one in each pair is LL, spelling 'PORGY AND BESS'; the other is a pair of subsidiary indications to a cat and a fish, with the cat being Playfair-coded as the light."	Rhapsody in Blue
3482	03/10/1998	Hidden Word	Bufo	144	2	"Grid is blank, with squares numbered from 1 to 144. Clues contain one or more superfluous words, which form a misprint of an indication of the number of the square where the light begins. Correct letters spell USE FIRST TWELVE TERMS IN FIBONACCI SERIES; letters in squares 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 spell OOPHORECTOMY, to be written beneath the grid."	
3483	10/10/1998	Easy PC	BeRo	231	1	"Grid represents a computer screen and three variously-sized windows, which must be superimposed in positions and an order to be determined. Eight 3- or 4-letter words (SORT, NEW, EXIT, FILE, RUN, CUT, MOVE, TEXT), defined by superfluous words in clues within one window, read through the windows from highest to lowest; each letter concerned is ignored in a subsidiary indication within the window or screen."	
3484	17/10/1998	Tacit Mystery	Elgin	144	2	"The four across answers in the top and bottom rows all contain MEN, to be jumbled on entry. All other lights have one letter encoded using a substitution cipher, the result being given by the crossing light. The central 6 x 6 square, to be shaded, contains the encoded forms of CRANKO, ASHTON, HOLMES, WATSON, FOKINE, PETIPA; decoded form of title (A SQUARE DANCE) is to be written beneath the grid."	
3485	24/10/1998	Dube Crossor II	Ascot	162	2	"There are two identical 9 x 9 grids, with clues at the same location paired. Each letter of the alphabet is paired with its symmetric opposite (AZ, BY, CX, ..., MN); in each double clue one answer loses a letter-pair on entry, with each grid losing the entire alphabet."	
3486	31/10/1998	A Marvellous Game	Columba	64	1	"Grid is a chessboard; the moves of a game are presented. Each light is entered along the moves of a piece or pawn; clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'THE GARDEN' BY ANDREW MARVELL. Grid (including blank squares) reads 'SUCH WAS THAT HAPPY GARDEN-STATE, WHILE MAN THERE WALKED WITHOUT A ...', concluded beneath the grid with MATE."	
3487	07/11/1998	No!	Ploutos	121	1	"Grid has 25 isolated squares in even-numbered rows and columns; each has a 9-letter light entered in the 3 x 3 square centred on it, and each contains a different letter so that a 5 x 5 magic square would be formed if each were replaced by its position in the alphabetical order of those used. Perimeter contains 'NO FRUITS, NO FLOWERS, NO LEAVES, NO BIRDS, - NOVEMBER!'."	
3488	14/11/1998	Pen Names	Smokey	143	2	"Ten across and all down clues are MP, spelling RUTH RENDELL'S ALTER EGO IS BARBARA VINE; the other 11 across lights have an unchecked letter replaced to form another word, the original letters being RUTHRENDELL and the replacements BARBARAVINE."	
3489	21/11/1998	Dreams	Rebel	144	4	"Some clues are LL, spelling 'CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE'; other clues contain extra letters, spelling RENE MAGRITTE (born 21/11/1898). Unclued lights are pipes which also have other meanings."
3490	28/11/1998	Combinations	Odds	121	2	"Numerical puzzle concerning binomial coefficients; the letters  A, B, C, ..., H, J, ..., Z  stand for the numbers 2 to 26 in some order and  a, b, c, ..., h, j, ..., z  for 1 to 25 similarly, and clues are in terms of them."
3491	05/12/1998	Conurbation	Schadenfreude	169	2	"Central row, unclued, is ARNOLD BENNETT; five answers TUNSTALL, BURSLEM, HANLEY, STOKE-ON-TRENT, LONGTON (clued without definition) are replaced by their fictional equivalents TURNHILL, BURSLEY, HANBRIDGE, KNYPE, LONGSHAW in Bennett's 'Five Towns' novels; the remaining town FENTON unused by Bennett is to be traced in the grid."
3492	12/12/1998	Crewel	Kea	169	2	"Each row contains two lights, given a double clue lacking definitions; half are formed by removing one letter from the answer, these being inserted in the others. All these lights are English placenames. Each column contains three words with clues run together and letters interleaved."
3493	19/12/1998	Stealth	Dimitry	118	1R	"No grid is provided; it must be constructed in the shape of a stealth bomber. All palindromic sections of odd length in answers are removed on entry; second row and column contain B-TWO OR NOT B-TWO, THAT IS THE QUESTION."
3494	26/12/1998	"4, 4, 4, 5 [Xmas Tree Doon Under]"	Plausus	144	2	"Four 2-letter lights have LL clues, spelling a jumble of XMAS; four other clues are MP, spelling a jumble of TREE; other words of the title appear in the grid. Unclued lights are New Zealand birds, whose alternate initial and final letters spell POHUTUKAWA, the New Zealand Christmas tree whose Latin name, METROSIDEROS TOMENTOSA MYRTACEAE, is to be shaded in the grid to form a Christmas tree and tub."
3495	02/01/1999	Treasure Quest	Samson	198	1	"Subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling JESUS CHRIST, BETHLEHEM, JUDAEA, HEROD, ISRAEL, MARY, JOSEPH, EGYPT. Perimeter contains FOLLOWING A * WISE MEN FROM THE EAST PRESENT THEIR GIFTS; in the grid BALTHAZAR, MELCHIOR, CASPAR appear in rows and must be reversed to follow a STAR, forming GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH in columns."
3496	09/01/1999	Miserable _________	Obiter	168	2	"Three limericks are given, the missing final word of each line being an unclued light. Fourteen clues have final words rhyming as in a Shakespearean sonnet; the locations of these lights are to be determined. Other clues, forming another limerick and various rhyming couplets, contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell CINNA (from the limerick, completing the title) and 'TEAR HIM FOR HIS BAD VERSES'."
3497	16/01/1999	Catch and Flip	Wiglaf	169	2	"Theme-words PSYCHO (POMP, TIC); REBECCA (LOLITA, TESS); ROPE (CORD, SEAL); TOPAZ (ZIRCON, OPAL). Title hints at HITCHCOCK."
3498	23/01/1999	Subvert	Pabulum	144	2	"Lights entering a certain 6 x 6 square (to be shaded) are jumbled; remaining clues contain extra letters, alternately in pairs and singly, spelling 'A GREEK INVOCATION TO CALL FOOLS INTO A CIRCLE'. The conjuror JAQUES (centre of bottom row) contributes DUCDAME three times, appearing in alternate rows in the shaded square, circling which appear TOUCHSTONE, TRINCULO, YORICK."
3499	30/01/1999	Shades	Alban	178	2	"Grid is blank; shaded squares contain 'DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN'; perimeter contains 'DAS RHEINGOLD', 'DIE WALKURE', 'SIEGFRIED', 'GOTTERDAMMERUNG'; RICHARD WAGNER is unclued."
3500	06/02/1999	Solvitur Ambulando	Phi	168	2	"Grid is blank; certain lights have spaces inserted to form the river Pregel passing through K?nigsberg, crossed by seven squares containing the letters of BRIDGES. Unclued lights are EULER, WOODY ALLEN (real name Allen K?nigsberg), KINGS MOUNT. Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell TO TRAVEL FROM Y TO Y USING EACH BRIDGE ONLY ONCE; to enable this, an X is to entered to form another bridge."
3501	13/02/1999	"Click, Twiddle & Prod"	A8 RGG	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose central 1, 2 or 3 letters spell '... THE GAME OF LIFE ... YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM ... YOUR SENSE ORGANS ... THE ENERGY PROCESS', leading to three methods of entry each applied to three answers: Turn On (reverse ON), Tune In (insert AIR, ARIA or MELISMA), Drop Out (remove EAN, FLAG or LAND). Main diagonal contains TIMOTHY LEARY."
3502	20/02/1999	A Different Convention	Waterloo	121	1	Grid is blank; each BLOCK or BAR in lights is replaced by a black square or a bar.
3503	27/02/1999	In the Gro(o)ve	Googly	133	4	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  stand for different integers, and clues are in terms of them. Asterisked clues have answers which must be altered according to 'TAKE FIVE'; unclued lights represent DAVE BRUBECK, PAUL DESMOND and JAZZ."
3504	06/03/1999	The Plays of the Bard - VI	Salamanca	144	2	"Unclued lights form 'MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE'; eight answers have kingdoms replaced by horses, while six lose horses."
3505	13/03/1999	Scans	Peeper	144	2	"Some squares contain two letters; unclued lights are defined by their checked letters, e.g. I _ D _ LE _ leads to I N D O LE NT."
3506	20/03/1999	Distinguished Company	Lato	169	2	"13 lights are associated with homophones of composers: (HANDEL) BAR, SCHINDLER'S (LISZT), CLEAR (ORFF), (LOEWE) LIFES, (PERI) MASON, (BLOCH) BUSTER, PAPER (BAX), (FRANCK) INCENSE, (BYRD) BATH, (HAYDN) SEEK, GREAT (BRITTEN), (TALLIS) MANIC, OVER (COATES). Clues define the full phrase and indicate the composer subsidiarily. A fourteenth (unclued) light is (BACH) (up) THE WRONG TREE."
3507	27/03/1999	Sea Change	Trev	144	1	"Most lights are jumbled, and in some cases digits are formed from their letters; grid then reads STATISTICS PLUS PERSONAL RECORD FOR LAST YEAR ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO SENDERS OF AN SAE AT LEAST 220 X 110 MM (OVERSEAS, STAMP EXEMPT) TO J.E. GREEN, 63 GREEN LANE, ST. ALBANS, HERTS. AL3 6HE."
3508	03/04/1999	Bellringers	Adam	144	2	"In 14 clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling OLGA, MASHA, IRENA, these being THE THREE SISTERS in the play by ANTON Chekhov. Three pairs of unclued lights form anagrams of RICHARD MASON, CHARLES MURRAY, EDGAR LINTON (characters from 'Jane Eyre', 'Agnes Grey' and 'Wuthering Heights' respectively); their initial letters must be shaded within the anagrams. The other unclued lights are BERTHA, MATILDA, ISABELLA (three sisters of the characters)."
3509	10/04/1999	X Marks the Spot	Aragon	144	1	"In 23 squares a Greek letter is formed by letters within or straddling answers, and must be replaced by the lower case letter, often cross-checked by a letter of similar appearance (e.g. OMEGA is crossed by W, NU by V). The one Greek letter not to be so treated, CHI, appears in the grid and must be shaded"
3510	17/04/1999	CP?	Politicaster	286	1	"There are two identical grids; at each location one clue gives both answers, to be entered as cyclic permutations."
3511	24/04/1999	1 Across and 28 Across [International Communication]	Franc	169	2	"25 clues contain superfluous words, associated with the words in the International Communication Call Sign Alphabet; the corresponding letters are to be inserted to form the words which are the lights. The one letter not so treated is V (VICTOR)."
3512	01/05/1999	Apprentice Piece	Psyche	169	2	"There are 3 types of clue: normal, PD, and with subsidiary indication leading to the answer with one letter misplaced."
3513	08/05/1999	Film Show	Loda	169	2	"Clues concern films and are presented in alphabetical order of answers; theme is FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER ROGERS, appearing in the shape of a TOP HAT and completing two isolated squares. Nine answers are significant words in the titles of their other films (RIO, DIVORCEE, ROBERTA, FLEET, TIME, SHALL, CAREFREE, CASTLE, BROADWAY). Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell HERMES PAN (from the nine leading to thematic lights) and 'IT WAS SAID HE GAVE HER CLASS, SHE GAVE HIM SEX APPEAL' (from the rest)."
3514	15/05/1999	Trivial?	Le Gallois	221	2	"Six unclued lights are members of trios; half the answers lose every third letter on entry (perimeter spells 'IT IS AN ANCIENT MARINER AND HE STOPPETH ONE (IN) THREE' - COLERIDGE); remaining clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell OMIT LETTERS AT INTERVALS OF THREE."
3515	22/05/1999	Minute Items	Emkay	56	2	"Grid is blank; clues lead to words from which names of chemical elements have been derived, the lights being their atomic numbers."
3516	29/05/1999	Bumps	Viking	144	2	Each across light is either one 9-letter word or two 5-letter words with a single-letter overlap; these are entered following the progress of boats in eight days of bumps. Central column is OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
3517	05/06/1999	Alpha-numerix II	Zag	163	2	"Outer corners of the grid contain a numerical puzzle, linked to the central portion by SIX-GUN becoming 6GUN, OVERWEIGHT becoming OVERW8, ONE-HORSE becoming 1HORSE, LEONINE becoming LEO9; these four words are suggested by four other answers (COLT, OBESE, PETTY, MANED). Central unclued light is LEXICOLOGISTS."
3518	12/06/1999	Call My Bluff	Pilcrow	121	2	"Each clue as given is really three clues, and there are three complete solution grids, each with perimeter containing 'WHAT I TELL YOU THREE TIMES IS TRUE' - LEWIS CARROLL; the correct one has the perimeter reading anti-clockwise, while in the other two it reads clockwise."
3519	19/06/1999	Fair Play	Cheiron	169	2	"Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters spell 'WHAT YOU LOSE ON THE SWINGS YOU GAIN ON THE ROUNDABOUTS' and SWINGS ENTERED AS ANAGRAMS, ROUNDABOUTS BACK TO FRONT respectively. Remaining clues are given in two groups, arranged by alphabetical order of light: in the first the letters of a word meaning 'advantage' are removed from the answer and the remainder rearranged to form the light; in the second one of the 'advantage' words is inserted to form another word, which is then entered reversed."
3520	26/06/1999	Tennis	Mynot	144	2R	"Grid is blank and represents a tennis court. Four games of mixed doubles are played; each light represents a shot, with the final letter of one the initial letter of the next in the rally. Where balls are overhit the final letters of lights are collected together to form WIMBLEDON."
3521	03/07/1999	Listener 3521	Corylus	90	1	"Grid is blank; when completed, the bar-pattern spells 'listener' (with the unchecked letters in the unclued first down light ICEBAG given by the letter equivalents of the number in the title)."
3522	10/07/1999	Remains to be Seen	Kea	144	2	"Initial letters of clues spell CLERIHEW DISCOVERED IN FAMOUS OXFORD MUSEUM. Each answer has one letter replaced by another on entry (in four cases the replacement is the same as the original), given by a crossing light; original letters followed by replacements spell 'IT WAS NOT NAPOLEON WHO FOUNDED THE ASHMOLEON; HE HARDLY HAD A CHANCE LIVING MOSTLY IN FRANCE'."
3523	17/07/1999	SIOM	Gioconda	144	2	"Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'NON SIRE, C'EST UNE GRANDE REVOLUTION'. Remaining clues occur in four groups and lead to the months of the French revolutionary calendar; the lights, whose locations are to be determined, are the English equivalents, and force misprints in 12 crossing lights."
3524	24/07/1999	Half and Half	Mr Lemon	144	2	"Half the clues are MP, spelling LETTER'S PLACE IN WORD; each remaining answer is encoded by advancing each letter the number of places in the alphabet given by its position in the word, e.g. MEDAL becomes NGGEQ."
3525	31/07/1999	A Game of 11 [Hopscotch]	Glow-worm	154	2	"Six unclued lights are words from which HOP has been removed; nine clues must lose a jumble of a stone before being solved; a 'hopscotch' path from bottom row to top, using one letter from each row including one from each light with 'destoned' clue; spells GRASSHOPPER; perimeter contains 'I SAW HER ONCE HOP FORTY PACES THROUGH THE PUBLIC STREET'."
3526	07/08/1999	Teaser	Merlin	120	2	"20 clues are MP, spelling TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Remaining clues have extra letters, which may be arranged to form CAT STEVENS; their answers (half of which are pairs of words) contain names for the sun, to be replaced by the letters of MOON SHADOW."
3527	14/08/1999	See you Later	__________ [Bogtrotter]	169	1	"Grid is hexagonal, with lights entered in any of six directions; in 10 hexagons, forming a path from top to bottom, lights contribute to form a TUSSOCK, to be replaced by the letters of BOGTROTTER so as to form seven bog plants reading across and one diagonally."
3528	21/08/1999	Button	Mass	204	1	"Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, entered with one letter removed and placed in the outermost circle, which contains EVERY RADIAL ANSWER IS A BUTTON SHORT, I.E., IT IS NOT ALL THERE. One circle contains LOOSE SCREW and LOOSE SLATE; another contains DOTTY, UNHINGED, LOCO, BARMY, SHORT-WITTED, MADBRAINED, MANIC."
3529	28/08/1999	Bunged Up	Radix	88	3R	"Numerical puzzle; grid is hexagonal with some hexagons shaded. Each clue concerns a triangle with one vertex, indicated by a letter, being a shaded hexagon, the angle there being either 60? or 120?; the length of the opposite edge is given, and the lengths of the two edges including the vertex are to be entered suitably positioned. Orientation is determined by having BUNG read upwards; shaded hexagons in the perimeter may be completed so that they contain DERMATOGLYPHICS."
3530	04/09/1999	Not Much ...	Plausus	135	1	"Across clues contain misprinted, omitted or inserted letters, spelling CYNIC, WILDE; four down answers lose PRICE, RATE, WORTH, COST. In central 5 x 11 block lights are 3-, 4- or 5-letter, given hints in alphabetical order in rows according to initial letters and entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally; read boustrophedon from bottom to top it contains 14 words for policemen with various letters omitted, which when read in normal order form FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPIFICATION (to be written beneath the grid, along with COP completing the title)."
3531	11/09/1999	Sabre's Garden	Sabre	169	2	"Grid represents a garden divided into four corners by one horizontal and one vertical grid line, with different methods of entry for lights beginning in each corner: normal, 'shady' (with a word meaning SUN removed), jumbled, and coded (using a substitution cipher). One square in the jumbled corner contains the letters of CACTUS, to be replaced by a drawing."
3532	18/09/1999	Hot Nite (with a bit of jazz)	Smokey	144	2	"Clues are LL, spelling 'THE JOINT IS JUMPIN'' - THOMAS WRIGHT WALLER; corner squares contain 'FATS', while unclued lights are jumbles of JOINTs."
3533	25/09/1999	Check out the Theme	Schadenfreude	156	2	"In 11 lights the unchecked letters may be arranged to form 'OUT, DAMNED SPOT!', to be written beneath the grid; their clues contain superfluous words defining types of SPOT, jumbles of which are to be removed from 11 other answers"
3534	02/10/1999	The Conclusion	Rebel	169	1R	"Grid is blank with numbers to indicate initial or final letters of lights, entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally; clues to diagonal lights contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ALL UPPER CASE. In 13 squares clashing letters may be arranged to form names of Greek letters, to be entered in upper case; when shaded these squares form a capital OMEGA."
3535	09/10/1999	Eat Liberally	Ascot	169	2R	"Clues are given in alphabetical order; apart from those in the perimeter, symmetrically opposite lights have double clues with one of each pair MP, the misprinted letter being entered in the central row or column to form KEEP THE WOLF FROM THE DOOR."
3536	16/10/1999	What on Earth?	Bufo	133	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are 7-letter, entered with central letter in numbered hexagon and remainder in surrounding six. Numbered hexagons spell GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, CO. ANTRIM, NORTHERN IRELAND; perimeter contains 'WORTH SEEING, YES; BUT NOT WORTH GOING TO SEE' - JOHNSON."
3537	23/10/1999	An Open Book	Tiger	144	2R	"Grid is blank; completed grid contains three blank squares and 'DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA' arranged as in the crest of Oxford University, to be outlined."
3538	30/10/1999	Which?	BeRo	169	1	"18 clues lead to homophones of the lights, whose locations are to be determined and whose initial letters spell MARIA GAETANA AGNESI, the formulator of the WITCH curve; one such curve passes through squares containing WHICH, WICH, OR WITCH, OR WYCH?, of which WITCH is to be shaded."
3539	06/11/1999	Hwyl	Leo	165	2	"Grid represents the national stadium at Cardiff for the final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup. There are 4 types of clues: Line-out (answer omits LINE on entry), Switch (two consecutive letters are transposed), Miss-move (answer omits central one or two letters, which spell JEREMY GUSCOTT), and Ruck (answer is jumbled). Unclued central row is OUTSIDE-HALF; in central column jumbles of (B)ARRY JOHN and NAAS (B)OTHA stretch out to score tries, with the H forming the posts in each case."
3540	13/11/1999	Happy Event	The Tall'n	188	1R	"Grid represents a wall with a central hole, surrounded by BERLIN WALL WAS OPENED. Clues to each row apart from top and bottom define the (overlapping) lights and indicate the whole row subsidiarily; 6- or 7-letter lights are entered around numbered squares, two of these being COLD WAR and ENDING (unclued). Perimeter contains 'FREUDE' - 'DEINE ZAUBER BINDEN WIEDER WAS DIE MODE STRENG GETEILT'; numbered squares contain 'ALLE MENSCHEN WERDEN BRUDER'."
3541	20/11/1999	Initials	Noggs	180	1	"Lights with initial letters in TYPO, DEVIL or ANAGRAM have MP, PD or DLM clues respectively, the remainder being normal; MP clues spell 'SILLY OLD BEAR', while initial letters of DLM clues spell WINNIE THE POOH. Grid represents the map at the start of the book; shaded squares contain BALDER ('Bee Tree'), PIT ('Sandy Pit where Roo Plays'), VI PINES ('Six Pine Trees'), GIN ('Pooh Trap for Heffalumps'), CAKER WOOD ('100 Aker Wood'), CARR ('Floody Place'); three lights appropriately placed are WAYZGOOSE ('Nice for Piknicks'), BOREAL ('To North Pole', with EXPOTITION leading to it), DISMAL ('Eeyore's Gloomy Place - Rather Boggy and Sad'). Isolated squares, correctly placed, contain initial letters of KANGA, RABBIT, POOH, ME, OWL, PIGLET, WOOZLE, EEYORE, in each case with the rest of the name leading from it in some direction; 'DRAWN BY ME AND MR SHEPARD HELPD' is to be written beneath the grid."
3542	27/11/1999	Digittallies	Pie	100	2	"Numerical puzzle; the twenty-four 2-digit lights are the numbers from 20 to 43, and clues are in terms of them."
3543	04/12/1999	The Well-Tempered Clavier	Bandmaster	144	2	"The rows and columns are labelled by the 24 keys (12 major and 12 minor); each contains two lights representing a prelude and a fugue, the latter being jumbled; in major keys the prelude omits the key while in minor keys the fugue does so. Clues are in pairs, in alphabetical order of the preludes; ten contain superfluous words defining SHARP or FLAT and beginning with the relevant key. One square contains AND, replaced by &; squares to be shaded contain J.S. BACH, 'FORTY-EIGHT PRELUDES & FUGUES'."
3544	11/12/1999	Look - No Hands!	Phi	129	1	"Grid contains just horizontal bars; each row is to have one vertical bar inserted. Each column apart from the central one (unclued) has a double clue; of the two lights, one is jumbled and the other has a letter transferred to an upper row (containing PIANO-PLAYERS), whose squares are displaced so as to lie above the vertical lines of the grid. Taking vertical bars in order of rows, the squares of the upper row lying above them spell PAPILLONS (to be written beneath the grid along with R. SCHUMANN in central column)."
3545	18/12/1999	An Unusual Symmetry	Waterloo	225	1	"Grid is blank; when complete the letters, though not the bars, exhibit 180? symmetry."
3546	01/01/2000	Millennium	Schadenfreude	169	2	"21 squares, forming a large letter M, contain portions of lights which may be arranged to form MEMBER, MADAM, MAIDEN, METRE, MARRIED, MESO-, EMMA, EM, MILE, NOON, MALE, META-, MEGA, AM, MALTA, MAC, MONEY, MASS, MARK, MILLE, MEDIUM; each such square is to contain M."
3547	08/01/2000	Remorse	Obiter	169	2	"Unclued lights are CHOPIN, RIVLIN (shoes); XEBEC, TRIREME (ships); SHELLAC, BEESWAX (sealing-wax); PE-TSAI, SAVOY(cabbages); MPRET, NEGUS (kings); GLOBAL WARMING (why the sea is boiling hot) and PIGS MIGHT FLY (whether pigs have wings). Grid contains WALRUS."
3548	15/01/2000	Pig-in-the-middle	Machiavelli	256	4	"24 answers contain a pair of consecutive letters two apart in the alphabet (taken to be cyclic), to be replaced by the letter separating them, e.g. MAJLIS becomes MAKIS."
3549	22/01/2000	Why?	Adam	144	2	"There are 4 types of clues: normal; with subsidiary indication involving an extra Y; with light formed by rearranging letters of answer less Y; and with the light formed by rearranging the letters of one word of the clue after a Y has been replaced by a character from 'Henry IV, Part 2' (the rest of the clue containing a definition of another such light)."
3550	29/01/2000	Ten DIYs	Kea	156	2	"Ten answers are not entered but form EACH THEMATIC CLUE EMPLOYS METHOD SPELLED OUT IN CONCLUSION AMONG REMAINING ONES; final letters of other clues spell 'THERE IS A DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS'. Rearranging final letters of words in thematic clues leads to the real lights, which are gods; treating the quotation in the same way gives SATYRESS, to be highlighted in the grid."
3551	05/02/2000	Give and Take	Poat	169	2	"15 across answers lose, and 15 down answers gain, the letters of BIRTHDAY PRESENT on entry; remaining clues are DLM with extra letters in letter-mixtures, spelling GENETHLIACON; unclued lights are XENIUM, POTLACH, DEODATE, CADEAU."
3552	12/02/2000	Edgewise	Loda	146	1	"Across answers are entered with one letter in the row above; reading upwards these spell THE ADVANTAGE (in left side) OVER ME AND YOU (in right side). Down answers are entered with one letter moved upwards; clues either contain or have subsidiary indications involving extra letters; when moved up one place in the alphabet, these spell HIGHLIGHT THIRTY SQUARES, these being ONEUPMANSHIP in a column crossed by STEPHEN MEREDITH POTTER (born 01/02/1900)."
3553	19/02/2000	Latent Hints	Peeper	140	2	"20 letters in the grid are ignored in subsidiary indications, spelling MEND, BAT, FLARE, LASH, MEAN, which hint at the perimeter, containing A STITC(H IN T)IME, SAC(HIN T)ENDULKAR, FLAS(H IN T)HE PAN, PITC(H INT)O, WIT(H INT)ENT."	
3554	26/02/2000	Preamble Only	Piccadilly	169	2	"Numerical puzzle with no clues; all information required to solve it, such as the fact that all lights are palindromes, is contained in the preamble. Main diagonal contains 3122151251919, i.e., CLUELESS."	
3555	04/03/2000	Crash Landing	Mespot	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling CARNIVAL, FASTNACHT, MARDI GRAS, SHROVE TUESDAY. Five clues without definition lead to BLINIS, OMELETTE, TACO, FLAPJACK, CREPES, entered with first half upwards and second half downwards next to it (representing the tossing of pancakes); unclued lights are FLOUR, EGGS, MILK, SALT."	
3556	11/03/2000	Singular Characters	MynoT	169	2	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of reversals of answers; 12 squares contain portions of answers which unite to form names of symbols, entered as such, e.g. the final square of both POLYP and SOLUS contains +."	
3557	18/03/2000	What's the Title?	Alban	169	2	All lights are French; down lights are jumbled. The title LES MOTS CROIS?S appears in 14 lettered squares.	
3558	25/03/2000	Carte Blanche Alphabetical Jigsaw	Corylus	225	2	"Grid is blank, to be completed Times-style; clues are in both alphabetical and numerical order of lights, with begin with the 26 letters of the alphabet."	
3559	01/04/2000	Playfair	Dolos	169	2	"Preamble contains seven sentences, each in fact a clue to one of the 'unclued' lights; central row consists of unchecked letters forming APRIL FOOL'S DAY (anagram of title and setter)."	
3560	08/04/2000	Trainspotter	Dimitry	225	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling GRYF-POTTER-FINDOR, SLYTHERIN, RAVENCLAW, HUFFLEPUFF; unclued lights down are all trains, including HOGWARTS EXPRESS from platform 9? (which grid number is therefore to be entered)."	
3561	15/04/2000	I'm Still Around	Apex	144	2	"Each answer loses two letters on entry, spelling WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LETTERS LATENT AS AN ELEGANT DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES? - DIMITRY."	
3562	22/04/2000	A Literary Production	Syd Lexis	225	2	"Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'VARIETY'S THE VERY SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOUR'. Nine clues, whose initial letters spell POTPOURRI (to be written beneath the grid), either define two words of which one loses a letter to form the second (the light), or are MP, the letters concerned spelling MIXED STEW. Three clues are DLM, with one word of each being 'petals', 'leaves' and 'spices'; unclued lights are OLLA-PODRIDA, MEDLEY, HOTCH-POTCH, MISCELLANY."	
3563	29/04/2000	__ BACK [Go]	Qadi	212	1	"Grid has all squares numbered except for some blacked out; lights are entered letter by letter. Completed grid initially contains NOW STRIKE THIS TEXT AND IN PLACE GET PART OF POEM DEFINED BY LAST FIFTEEN MIXED SYMBOLS; THESE ARE IN CODE AND THE ANSWERS IN SEQUENCE TO CLUES IN ITALICS CODE 'LCMN KTNSHT KLTAFZ'. NOW SOLVE TWO ACROSTICS - CLUES ET AL. 'HOEIREOVIBDE203'. The Playfair-coded symbols yield IN ODQ KEY POEM: 203 (the passage forming the final grid begins at line 203 of 'Macflecknoe', a satirical attack upon Thomas Shadwell). Initial letters of clues decode as PUN TITLE USING SOLUTION OF OTHER ACROSTIC, those of lights as WHAT IS NAME OF T.S. IN ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL? - answer is OG, suggesting completion of title."	Macflekno
3564	06/05/2000	Punch Line	Mr Lemon	78	1R	"Grid appears inside a boiled egg with top removed; clues are purely definitions given in alphabetical order of lights. The key is the phrase 'PARTS OF IT ARE EXCELLENT', taken from the Punch cartoon introducing the phrase 'curate's egg'; each light may be formed from its last three words."	
3565	13/05/2000	Dressing Down	Radix	144	2	"In eight clues Z has been replaced by another letter, spelling 'KING LEAR'; in four others it has been removed. Each row or column has a pair of clues in no particular order; two 4-letter lights in each corner are Playfair-coded, forming other words. The answer FRIGHT is replaced by its coded form REBUKE in isolated squares; 'THOU WHORESON' appears in the shape of a Z in the centre of the grid, enabling remaining isolated squares to be filled."	
3566	20/05/2000	Plays of the Bard - VII	Salamanca	144	2	Top row contains 'OUT ON YOU OWLS'; nine answers lose jumbles of OWL on entry. Top of first and bottom of last column contain 'OFF WITH HIS HEAD'; other unclued lights are men's names without an initial letter G.	
3567	27/05/2000	Special Agents' Cipher	Aedites	121	1	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  stand for the primes from 2 to 101 in some order, and clues are the expressions for the lights as products of them. Answers are enciphered using an additive 7-digit key using arithmetic modulo 10 in each position. (Down clues, originally inadvertently omitted, were supplied the following week.)"	
3568	03/06/2000	Clotted Cream	Samson	144	2	"Each down light is given two clues, one genuine and one leading to a bogus answer; alternate letters of the latter spell 'THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE' - WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT, ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN. All across lights are unclued; four of them form 'THEY ARE ALL NOBLEMEN WHO HAVE GONE WRONG', describing the remainder, which are jumbles of COUNT, THANE, DUKE, MARGRAVE, BARON, VISCOUNT, SEIGNIOR, BOYAR, VAVASOUR, EARL, MARQUIS, SHEIK."	
3569	10/06/2000	"Frankly, Mr _____ly, ____ is Murder [Shank, Meat]"	Meursault	196	2	"Unclued lights 'A SUMMER IN SKYE', 'BEDSIDE JUMPING', 'THE FROG PRINCE', 'THE DEVIL'S WALTZ' are titles of works by authors with surname SMITH. Main diagonal and two adjacent squares, indicated by a dotted line, contains a jumble of INEXTINGUISHABLE, suggested by 'There is a LIGHT that never GOES OUT' (to be written beneath the grid); in 20 squares there is a clash between M and R. The lead singer MORRISSEY of THE SMITHS suggests SEY (also to be written beneath the grid) is the equivalent of the clashing letters."
3570	17/06/2000	Mission	Pilcrow	225	2	"One clue in each row and column has subsidiary indication involving an extra letter; those from across clues spell 'FIND LIVINGSTONE', said by JAMES GORDON BENNETT JUNIOR to HENRY MORTON STANLEY; the name appears in a diagonal and must be shaded. Extra letters from down clues, in column order, spell ONE PETER TWO FOUR (to be written beneath the grid), a reference including 'Come to him, to that LIVING STONE ...'."
3571	24/06/2000	Misery	Sabre	169	2	"Each answer is entered with two misprints; the first spell SABRE 'HAS LOVELY MOMENTS BUT AWFUL QUARTERS OF AN HOUR' and the second SABRE 'A DE BEAUX MOMENTS, MAIS DE MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURES'."
3572	01/07/2000	Balance	Mass	144	2	"28 answers gain or lose a word or abbreviation for a coin or currency; subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spelling DRAWINGS (Across) and DEPOSITS (Down)."
3573	08/07/2000	03-Apr	Monk	144	2	"3 Down and 4 Across, clued without definition, are PARTIAL JUMBLING; other clues are MP, spelling THE REQUIRED AUTHOR IS WILFRED THESIGER. Rearranging the letters in each row of the south-east quarter of the grid yields CLEAR THIS AREA AS PER MAPS IN 'ARABIAN SANDS'; the grid is to be submitted with this area blank so as to form an 'Empty Quarter'."
3574	15/07/2000	Old Sixpence	Mordred	169	2	"Grid is blank with starting squares of lights indicated; central row, unclued, contains 'METAMORPHOSES' (title is a clue to OVID), while 12 answers are names of those who were transformed, the lights being their changed forms, e.g. PROCNE becomes SWALLOW. (One such answer is GREGOR who became a BEETLE in Kafka's version.)"
3575	22/07/2000	Home and Away	Nibor	144	2	"Grid is blank; lights are paired together in numerical order, and given double clues which comprise two definitions together with an anagram of the lights combined. Top row contains INDOOR and ABROAD."
3576	29/07/2000	The 48	Dimitry	165	2	"Each of the 48 answers is entered as a Prelude (the initial letter) and Fugue; the subject of the latter is the remainder, and the Fugue is formed by adding it to itself repeatedly with successive shifts. Central column contains JOHANN S. BACH and central row PRWIDHMNBFLGNIN (i.e., PRELUDE AND FUGUE entered in the same fashion as the lights)."
3577	05/08/2000	5d [Imbrications]	Auctor	156	1R	"Eight across lights are pairs of overlapped words, e.g. DETERMINERALS; their clues consist of two definitions and a subsidiary indication to the whole. Remaining lights are clued in pairs with their mirror-images in the vertical axis; across lights have double clues which sometimes have combined subsidiary indications,while one clue in each down pair is MP, spelling OVERLAPPED."
3578	12/08/2000	Turnip and Beans	Phi	132	2	"Each subsidiary indication ignores three consecutive letters, one of which is to be omitted, spelling STRAWBERRY TOMATO, KIWI FRUIT, CARAMBOLA; unclued lights are CAPE, CHINESE, COROMANDEL (types of gooseberries)."
3579	19/08/2000	Quantum Theory	Verbascum	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'WHEN I PLAY WITH MY CAT, WHO KNOWS WHETHER SHE ISN'T ...'. Answers containing double letters have one excluded, spelling ALBERT EINSTEIN, author of perimeter quotation 'JEDENFALLS BIN ICH ?BERZEUGT, DASS DER NICHT W?RFELT'; remaining lights are jumbled."
3580	26/08/2000	FxOxG	ITR+ [149]	76	2	"Numerical puzzle; the letters of EIGHTY-FOUR stand for the digits 0123456789. There are 3 types of clue: normal, with letters in answers replaced by digits; products, e.g. HxHxH leads to 3 x 3 x 3 = 27; words with missing letters represented by x, whose numerical versions form the light, e.g. CxSxAxE leads to OTT (COSTATE) which gives 744."
3581	02/09/2000	Ze Sekond Fon Freaks Puzl	BeRo	144	2	"Five phases of spelling reform, the first given and the remainder to be discovered, are progressively introduced: hard C to K and soft C to S, PH to F, double letters written singly, final silent E omitted, and TH to Z. The grid is divided by dotted lines into five regions; clues use the spelling according to the latest region entered by their lights."
3582	09/09/2000	25 Across [Rule Britannia]	MynoT	169	2	"21 squares are ignored in subsidiary indications; they contain EEFF EFEDCB in top half of grid and GFECFDGFEDC in bottom, positioned as the notes on the stave, forming the first part of the tune of 'RULE BRITANNIA'."
3583	16/09/2000	The Five Ks	Charybdis	169	1R	"Clued lights are jumbled; ten others, taken in three pairs and a foursome, form anagrams of ingredients of cocktails SCREWDRIVER, DAIQUIRI, SIDECAR, MANHATTAN, arranged to form a cocktail glass. The fifth cocktail TOM COLLINS appears in lettered squares, with a jumble of its ingredients filling the glass; an isolated square contains a cherry."
3584	23/09/2000	Take Five	Tea Leaves	144	1	"Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 8 directions, and reflect at edges back along the original path with the later letters replacing the earlier ones. Perimeter (read anticlockwise) contains LOCATE A SIX BY FOUR RECTANGLE TO DISCOVER THE NUMBER; the rectangle concerned contains SEX FOR SEVEN IS FIVE TOO MANY, a mnemonic for the telephone number 64752."
3585	30/09/2000	Tiger Hunt	Bufo	128	2	"There are two identical grids; letters are divided into two groups (those with a closed loop and those without) and each light is split between the grids accordingly. Each answer loses a letter on entry, ignored in the subsidiary indication, spelling LEAGUE SOCCER TEAM (Across) and NOTHING TO SHADE IN (Down); main diagonal of one grid contains HULL CITY (nickname The Tigers), the unique team in the Football League with no letters having closed loops."	
3586	07/10/2000	Circumnavigation	Gioconda	144	2	"17 squares contain portions of lights which contribute to names of stations on the Circle Line, appropriately located, to be entered as their initial letters."	
3587	14/10/2000	IEEOO [Listener Crossword]	IOA	50	2	Grid is blank; the 25 answers begin with different letters (X not being used). Only vowels are entered; clues are given in alphabetical order of lights.	
3588	21/10/2000	Franc Spots the Join	Franc	169	1	"Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 4 directions. Ten squares contain portions of lights which contribute to names of cities in California, to be represented by dots; the vertical line between fourth and fifth columns is a solid bar and represents the San Andreas Fault, with lights crossing it being translated one row up or down according to the direction of entry."	
3589	28/10/2000	Ex Dividend	Ricshaw	169	2	"Clues are MP, with misprints and correct letters spelling IT'S FIVE HUNDRED AFTER START OF SERIES INSIDE 'THE TIMES' and 'UNDERSTANDING IN THINE HEART WHICH SHALL NOT BE PUT OUT' respectively; the first leads cryptically to ESDRAS (contained in a 3 x 2 block in grid), the source of the second. Clashes in certain squares are resolved by either multiplying or dividing the letters, using arithmetic modulo 26, the results being X or D appropriately, forming a large version of each letter."	
3590	04/11/2000	Here and Now	Ix	168	2	"Clues are to be taken in pairs, with one in each pair being LL, spelling TIMES LISTENER CROSSWORD, the other answer having the letter concerned inserted to form the light."	
3591	11/11/2000	Wotcher Mate	Lato	169	2	"11 misprinted definitions, with misprinted letters spelling TEAM CHANGES, lead to lights which are anagrams of football teams; FOSTER (from Nottingham FOREST) and COTTONS (from NOTTS CO.) are to be shaded."	
3592	18/11/2000	One Hit Wonder	Ploutos	169	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'FORGET IT, LOUIS, NO CIVIL WAR PICTURE EVER MADE A NICKEL'. Sixteen across lights are formed from the answers by removing a letter and rearranging the remainder; the letters removed spell MARGARET MITCHELL and two of the lights are GONE and WITH; unclued lights are BOREAS (top row), NOTUS (bottom row), ZEPHYRUS (leftmost column), EURUS (rightmost column)."	
3593	25/11/2000	Rec Dec	Tangent	121	4	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  a, b, c, ..., z  stand for the numbers from 1 to 26, and clues are in terms of them. Lights are formed from recurring decimals by removing decimal points and giving repetends once only."	
3594	02/12/2000	Kenweed	Schadenfreude	169	2	"Subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling 'THE START, MIDDLE AND END NEED NOT BE IN THAT ORDER'; 25 answers are film titles, treated appropriately to form the lights, e.g. GREMLINS becomes SLINGREM, SITTING PRETTY becomes SITTINETTYGPR."	
3595	09/12/2000	DIY Christmas Card	Loda	169	2	"Grid is blank; some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell BLOCK IN O FOR ROBIN'S RED EYE; remaining lights include blank squares, which when joined by lines form a robin. MERRY CHRISTMAS appears in two rows and is to be written in red."	
3596	16/12/2000	He and She	Plausus	143	1	"Grid is almost blank, with rows and columns labelled by letters and numbers respectively; lights are entered letter by letter, some in upper case and some in lower. Most rows contain letters ignored in subsidiary indications, forming most of 'plath/HUGHES' read upwards, the two letters H being represented by hearts. A maze is to be created such that the path tracing it contains creatures (upper case) divided by reversed names of characters transformed into them (lower case) in Hughes' recreation of parts of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', e.g. SPIDenhcaraER. Certain pairs of squares are linked by arrows; Playfair-coded versions of the letter-pairs are given, the codephrase completing the title 'IS THERE NO WAY OUT ...?'  to form a line of Plath's poetry."	Of the mind
3597	23/12/2000	Barbershop Quartet	Psyche	225	2	"19 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell the quartet TILL, RAZOR, SOAP, MIRROR; clues are LL, spelling the links REFLECTOR, EASTENDERS, ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA, EULENSPIEGEL; perimeter lights are SIR ISAAC NEWTON, BARBARA WINDSOR, RICHARD STRAUSS, WILLIAM OF OCCAM."	
3598	30/12/2000	The Rest?	Viking	196	2	"6 clues are single words in capitals; replacing the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  by 1 followed by the primes from 2 to 97 and forming products gives the years of the battles NASEBY, NILE, OUDENARDE, PAVIA, FLODDEN, TRAFALGAR, which are the lights. Other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell LAGOS, BRUNANBURGH, MALDON, LEPANTO, SARATOGA, QUIBERON BAY, whose years have prime factors larger than 97. Centre of main diagonal contains HASTINGS, which would be clued by BANG (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3599	06/01/2001	On Tap	Smokey	144	2	"Across clues are LL, spelling TRADITIONAL PANTOMIME; subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling MUG, POPULAR, PHARMACIST, suggesting PUSS IN BOOTS, appearing at 1 Across as BO-PUSS-OTS; other unclued lights are LACE-CHAT-UPS, COTHUR-MOG-NI, DM-MOUSER-S, BUS-CAT-KINS, WELLI-TOM-ES."	
3600	13/01/2001	Cover Story	Glow-Worm	169	2	"Top and bottom rows contain ARTHUR C. CLARKE and 'A SPACE ODYSSEY'; squares containing clashes or unchecked A or O (not in the perimeter) are to be filled with BLACK HOLES, forming 2001. Taking alternate initial and final letters of clues, and rearranging the letters within each word, spells 'IF AN ELDERLY BUT DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST ...' (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3601	20/01/2001	Congratulations	Syd Lexis	208	2	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of lights and contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ''WHAT DO YOU READ, MY LORD?' 'WORDS, WORDS, WORDS'' - 'HAMLET', W. SHAKESPEARE (the play having been completed c. 1601); central three rows of grid contain CHAMBERS' TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (first published under that title in 1901)."
3602	27/01/2001	19 Across 54 Across [Subcutaneous Abstractions]	Machiavelli	196	4	"Each of 26 lights can be augmented in both second and penultimate positions, in each case by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light."
3603	03/02/2001	Aleatoric?	Arcturus	144	2	Six squares along SW-NE diagonal contain sequences of the form _OR_; making one choice leads to THE TRAP - ERASE read from SW to NE; the correct choice gives ENTRY PERFECT read from NE to SW.
3604	10/02/2001	Inigo	Obiter	169	2	"Unclued lights (and corner squares read clockwise) are Italian composers less a final -INI, together with words from the titles of their works: CHERUB(INI) - WATER CARRIER; PAGAN(INI) - CAPRICE; TART(INI) - DEVIL'S TRILL; BELL(INI) - NORMA; ROSS(INI) - BARBER; PUCC(INI) - TOSCA."
3605	17/02/2001	Kid's Stuff	Radix	216	2	"Grid comprises six 6 x 6 squares, with the first three presented above the second three; across lights in the first four rows of both top half and bottom half are clued in random order. Down lights are all jumbled, with two in each square, a boy's name and a girl's name, being unclued; last two rows of top half and bottom half contain 'I NEVER KNOWS THE CHILDREN. IT'S JUST SIX OF ONE AND HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER' - CAPT. F. MARRYAT."
3606	24/02/2001	The K?nigsberg Bridges	Oyler	99	1	"Numerical puzzle; the letters appearing in the title and setter stand for the first 12 palindromic primes (including single-digit primes) in some order, and across clues are in terms of them; four of the rows have cyclic entry from starting positions to be determined, while sums of digits within columns are given. Grid represents a map of K?nigsberg; if an extra bridge is added, a path may be traced containing the first 47 significant figures of Euler's constant e (= 2.7182818284590452353602874713526624977572470936...)."
3607	03/03/2001	Biblical Advice	The Tall'n	169	2	"Alternate numbered clues contain superfluous letters, spelling MATTHEW NINETEEN THIRTY, which text reads 'But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first'. Answers to unnumbered clues have initial letter moved to the end (except for the last answer, whose final letter is moved to the beginning), and are presented in reverse alphabetical order; the unclued light at 1 Across is ZYTHUM (the last word defined in Chambers')."
3608	10/03/2001	To the Shaded Squares	Apex	144	2	"Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'FOR SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL'; each across answer loses a letter on entry and each down answer gains one, spelling 'I BRING FRESH SHOWERS' and 'MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS' respectively. All three quotations are from PERCY SHELLEY, jumbled in shaded squares."
3609	17/03/2001	Summer Vacation	the Irishman	215	1	"Grid is a map of Ireland; one unclued light is SNAKE FLEES THIS PLANT, suggesting other unclued lights SHAMROCK and FIELD M(ADDER), (VIPER)'S GRASS, (ADDER)'S TONGUE, BL(ADDER) SENNA, JACOB'S L(ADDER), (VIPER)'S BUGLOSS, BL(ADDER)WORT. Several other lights are Irish placenames."
3610	24/03/2001	A Change of Title	Adam	144	4	"Subsidiary indications either ignore letters or involve extra letters, spelling 'TROILUS AND CRISEYDE' (Across) and 'LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN' (Down). Placing one above the other gives substitutions used to encode perimeter answers."
3611	31/03/2001	Mini Jumbo	Waterloo	121	2	"Many answers are too long to fit in the grid; they are divided into sections of equal length (between 2 and 5 letters long), which are then encoded by single letters, the encoding being consistent for sections of each length."
3612	07/04/2001	Goo Goo G'Joob	Franc	144	2	"Twelve across clues contain superfluous words, which are synonyms of either DOT or DASH; correctly grouped they spell MORSE in Morse Code; eighteen down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE (Morse). Perimeter contains ENDEAVOUR, DEXTER, STRANGE, CROSSWORD, OXFORD, REAL ALE; other unclued lights are JAGUAR, LEWIS, OPERA."
3613	14/04/2001	15 Down [Snake in The Grass]	Mass	225	2	"Twelve unclued lights including the title are THE-SNAKE-GRASS, S-SEPS-TOOLPIGEON, N-COTTONMOUTH-ARK, PO-MAMBA-T, MARYJA-KRAIT-NE, HE-VIPER-MP, D-ASP-HURRA, SP-BUSHMASTER-ELT, EM-DEATHADDER-MER, STA-BOA-RR, T-CROTALUS-USSOCK, ESPART-ANACONDA-O. 21 lights are anagrams of answers with letters removed, the letters concerned being the mutually checked letters of the unclued lights."
3614	21/04/2001	Private Opinion	Morix	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words; the initial letter of the answer is entered where indicated, the remainder elsewhere, with the initial letter of the superfluous word occurring at the end of the light. Perimeter contains 'BLESS 'EM ALL! BLESS 'EM ALL! THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL'; final letters of superfluous words spell 'YOU'LL GET NO PROMOTION THIS SIDE OF THE OCEAN'."
3615	28/04/2001	Conservation	Verbascum	196	2	"Clues are in two groups, 'Endangered Species' and 'Nature Notes'. The former are DLM with misprinted definitions, the correct letters spelling HARPER LEE; their lights are 4-letter and satisfy the completion of the perimeter quotation 'THERE ARE THREE CLASSES WHICH NEED SANCTUARY MORE THAN OTHERS' ('birds, wild flowers and Prime Ministers'). The latter have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling 'SHOOT ALL THE BLUEJAYS YOU WANT, IF YOU CAN HIT 'EM, BUT REMEMBER IT'S A SIN'; the completion 'TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD' is to be written beneath the grid."
3616	05/05/2001	Sin	Monk	144	2	"Down lights are jumbled; first eight squares on main diagonal contain portions of lights which contribute to seven numbers and POINT, so that main diagonal contains 1.414214FEET. Taking grid as a SCALE DRAWING and using the PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM (all formed from down lights) reveals that One Square is One INCH (to be written beneath the grid)."
3617	12/05/2001	Football	Pilcrow	149	2	"Grid represents the surface of a football, comprising 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, each with two lights surrounding it. Subsidiary indications in pentagon clues involve extra letters, spelling CARBON FORM WITH SIXTY ATOMS; one of each pair of hexagon clues is LL, spelling an arrangement of BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE, to be written beside the grid."	
3618	19/05/2001	What's This?	Corylus	128	1	"Grid is blank, with clues given in normal order; the bar-pattern spells 'crossword' in lower case, with 'cross' and 'word' reading diagonally and crossing at 'o'."	
3619	26/05/2001	Quisling	Pie	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  (excluding  I, O  and  X)  stand for the numbers from 3 to 25 in some order, and clues are in terms of them."	
3620	02/06/2001	Oh No! Not Another Maths One	Mordred	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters spell 'MULTIPLICATION IS VE(X)ATION, DIVISION IS AS BAD; THE RULE OF THREE DOTH PUZZLE ME, AND PRACTICE DRIVES ME MAD'. In 11 answers ERROR, CHRIST, CHI, CROSS, TEN, KISS, BY, EX, TIMES are replaced by X, NINE by IX and ELEVEN by XI; this gives nine squares containing X in the shape of an X. Unclued lights are RANK (from second line of quotation), TRIUMVIRATE (from third) and ICPCETAR, IMSDEREV (from fourth)."	
3621	09/06/2001	Buzz Words	Aragon	156	2	"7 down clues contain superfluous words defining the unclued across lights 'VEXT CWM FLY JABS KURD QOPH - ZING!'; the letters above these in the grid are all different (including the unclued central row DESCRAMBLING), and determine a cipher employed for the down lights. Each across clue contains a definition together with a sequence of letters whose encoded version is a jumble of the light."	
3622	16/06/2001	Nearly All Change	BeRo	144	2	"Down answers are altered by moving each letter one place backward in the alphabet for each straight line comprising the letter and one place forward for each curvy part. Across answers INBENT and SPIRAL (whose clues are similarly altered), and down answers LINEAR and NORMAL (altered) are Playfair-coded."	Straight minus curvy plus
3623	23/06/2001	Times	Mr Lemon	144	2	"All letters of answers are squared on entry, e.g. PYRE becomes VALY; unclued lights are squared forms of FOUR, NINE, SIXTEEN, HUNDRED, BERKELEY, LEICESTER, GROSVENOR, BELGRAVE, while central 2 x 2 square contains squared form of SOHO."	
3624	30/06/2001	Symphonie Bathetique	Elgin	144	1	"Grid has no numbers and only some bars; the bars to be inserted form steps down the main diagonal. Four asterisked clues lead to FIFE, VINA, OBOE, LYRE which must be Playfair-coded. Initial letters of the 18 normal clues spell GRID HAS SEVEN BLANKS; originally the main diagonal consists of PIANO at the top followed by 7 blanks. In the other 14 clues in each direction a note (a letter from A to G) must be omitted from the answer; initial letters of these clues give Playfair-coded forms of LAUREL AND HARDY (across) and LIGHTS ALL WORDS (down), the former ensuring the latter by allowing the PIANO to slide to the bottom of the steps."	The Music Box
3625	07/07/2001	Identifiers	Bufo	169	1	"Grid is blank, with each row and column labelled by a pair of letters from AB to YZ; thus letter-pairs identify squares (the row-letter being given first). Clues are given in alphabetical order of light, and each contains one or more superfluous words leading to one of the letter-pairs identifying the starting square. 13 unclued lights are surnames of people usually known by pairs of initials instead of forenames: A.A. MILNE, C.P. SNOW, C.S. LEWIS, E.M. FORSTER, G.K. CHESTERTON, J.B. PRIESTLEY, J.K. ROWLING, L.S. LOWRY, O.J. SIMPSON, P.G. WODEHOUSE, T.S. ELIOT, W.C. FIELDS, W.G. GRACE; their initials give their starting squares, and they run in any of four directions, re-entering the grid from the other side if necessary."	
3626	14/07/2001	The Third Degree	Schadenfreude	169	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH IN(Q)UISITION'; the missing Q is entered in the isolated central square. Perimeter contains JONATHAN CROWTHER, DERRICK MACNUTT, EDWARD POWYS MATHERS; unclued lights are jumbles of AZED, XIMENES, TORQUEMADA."	
3627	21/07/2001	The Plays of the Bard VIII	Salamanca	144	2	"The answers to six clues without definition are ARTHUR, ELINOR, BLANCH, GURNEY, PHILIP, HUBERT; they are to be Playfair-coded. One light is LOOKING, suggesting the play 'King John'."	Faulconbridge
3628	28/07/2001	My Fair Lady	Samson	96	4R	"Grid consists of 25 squares containing numbers each surrounded by eight squares; each numbered square has two clues. A jumble of a girl's name straddling the two answers is to be removed to form the 8-letter light, to be entered clockwise or anticlockwise (for odd-numbered squares) or jumbled (for even-numbered squares). Perimeter contains 'MEN ARE SO HONEST, SO THOROUGHLY SQUARE' - A.J. LERNER; four even-numbered lights are NICHOLAS, ALASTAIR, ALGERNON, BARNABAS."	
3629	04/08/2001	Don't Panic!	Tea Leaves	144	2	"Grid is blank; each clue contains one or more superfluous words leading to the grid number. Unclued light is THIRD LETTERS; taking third letters of clues spells 'GREAT QUESTION OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING', the answer to which is FORTY-TWO (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3630	11/08/2001	Vintage Stuff	Phi	165	2	"Most lights are jumbled; unclued central column is BOTRYTIS CINEREA, also known as NOBLE ROT, which appears across along with CATAWBA, CABERNET, SYRAH, PINOT, MALMSEY, MUSCAT, SEMILLON, SYYVANER, VERDELHO, SCUPPERNONG, GAMAY. Clues to lights entered normally contain extra letters, spelling SAUTERNES, TOKAY."	
3631	18/08/2001	A Message	Peeper	192	1R	"Perimeter lights, clued only by definition, each have one unchecked letter, for which there are two possibilities. Upper half of grid has 20 letters A forming a large A; the same formation in lower half contains THE UNCHES ARE SPORADIC, determining which possibility is correct in each case."	
3632	25/08/2001	Pyramid	Polymath	86	2	Numerical puzzle concerning the building of a square pyramid.	
3633	01/09/2001	Take Turns	MynoT	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are given in usual order as regards initial direction of lights, but at each L or R lights turn left or right."	
3634	08/09/2001	Round 10	Loda	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are given in usual order. In 10 squares portions of lights contribute to SUN, MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE, PLUTO, with the planets in the correct order of distance from the sun; GIOTTO is unclued."	
3635	15/09/2001	Gas or Taking the Mike	Henry	169	2	"Across clues are given in reverse order. All clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell D'OYLY CARTE, SAVOY THEATRE, GLKHB-GFIEB, MIKE LEIGH; the decoded film title (using A = Z, B = Y etc.) is TOPSY-TURVY, to be written beneath the grid. Unclued lights, entered upwards, are W.S. GILBERT, A. SULLIVAN, 'THE MIKADO'."	
3636	22/09/2001	Centrefold	Gioconda	144	4	"Clues are MP, spelling THE MIDDLE TO THE END OR THE END TO THE MIDDLE, indicating how answers are to be entered, e.g. FLOSSING becomes SFLOINGS, ADAMANTINE becomes DAMAAENTIN."	
3637	29/09/2001	Chain	Sabre	144	2	"Unclued lights CUDDY, CHUM, CULLYISM, TEREDO, ABSINTHE, LIGNITE, CRUVE, BASALT, LABRID define links in an endless chain of 8-letter words with 4-letter overlaps: COOK-ROOM-MATE-SHIP-WORM-WOOD-COAL-FISH-TRAP-ROCK-COOK."	
3638	06/10/2001	Power Housemen	Tiburon	169	1	"Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 4 directions. In 37 squares portions of lights contribute to form names of American Presidents, to be entered as their initial letters; THE WHITE HOUSE appears at the centre of the grid."	
3639	13/10/2001	Psycho Killer?	Charybdis	196	2	"18 clues lack definitions; their answers each lose one letter to form new words (whose positions are to be determined), spelling BARMECIDE, SCHACABAC. These two are protagonists in an Arabian Nights tale, which is mirrored by having unclued lights change from FAST to FEAST and LAMBASTING to LAMB BASTING by inserting an extra letter in one square of each."	
3640	20/10/2001	On the Town	Piccadilly	156	2	"Four double clues lead to pairs of 4-letter lights, whose letters may be arranged to form an 8-letter word (ABSINTHE, VERMOUTH, BURGUNDY, PILSENER) which is to be Playfair-coded on entry elsewhere; the unclued light HANGOVER is also Playfair-coded."	Pub-crawling
3641	27/10/2001	Trick or Treat?	Dimitry	225	4	"There are two types of clue. In 'treat' clues definitions have been interchanged in pairs; taking the differences between the grid numbers concerned and converting to letters (using A = 1, B = 2 etc.) yields the letters of JACK O-LANTERN. 'Trick' clues contain three consecutive superfluous letters; taking the differences between the second and first, and between third and second, gives a pair of letters; taking one of each pair spells 'SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES' - MACBETH while taking the others spells BLACK IN ALL LETTERS NOT IN THE TREAT WORD, which results in the image of a jack o'lantern in the grid."	
3642	03/11/2001	Which Way Up?	His Nibs	121	4R	"Grid contains 25 isolated squares each surrounded by eight squares; each of 25 clues is labelled with a different letter, appearing in the 9-letter answer and entered in one of the isolated squares with the remaining letters surrounding it in order, either clockwise or anticlockwise. Correct orientation is ensured by having N, S, E, W contained in the isolated squares at the centres of the top row, bottom row, rightmost column and leftmost column respectively."	
3643	10/11/2001	Requiem	Bandmaster	156	1	"Across clues are given in pairs; the first answer ends with a creature and the second begins with another, the two being replaced by their cross to form the light, e.g. YAKETY-YAK, COWARDS become YAKETY-ZHO-ARDS. Unclued across lights are COQUELICOT, PAPAVER, ARGEMONE, ICELAND (all poppies, placed in rows between the crosses)."	
3644	17/11/2001	Chapter and Verse	Charabanc	144	2	"Nine answers each have one letter falling outside the grid; these can be arranged to form 'ADLESTROP', written by EDWARD THOMAS (top row). Twelve clues have missing letters; these can be arranged to form ROBERT FROST."	
3645	24/11/2001	Plus ?a Change	Kea	144	2	"Puzzle concerns the line 'A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu' from the poem 'Voyelles' by Rimbaud. Half the clues in each direction are normal; each such answer is associated with one of the five colours, and its vowels (all of which are the same) are changed to fit the scheme, e.g. REDDLE becomes RIDDLI. Remaining clues contain superfluous words (having all vowels the same), again associated with colours; after changing similarly (with colours given by initial letters of clues), final letters of those which are altered spell RIMBAUD RAINBOW. Four superfluous words are unchanged by this treatment; initial letters of their clues spell MOON (appropriate in the case of a 'blue moon')."	
3646	01/12/2001	What's This?	Pabulum	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in most clues involve extra letters, spelling 'THIS IS THE FAMOUS STONE ...' - GEORGE HERBERT (the quotation continues '... that turneth all to gold'). Five lights are Playfair-coded; the grid contains four stones, of which the one to be highlighted as answering the question in the title is OPAL, since two lights crossing it have ALL replaced by OR or AU (changing SCALLED and BE-ALL to SCORED and BEAU)."	Alchemy works
3647	08/12/2001	Stars	Franc	225	1	"Grid is blank, with arrows to denote starting squares of lights and dotted lines outlining a star; letters in squares crossed by the outline spell 'BEING A STAR HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME ...'. Clues are LL, spelling '... TO GET INSULTED IN PLACES WHERE THE AVERAGE NEGRO COULD NEVER HOPE TO GO AND GET INSULTED'. Centre of top row contains a star; others are to appear at centres of other edges, formed by portions of lights."	
3648	15/12/2001	Undercover Activities	Glow-worm	195	1R	"Puzzle is based on HEADINGS of ENDPAPERS in Chambers', appearing in perimeter of grid as MODEL OF DICTIONARY LAYOUT and DETAILED CHART OF PRONUNCIATION. The former has the sample entry DANSE MACABRE, leading to unclued lights SEDAN, ANDES, DEANS, DANES. The latter has 'then father', 'happy home', 'whale which', 'monkey precinct' among two-word groups exemplifying consonants, suggesting ABBA, NEST, ORCA, CAGE to be highlighted in the grid; eight 3-letter lights have four double DLM clues, with extra letters DH, H, HW, NGK inserted in letter-mixtures"	
3649	22/12/2001	Forgive and Forget	Ploutos	140	2	"Across answers are entered using FORAY, FORBYE, FORCES, FOR?AT, FORDO, FOREL, FORFAR, FORGIVE & FORGET, FORHOW, FORINT, FORJESKIT, FORKED, FORLESE, FORME, FORNIX, FORPIT, FORRAD, FORSAY, FORTH, FORUM, FORWHY, FORZATO."	
3650	29/12/2001	Easy?	Viking	144	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell RATIO OF CIRCUMFERENCE TO DIAMETER OF CIRCLE. Subsidiary indications in asterisked clues lead to misprinted forms; shading correct letters in grid forms a lower case PI, while misprints may be arranged to form TWENTY-TWO/SEVEN (to be entered numerically as a ratio in a box beneath the grid). Lengths of superfluous words give 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841 (0 given by superfluous word 'cipher'); reading this sequence in the grid spells ARCHIMEDES: 'MEASUREMENT OF A CIRCLE' (also to be written beneath the grid)."	
3651	05/01/2002	A Recurrent Puzzle	Aldhelm	180	2	"Grid has left and right halves separated by an isolated central column; across clues are LL, with the same letter omitted in both halves of each row and entered in the central column, spelling AESOP'S 'FABLES'. Down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'SLOW BUT SURE WINS THE RACE'; TORTOISE and HARE are to be highlighted in columns either side of central one."	
3652	12/01/2002	SDT	Uptodate	69	4	"Numerical puzzle concerning 'Single Digit Totals' (remainders modulo 9) of lights, wherein the numbers from 1 to 25 are to be entered in squares, as given by letter equivalents."	
3653	19/01/2002	General Post	Ix	196	4	"Clues are to be taken in fours; each set of four consists of two MP clues with jumbled lights, one LL clue and one with a superfluous word. The initial letter of the superfluous word is that omitted in the LL clue, and is to replace two consecutive letters to form the light, the letters replaced being the misprints. The replacements spell MISCELLANEOUS."	
3654	26/01/2002	Royal Flush	Merlin	169	1	"Grid is blank with abbreviations for English kings or queens in some squares. Clues are normal or DLM, and each relates to a monarch, determining the starting square of the light (one relates to Cromwell and the location of its light, LORD PROTECTOR, must be determined)."	
3655	02/02/2002	Linear G___ [rey]	Aragon	156	2	"The 27 Underground stations on the Jubilee Line are assigned letters of the alphabet from A to Z in order from Stanmore to Stratford, with D doubling for Kingsbury and Wembley Park; all but two of them (usually jumbled) appear in clues and must be replaced by their letters before the clues are solved; the other two appear as answers (in anagram form in one case) and must be entered as their letters E and R in isolated squares at the ends of the central row, surrounding MCMLII - MMII. In ten clues subsidiary indications ignore letters, spelling L YEAR REIGN (an anagram of the full title)."	
3656	09/02/2002	In the Round	149	130	1	"Grid is circular with jumbled 6-letter radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'PERICLES' - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; second, third and fourth contain THALIARD, DIANA, PHILEMON, BOULT, DIONYZA, THAISA, MARINA, LEONINE; innermost circle contains 'I TELL YOU WHAT MINE AUTHORS SAY'."	
3657	16/02/2002	To _________ [Our Crossword Setters]	Apex	144	2	"Each answer loses two letters on entry, spelling 'AGE CANNOT WITHER THEM, NOR CUSTOM STALE THEIR INFINITE VARIETIES' - DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS. Lettered squares in grid contain OUR CROSSWORD SETTERS."	
3658	23/02/2002	Polygons Galore	Dave	100	4	"Numerical puzzle; the different letters of the title correspond to the numbers from 1 to 10 in some order. Each row and column of the grid corresponds to a different 'order' of polygonal numbers (triangular, square, pentagonal, etc.) from 3 to 12, and in the clues the letters represent the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ..., 10th polygonal numbers of the order concerned."	
3659	02/03/2002	Four Star	Adam	144	2	"Four pairs of lights are anagrams of Shakespearean lovers, crossing at a square surrounded by a star (thus being 'A pair of star-crossed lovers')."	
3660	09/03/2002	Mistake	Quinapalus	143	2	"Clues are MP, spelling FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS FOUND IN TOP, MIDDLE AND BOTTOM ROWS; these read SHADE IN SQUARES WHERE LIGHTS DISAGREE; doing so forms the words RED INK, indicating what is to be used to complete the grid."	
3661	16/03/2002	Close-up	Monk	144	2	"Column just left of central line contains ORIGAMI PAPER (unclued); grid is to be folded along the centre of this column, leaving only the rightmost column uncovered, containing STAYS VISIBLE (unclued). Four down answers are FURBELOWING, LONDON UNDERGROUND, DISCOVERTURE, SELF-GOVERNMENT; the first part of each appears normally, with the last part following 'below', 'under' or 'over' then appearing either beneath or above it (the letters concerned being ignored in the subsidiary indications of crossing across lights)."	
3662	23/03/2002	Window Dressing	Llig	169	2	"Lights wholly or partly contained in the central 7 x 9 rectangle (outlined) are jumbled, so that it reads 'MACHT DOCH DEN ZWEITEN FENSTERLADEN AUCH AUF, DAMIT MEHR LICHT HEREINKOMME', the last words of GOETHE, to be written beneath the grid."	
3663	30/03/2002	The Missing Saint	Aedites	144	2	"An encryption scheme is obtained by writing the codeword followed by the remainder of the alphabet in order; lights are encoded, those across by replacing each letter by that one place after it in the sequence and those down by replacing each letter by that four (to be discovered) places after it."	Hydropneumatic
3664	06/04/2002	Truants	Machiavelli	169	4	"25 lights are formed by removing first names, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, from longer words; clues define both words. The letter not used to begin a first name (Y) is entered in the central isolated square."	
3665	13/04/2002	The Well-Tempered Clavier	Nibor	144	2	"Each row represents one of the twelve keys, and contains two lights; a letter is transferred from one to the other, spelling PRELUDE, FUGUE; each across light is 'transposed' from the key of C to the key for the row by advancing each letter between 0 and 11 places in the alphabet. Subsidiary indications in across clues involve pairs of extra letters (not necessarily consecutive); transposed back to C, they spell 'FORTY-EIGHT PRELUDES AND FUGUES' BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH. Down lights are jumbled."	
3666	20/04/2002	Pseudantonyms	Obiter	169	2	"In each clue a word or phrase has been replaced by either an antonym or a word appearing to be an antonym (e.g. 'profusion' for 'confusion'). Ten unclued lights are similar false antonyms which are not words: FRONTGAMMON, SHORTITUDE, WHITEMAIL, COLD PLATE, SOFT-EARNED, FASTWORM, GOODMINTON, UNDERSEE, WEAKHOLD, TAMELIFE."	
3667	27/04/2002	Exact Hit	The Tall'n	169	2	"1 Across and 1 Down are PERFECT PANGRAM; most clues have extra letters, spelling THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG. Seven down lights clued only by definition form FLY Q-SHIP ZAG VEXT DRUNK CWM JOB; six across lights similarly clued (except the last, which is unclued) form QUICK BERG JYNX FLAMS TWP VOZHD."	
3668	04/05/2002	One Down [The Borrowers]	Amicus	144	1	"Grid is almost divided in two by the central horizontal line; the two halves are identical. 1 Down (unclued) is THE BORROWERS. Clues are double, separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'AFIELD, AFLOAT, ALOFT' (the words following 'The Borrowers' in the titles of the three sequels); the light in the upper half loses a letter and that in the lower half gains one, the sets of letters lost and gained being the same and forming a rearrangement of POD, HOMILY, ARRIETTY (to be written beneath the grid). Unclued lights in top half are BORLOTTI and FLAGEOLET (for 'human beans'); those in bottom half are REPEATER and CLEPSYDRA (the Borrowers' surname being Clock)."	
3669	11/05/2002	Dab	Leo	156	2	"Ten answers lose 'bad backs' on entry, e.g. HACKBUTS becomes HUTS. Central column contains SLIPPED DISCS; remaining across answers lose O on entry. Unclued across lights are LUMBAG(O), SC(O)LI(O)SIS, KYPH(O)SIS, P(O)STURE."	
3670	18/05/2002	French Note	Ark	169	2	"Puzzle concerns 'LA RONDE'; in seven answers a consecutive pair of letters from the title (treated cyclically) is to be replaced by the next pair (sharing a common letter), e.g. CLAVER becomes CARVER; the seven letters which remain but gain a new partner lie in an approximate circle. Remaining clues are equally divided among 3 types: one word in clue must be replaced by a cyclic permutation; light is a cyclic permutation of the answer; light is French translation of answer."	
3671	25/05/2002	Euler's Spoilers	Oyler	100	4R	"Numerical puzzle; grid is blank, with rows and columns labelled by letters to give co-ordinates. Each square is to contain a number from 00 to 99 so as to form a double Latin square (with the two squares formed by taking first digits and second digits of the numbers both having each digit occurring exactly once in each row and column); the number in each square is clued by means of various properties, e.g. Fibonacci. Triangular."	
3672	01/06/2002	Hit Your Brass!	Oz	196	24R	"Grid is circular with radial 5-letter lights, half being jumbled; third circle contains 'AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS, BLOW YOUR TRUMPETS' from 'HOLY SONNETS FOUR' by JOHN DONNE (fifth circle); first circle contains PUNCH/CORNETS, APPEL/SENNETS, WHANG/SHOFARS, CLOUT/CORONAE."	
3673	08/06/2002	Journey	Gioconda	169	2	"In 18 square portions of lights contribute to names of places visited by CHRISTIAN (to be entered in central 3 x 3 square, including five isolated squares) in 'The Pilgrim's Progress'."	
3674	15/06/2002	1886 and All That	Duck	144	2	"Four down clues lack definitions; their lights (BRONTE, CONRAD, AUSTEN, MILTON) must be Playfair-coded. Remaining down clues are MP or contain extra letters, spelling THE BERNE CONVENTION (to be written beneath the grid). 22 squares are left blank and must be filled with the copyright symbol."	Uncopyrightable
3675	22/06/2002	Tailor	Schadenfreude	169	2	"Some clues contain words which must be replaced by anagrams before solving; initial letters of correct words spell 'FISH ARE JUMPIN' ... THE COTTON IS HIGH'. Remaining clues lack definitions, and lead to either fish (which must jump to another location) or types of cotton (which must be jumbled)."	
3676	29/06/2002	Ave Atque Vale	Dimitry	186	1	"Puzzle commemorates Mike Rich (born 29/06/1940); clues are MP, spelling IN MEMORY OF M.C.C. RICH, LISTENER CROSSWORD CO-EDITOR. Subsidiary indications in some clues ignore one or two letters, spelling IN MEMORIAM PLOUTOS, to be written in the row beneath the grid. Twenty clues are presented in pairs prefaced by titles and numbers of Ploutos puzzles; the puzzle number is to be regarded as two grid numbers run together, and the title is appropriate to the clues. From the grid all letters are to be removed except those spelling MICHAEL CHARLES CHRISTOPHER RICH in the shape of a cross."	
3677	06/07/2002	The Garden of Delights	Dipper	144	2	"Six answers are split in half with the second half entered elsewhere; four have their last two or three letters removed and inserted elsewhere in COIR, LOAM, PEAT or MOSS; six have lost one or two interior letters (spelling an arrangement of ORANGE-TIP); six definitions have lost letters."	
3678	13/07/2002	Hard Going	Bufo	225	2	"Thirteen squares (including the isolated central one) each must contain three letters; these can be arranged to form 'IN ..., 'EREFORD AND 'AMPSHIRE, 'URRICANES 'ARDLY 'APPEN'. The missing word is 'ERTFORD; five unclued lights are towns in Hertfordshire lacking initial H ('EMEL 'EMPSTEAD, 'ARPENDEN, 'ODDESDON, 'ITCHIN, 'ATFIELD); the other five are 'ENRY 'IGGINS, 'ARRISON, 'EPBURN, 'OLLOWAY, 'YDE-WHITE (from the film of 'My Fair Lady')."	
3679	20/07/2002	Author	Sabre	169	1	"Subsidiary indications in 15 across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'THE VALLEY OF FEAR'; 15 down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'NAPOLEON OF CRIME'; unclued lights are TREATISE and BINOMIAL THEOREM. The other work known to have been written by Professor Moriarty is 'The DYNAMICS of an ASTEROID', the two words giving eight pairs appearing as clashes in the grid. Central row contains N Q XG OI CBH R S GH, giving numerical values 14 17 247 159 328 18 19 78; using the code described in 'The Valley of Fear' which entails taking appropriately numbered words in a text (here 'The Final Problem', mentioned in the preamble) gives the message 'Write last letters of modified words in scarlet'. This enables the determination of which letter to be entered at each clash, since the final letters of misprinted lights, read left to right, spell MORIARTY."	
3680	27/07/2002	Going into Reverse	Waterloo	121	1	"All answers reverse at least once on entry, e.g. SELFLESS becomes SSELF, MINIMUM becomes UMIN."	
3681	03/08/2002	Master of Spin	Merlin	170	2	"Answers are misprinted on entry; taking the misprints and correct letters (in either order) in pairs spells PAUL DIRAC - 'IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE BEAUTY IN ONE'S EQUATIONS THAN TO HAVE THEM FIT EXPERIMENT'. Unclued lights are DIOPHA-ADONIS-NTINE and SCHROEDI-VENUS-NGER (across) and EXPORIVENT (down), the O and V of the latter coming from ADONIS and VENUS."
3682	10/08/2002	Play Around	Colleague	225	2	"In 18 squares portions of lights contribute to form ALCATRAS (an albatross), ERNE, HARPY, LECTERN (eagles), SPARROW, LINNET, FINCH, THRUSH, TAHA, ROBIN, WREN (birdies), EQUAL, LEVEL, SALMON (pars), GOBLIN, TRUCK, COLONEL (bogeys), NIS/NIS (double bogey), thus giving a score of 11 under par. Subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling TROMBONES PLUS BLACK BALL MINUS COMMANDMENTS, giving a par of 76 + 7 - 10 = 73; the actual score achieved was therefore 62 (to be written beneath the grid)."
3683	17/08/2002	Point to Point	Samson	191	1	"Grid is blank, with an external row and column above and to the left of the grid; lights are entered running from each row and column to the next as required, and many squares contain two letters. In each row and column one letter is removed from a light and placed in the external column and row, spelling COASTAL PATH - START AT SW CORNER; the corner contains NE, giving the initial direction of travel, changed upon meeting another compass point, to trace out the outline of Great Britain."
3684	24/08/2002	D	Alban	169	2	"All answers are German words, almost all being in Chambers' (mainly in etymologies); down lights are jumbled."
3685	31/08/2002	Pentad	Tangent	60	1	"Numerical puzzle concerning the placement of the twelve pentominoes in an 8 x 8 square with a central 2 x 3 hole. The letters  a, b, c, ..., i  stand for the fifth powers from 1 to 59049 and clues are in terms of them; digits of lights must be entered in squares of pentominoes so that the pattern of digits in the grid has symmetry in both horizontal and vertical axes."
3686	07/09/2002	Act	Mr Lemon	130	2	"Unclued lights form 'GIVE US BACK OUR ELEVEN DAYS' (referring to the 'period' between 02/09/1752 and 14/09/1752); 16 answers gain one or two letters D on entry (forming new words), while subidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spelling LD CHESTERFIELD, GREGORY."
3687	14/09/2002	Sevens	MynoT	196	4	"All lights are 7-letter, with HEPTADS unclued; clues are given in alphabetical order of light, and have letters misprinted as A, D, L or R to assist with the placing of lights."
3688	21/09/2002	Teamwork	Lato	169	2	"Unclued lights are OLYMPIC GAMES and PENRITH LAKES, celebrating the gold medals won by Great Britain's coxless four. Four answers lose the letters COX (not consecutively) on entry. In three clues subsidiary indications lead to CRACKNELL, FOSTER, PINSENT; their letters and those of REDGRAVE may be arranged to form the three lights together with FIVE GOLDS, appearing as VORS in the grid."
3689	28/09/2002	The Plays of the Bard IX	Salamanca	117	1	"Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, eight being jumbled; subsidiary indications in these clues involve extra letters, spelling SCOTTISH, suggesting the play 'Macbeth'. Outermost circle contains 'FOR TH' INGREDIENCE OF OUR CAULDRON'; two unclued radial lights and contents of fourth circle are TONGUE, FINGER, LEG, TOOTH, LIVER, GALL, LIPS, EYE, TOE, together with the out-of-place HIP, to be highlighted."
3690	05/10/2002	Omissions	Phi	144	2	"In each clue a word has lost its initial or final letter, spelling 'WORDS FROM LOOSE USING HAVE LOST THEIR EDGE'; fifteen lights have a letter falling outside the grid, spelling clockwise ERNEST HEMINGWAY (to be written beneath the grid rather than around it)."
3691	12/10/2002	Four-Letter Word	Mordred	217	2R	"Grid is a hexagonal lattice; lights are 6- or 7-letter, to be entered around numbered hexagons (with initial letters of 7-letter lights, spelling CHESHIRE, entered in the numbered hexagons in the top left corner). Blocking in a sequence given in the preamble gives a picture of a cat; everything is then to be removed except its GRIN."
3692	19/10/2002	Portfolio	Loda	169	2	"Across answers are entered with extra letters, spelling THE FTSE ALL-SHARE INDEX; down clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING. Each column relates to one of 13 shares, given a 3-letter trading code, which appears in one of the answers and may rise or fall on entry; the one which does not move, LSE, also stands for LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, to be written beneath the grid."
3693	26/10/2002	Hope is a 6-letter Word	Tea Leaves	140	1	"Grid is blank with rows and columns labelled by numbers and letters; clues are given in alphabetical order of light (4-letter), to be entered along king's moves with starting and finishing squares given. One clue in each group of three contains a superfluous word, forming GRID SPLITS PRECISELY INTO NINETEEN JIGSAW SHAPES; EIGHTEEN REPRESENT SIMILAR THINGS; ODD ONE GIVES RESPONSE; SHOW SEPARATING LINES. The eighteen are British placenames entered cryptically, e.g. HAMBLEDON becomes HAMBON, ETON becomes EFGHIJKLMN; the odd one is CORPSE on top of MY, representing OVER MY DEAD BODY (the response to the suggestion that the puzzle be made easier)."
3694	02/11/2002	Peeper's Current Offering	Peeper	156	2	"Half the clues have a B missing; remaining answers lose a B on entry. Top, middle and bottom rows contain 'NO SHADE, NO SHINE, NO (B)UTTERFLIES, (NO BEES)' - THOMAS HOOD."
3695	09/11/2002	Trust not the Printers	The Irishman	169	2	"Most clues have portions of words misprinted, e.g. 'plantain' for 'planted', these occurring in complementary pairs; the clue to ROGUE is PD. Six answers are Bible editions named after misprints, the lights being the corrected words; the title refers to the Printers' Bible, and PRINCES (the word misprinted there) is to be written beneath the grid."
3696	16/11/2002	A Cruel Cut	Aragon	144	2	"Answers are entered with all occurrences of M or E omitted; unclued lights are (ED)GAR ALLA(N) POE (author of 'The Raven', who quoth 'NEVERMORE'), CHARLE(S) D(I)C(K)E(NS) (whose novel 'Barnaby Rudge' contains a raven called GRIP), R(U)TH RE(N)DELL (author of 'An Unkindness of Ravens'), the letters omitted from their names being a rearrangement of UNKINDNESS."
3697	23/11/2002	Wildlife Down Under	Tiburon	169	2	"Four across answers lose all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling EURO; subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION (or EMU for short). In six squares 3 letters from the across light clash with 3 from the down; the twelve sequences are GRD, BEF, PTE, ITL, FRF, DEM, FIM, ESP, LUF, IEP, NLG, ATS (the old currencies of the twelve countries which adopted the Euro at the start of the year), and each is to be replaced by the Euro symbol ?."	
3698	30/11/2002	Twinset	Zag	25	2	Numerical puzzle with two identical grids and two clues at each location given in either order.	
3699	07/12/2002	Conversion	Arcturus	144	2	"Half the clues are MP, spelling 'NOT ANGLES, BUT ANGELS'; remaining answers are all 6-letter, entered with two adjacent letters transposed to form new words."	
3700	14/12/2002	Minesweeper	BeRo	144	1	"Grid is blank with rows and columns labelled by numbers and letters, and represents an area of ocean containing 19 mines, to be discovered and marked; lights may travel in any of 8 directions from given starting squares, and change direction upon meeting mines, finishing either in the perimeter or just before a mine."	
3701	21/12/2002	Wet Feet	Schadenfreude	169	2	"Eight clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters may be arranged to form REVERSED and CROSSING respectively; unchecked letters in their lights may be arranged to form THE GOONS. Centre of main diagonal is THE IRISH SEA, crossed by GNIKLAWMI (i.e., I'M WALKING backwards); all other lights crossing it are similarly reversed."	
3702	28/12/2002	*** [Letters From America]	Franc	84	2	"Only letters A, M, E, R, I and C are entered from answers; ALISTAIR COOKE, NICK CLARKE and LETTERS FROM AMERICA are unclued, the last to be written beneath the grid."	
3703	04/01/2003	Pardon the Interruption II	Jago	150	2	Each light is 'interrupted' once by a crossing but non-intersecting light.	
3704	11/01/2003	Varied States?	Auctor	144	2	"Answers are misprinted on entry, spelling 'IGNOTAS ANIMUM DIMITTIT IN ARTES', the ending of the Labyrinth story in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and used as epigraph in Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'; unclued lights are LABYRINTH (CAVITY, TANGLE, MAZE), STEPHEN (JOYCE, ARTIST, YOUNG)."	
3705	18/01/2003	A Problem with Liquidity	Waterloo	169	2	"Letters L and R are regarded as interchangeable in both clues and lights, with a dot replacing each occurrence in the grid"	
3706	25/01/2003	Up and Down	Elfman	144	2	"Puzzle concerns the opening lines of 'A Tale of Two Cities': five asterisked clues lack definitions, leading to DESPAIR, DARKNESS, WORST, INCREDULITY, FOOLISHNESS; they are followed by Playfair-coded versions of HOPE, LIGHT, BEST, BELIEF, WISDOM; the lights are Playfair-coded versions of SWPIRNITNEGR (i.e., SPRING interlaced with WINTER), SEASON, TIMES, EPOCH, AGE. The unclued light is WEALLUSWEOUS ('we had everything before us, we had nothing before us')."	"London, Paris"
3707	01/02/2003	Avoid	Mod	169	1	"Subsidiary indications in 12 clues involve extra letters, spelling GEORGES PEREC; most other answers lose occurrences of E on entry. Main diagonal contains A BOOK LACKING E (the last letter appearing in an isolated square), describing 'LA DISPARITION', to be highlighted in other diagonal."	
3708	08/02/2003	Silver	Ark	169	2	"25 clues are MP, spelling 'ANY COLOUR - SO LONG AS IT'S BLACK', indicating how most of the grid should be filled in. Remaining clues contain superfluous words (all examples or definitions of colours or money), whose initial letters spell '(THE) COLOR OF MONEY' - SCORSESE. Clashes in the grid are resolved by entering six monetary units (given by taking one choice in the squares concerned), directed out from the centre, in a particular colour (given by the other choices): YEN in RED, DOLLAR in YELLOW, FRANC in GREEN, PESO in PINK, BAHT in BLUE, and CROWN in BROWN."	
3709	15/02/2003	Sixes and Sevens	Sabre	144	4	"Each row and column contains one 5- and one 7-letter light. The latter are entered normally, but in each quadrant the locations of only two are given. The former are jumbles of 6-letter answers less one letter, to be found in the 7-letter light in the same row or column; these letters spell TAKE SECOND LETTERS OF CLUES; doing so yields THE FIVE-LETTER ACROSS ENTRIES ARE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, which enables to grid to be completed without ambiguity."	
3710	22/02/2003	Minefield	Aedites	121	1	"Numerical puzzle; grid is blank, and represents a minefield, with mines to be represented by black squares and each other square to contain 0, 1, 2 or 3 denoting the number of mines in adjacent squares. Lights are to be taken in base 4, and are clued as products; the letters  A, B, C, ..., R  stand for different prime factors."	
3711	01/03/2003	Compounds	Syd Lexis	169	2	"In nine squares (symmetrically arranged), clashes are to be resolved by replacing the letters, which are chemical symbols, by their atomic numbers, adding those and converting back to a letter; the ten symbols used are the initial letters of correspondingly numbered clues."	
3712	08/03/2003	Isle	Viking	169	2	"Unclued lights are FICTION, FABLE, GAG, FLAM, ONER, FIB - all 'lies'; the title represents 'damned lies'; subsidiary indications lead to misprinted forms of the lights, the misprints spelling 'NOS NUMEROS SUMUS ET FRUGES CONSUMERE NATI'. Tracing the bell curve of the normal distribution spells DISRAELI, J.E. GREEN."	
3713	15/03/2003	Carte Tr?s Blanche	Elgin	168	2R	"Grid is not given, but is a 3 x 56 rectangle forming the surface of a M?bius strip; unclued lights are GERMAN, AUGUST, MOBIUS."
3714	22/03/2003	Decisions	Bufo	144	4	"Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters; the choice of which is to be regarded as the extra letter yields two possible answers for each such light, differing in an unchecked position. Down lights are misprinted, with the correct versions spelling SOME OTHER LETTERS DO, the reason why the extra letters in across clues do not spell out a message; the letters to be entered spell FILL IN THESE LETTERS."
3715	29/03/2003	Coded Secret	Samson	121	4	"In each across answer only odd or even letters are entered. Down lights in odd-numbered columns are jumbled; diagonals contain jumbles of SAMUEL MORSE and COLIN DEXTER (with the letter in the central isolated square to be deduced). Each down light loses a letter on entry, spelling ODDS ARE DOTS, EVENS DASHES; treating the across answers as dots or dashes in this way gives the Morse code for ENDEAVOUR, to be written beneath the grid."
3716	05/04/2003	Varying in Character	Mr Magoo	140	2	"Clues are MP, spelling THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, STANZA FORTY-NINE, LINE ONE (which reads ''Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days'). Various clashes occur in the grid; these are resolving by shading squares in chessboard fashion, with shaded squares spelling THE BLACK AND WHITE FLAG SHOWN TO THE WINNER AND SUBSEQUENT FINISHERS IN A MOTOR RACE, to create a CHEQUERED FLAG."
3717	12/04/2003	Europe's Ports	Alberich	169	2	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of answer; most contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell LAST FIVE WORDS OF MATTHEW CHAPTER NINETEEN, which in the Authorised Version are 'the last shall be first'; all lights are entered with final letter moved to the front. (Title is an anagram of 'preposterous'.)"
3718	19/04/2003	Breaking the Rules	Kea	144	4	"Some letters stretch over two squares, and consequently read as other letters in crossing lights, e.g. Y entered in a down light contributes V and I to the across lights."
3719	26/04/2003	Inferno II - Circles I and II	Hellphire	144	1	"Top half of the grid represents the First Circle of Hell: 13 answers lose gods on entry (UNGOD being unclued), and unclued lights are HOMER, LUCAN, VIRGIL, OVID and a jumble of HORACE (to form ACHERON in top row). Lights crossing from top half to bottom have letters ignored in subsidiary indications, spelling MINOS. Bottom half of grid represents the Second Circle: all lights are jumbled, and nine clues are MP, spelling HURRICANE, while the remaining lights contain lovers TRISTAN and ISOLDE, ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, GERAINT and ENID, and PARIS (so that HELEN is to be written beneath the grid)."
3720	03/05/2003	Siblings	Adam	144	2	"Three answers are CORDELIA, GONERIL, REGAN, entered using a substitution cipher; the coded form of LEAR is to be highlighted."
3721	10/05/2003	And One Has Two: An Archaic Alphabet	Mr E	182	2	"Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial one or two letters followed by two lights and the title spell THERE IS AN EXCEPTION TO EVERY RULE (meaning SENTENCE here), and one has two; thus each sentence of the preamble fails at some point to be completely correct. Some squares do not contain letters; shading all but one of them reveals the expression 61? (= 3721)."
3722	17/05/2003	Cross Purposes	Gioconda	144	2	"Eleven across answers contain words meaning 'fury', which must be replaced by letter-pairs spelling ALECTO, MEGAERA, TISIPHONE. Subsidiary indications in remaining across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'BLIND FURY ...'; those in down clues lead to answers with one letter replaced by another (neither being entered in the light), the replacements spelling '... WITH TH' ABHORRED SHEARS', and the originals forming an arrangement of BILE, CHOLER, DANDER, TEEN (to be written beneath the grid). EUMENIDES and ERINYES must be highlighted in the grid."
3723	24/05/2003	To __________ [The Comedian Bob Hope]	Apex	144	2	Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words; across answers lose and down answers gain letters. Omitted letters spell THE COMEDIAN BOB HOPE; added letters spell 'THE CAT AND THE CANARY' and initial letters of superfluous words spell 'THANKS FOR THE MEMORY'.
3724	31/05/2003	A Roman Puzzle	Elap	138	2	"Numerical puzzle using Roman numerals, with many lights appearing in arithmetic progressions."
3725	07/06/2003	Additional Characterisation	Duck	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN' - RUDYARD KIPLING. Five squares contain clashes; these lie in the same row, at the ends of THUMB, INDEX, MIDDLE, RING and LITTLE reading upwards, with the remainder of the row containing LEOPARD; following the story 'How the Leopard got his Spots' they should be replaced by black spots."
3726	14/06/2003	The Solver ...	Ix	196	4	"Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light. Final letters of superfluous words in across clues are to be entered in unchecked squares in the perimeter, which contains '(The Solver) UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING CROSSWAYS AND IMAGINES A CONSPIRACY'."
3727	21/06/2003	33 1 Across [Third Degree Mathematics]	Monk	143	2	"Nine down clues comprise definitions of two words and a mixture of those letters which are entered normally; in each case a word straddling the two is entered symbolically, e.g. HEPATISE, VENERATOR become HEPATI7ERATOR. (Two such words are CUBED and SQUARED, the powers already being present in the grid.) The central row reads  X? - 7X? + 36 = 0;  the solution TRIO -2, 3, 6 is to be written beneath the grid."
3728	28/06/2003	Who Am I?	Amicus	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve pairs of extra letters, spelling CATHERINE OF ARAGON, ANNE BOLEYN, JANE SEYMOUR, THE FLANDERS MARE, CATHERINE HOWARD AND CATHERINE PARR; their fates 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived' (repeated seven times) dictate methods of entry of lights, 'divorced' meaning split by an interrupting letter, 'beheaded' meaning lacking initial letter, 'died' meaning jumbled and 'survived' meaning normal. Interruptions in 'divorced' lights spell HENRY THE EIGHTH (born 28/06/1491), to be highlighted."
3729	05/07/2003	Code Sequence	Schadenfreude	168	2	"Clues are presented in alphabetical order of answers; each answer loses a pair of letters on entry, to be found in a superfluous word in the clue. The omissions are the ZIP codes of the 50 American states, with the grid numbers giving the order of joining the union."
3730	12/07/2003	Multiple Clues	Waterloo	132	2	"Eleven lights have multiple clues, leading to the words of a word-square with rows and columns equal; the light in each case is the word down the main diagonal, e.g. CLAP, LACE, ACT, PEAS lead to CATS."
3731	19/07/2003	Round	Ascot	170	10R	"Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, taken in ten groups of four; in each group one light is unclued (GOALBY, LANGER, STYMIE, WATSON, BIRDIE, ALLISS, DOGLEG, LEHMAN, FRINGE, STANCE), while one clue is DLM with the letter-mixture also containing the two unchecked letters of the unclued light). Second circle contains STABLEFORD, TOE, DRAW, PIN, SLICE, DORMIE, APRON, CHIP; innermost circle contains GLENEAGLES."
3732	26/07/2003	A Song of the Sea	Bandmaster	154	1	"Puzzle concerns John Gay's 'Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan', which contains the lines 'All in the Downs the fleet was moored ... When black-eyed Susan came aboard'. Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THUNBERGIA ALATA, DIANTHUS BARBATUS (the Latin names of Black-eyed Susan and Sweet William). Thirteen down answers are misprinted to become boats, the misprints forming BLACK EYED SUSAN (the fourteenth letter being contributed by the unclued GAY-YOU)."
3733	02/08/2003	Hole in the Wall	Obiter	162	1	"Grid represents a wall built of overlapping bricks, with a central hole; each brick contains a letter, entered centrally if an unchecked letter in an across light and otherwise in the half of the brick enabling down lights to be read without a stagger. Unclued lights are MOONSHINE, LION, PROLOGUE, PYRAMUS, THISBE (the latter two on either side of the hole)."
3734	09/08/2003	No Turning Back	Ark	169	2	"Twelve letters are ignored in subsidiary indications in clues, spelling 'JACTA EST ALEA', to be translated to 'THE DIE IS CAST' on entry (all lights changed still being words). Six squares contain ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX at the centres of 3 x 3 squares fitting together as the net of a die. 23 clues contain a pair of consecutive extra letters; added together, they spell SCISSORS, GLUE, TWICE, OFFCUT, filling the blanks in the instructions in the preamble: the net, with seven tabs containing GELATIN read anticlockwise, is to be removed from the grid and only the residue submitted."
3735	16/08/2003	Sparta	Charybdis	169	2	"Unclued light is LORD ACTON, who said that 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'; answers containing AP are replaced by anagrams while those containing just P have one letter misplaced or two interchanged, all lights still being words. From the title SATRAP is to be written beneath the grid."
3736	23/08/2003	Alphabet Soup	Dave	168	2	"Across and down clues are paired in an order to be determined, with subsidiary indications being interchanged; on entry the initial letter of one answer is removed and added to the beginning of the other, the letters removed and initial letters of answers gaining letters both exhausting the alphabet."
3737	30/08/2003	Verity Hill's Dice-Box	Googly	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; thirteen letters stand for primes between 11 and 59, with the other 13 letters standing for single digits (some of which may be represented by more than one letter or no letters). The nets of three dice are to be highlighted in the grid; the words FACT and BARROW (confirmed by the title) are to be deduced as represented by question-marks in clues and written beneath the grid."
3738	06/09/2003	Year Planner	Phi	144	1	"Grid represents the last twelve columns of a year planner, with top row representing September (to be discovered); black squares are to be used where months have fewer than 31 days. Across clues are given in alphabetical order of answer; subsidiary indications involve extra letters, these being the initial letters of the months concerned. First column contains BACK TO SCHOOL (unclued); others contain two lights, one jumbled and the other having an MP clue, spelling FORM MASTER."
3739	13/09/2003	Ouch!	Pabulum	144	2	"Top and bottom halves of grid contains the lights LOCKET and FISHER respectively; the letters of POCKET are to be transferred from the centre of a row in the top half to the corresponding position in the bottom half, leaving and filling blank squares and forming 16 new lights. 33 clues contain superfluous words; the even-numbered ones define the new lights in alphabetical order, while the fourth letters of the others spell 'ONLY RIBBON ROUND IT', the fourth line of the nursery rhyme beginning 'Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Not a penny was there in it' (the title suggesting (P)ouch)."
3740	20/09/2003	Acro's Sword	Bufo	143	2	"Word spacing, punctuation and/or capitalisation is misleading in each clue (title is 'A Crossword'); subsidiary indications in across clues ignore letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT TWO SWORDS: grid contains EXCALIBUR and SABRE forming a sword shape."
3741	27/09/2003	EH?	Ploy	168	2	"In eight answers RED must be shifted; 19 other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial or final letters spell EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE and EXPANDING UNIVERSE. Central row contains BIG BANG (to be highlighted)."
3742	04/10/2003	Beeline	Franc	133	6R	"Grid is hexagonal; lights are 7-letter, entered in clusters centred on numbered hexagons, which contain 'YOU ARE MY HONEY, HONEYSUCKLE, I AM THE BEE' - FITZ."
3743	11/10/2003	Bonxie	Mr Lemon	169	2	"Unclued lights are GUIILEMOT and LITTLE AUK; 9 answers each are affected by RAZORBILL (remove initial letter) and PUFFIN (insert 'ad'), all lights produced being words; subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spelling THE GREAT AUK IS SADLY EXTINCT."
3744	18/10/2003	The Plays of the Bard X	Salamanca	144	2	"Unclued lights are PLAUTUS, 'AMPHITRUO' and 'MENAECHMI' (the source of the plot of 'The Comedy of Errors'). Most clues are DLM and comprise quotations from the play with interpolated erroneous words which contain either the definition or the letter-mixture; some lights are defined in a passage from the play."
3745	25/10/2003	Excursion	Merlin	169	2	"35 clues contain extra letters, spelling 'C'EST MAGNIFIQUE, MAIS CE N'EST PAS LA GUERRE'; in three answers LEA or GUE is moved forwards, while two others lose DO and DIE. In three squares portions of lights contribute to form 'JAWS OF DEATH', 'MOUTH OF HELL' and 'VALLEY OF DEATH', to be replaced by single letters to form SIX HUNDRED along a diagonal; 19 squares contain clashes, resolved by forming BASILISK and CARRONADE on either side of the six hundred and FALCON in front of them. Thematic answers CRIMEAN, BALACLAVA, RAGLAN, CARDIGAN, LUCAN have grid numbers forming 25/10/1854 (the date of the battle, to be written beneath the grid)."
3746	01/11/2003	WRONG	Auctor	144	2	"Clues are double, with each across light paired with a crossing down light (the correspondence to be determined); one of each pair is LL, the omitted letters followed by the intersections of each pair of lights spelling 'SEND IN FINISHED ENTRY IN LOWER CASE PLEASE'."
3747	08/11/2003	A Game of 20 [Sardines]	Glow-worm	196	1	"Six 4-letter boys' and girls' names are to be found forming a 4 x 6 rectangle (with three names reading upwards), playing SARDINES. Ten clues contain superfluous words, five being SMELT, PERCH, SKATE, SOLE, BASS and five being anagrams of SARDINES (comprising one, two or three words). Perimeter contains 'AND HE THAT SAT WAS TO LOOK UPON LIKE JASPER AND A SARDINE-STONE'."
3748	15/11/2003	Cards	Sabre	182	1	"Grid is blank; each row contains three lights, the middle one having a DLM clue, while each column contains two lights. 52 squares contain clashes; the correct choices spell ACE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, JACK, QUEEN, KING in the 13 rows; each row contains a light which with another choice would form MANILLE, JACK, SANCHO, TIB, KNAVE, BOWER, PUR, NODDY, DEUCE, BASTO, PAM, NOB, TREY."
3749	22/11/2003	Divine	Llig	169	2	"Five lights clued without definition are VERDI, CHOPIN, HAYDN, WAGNER, ELGAR; other clues are MP, spelling 'AT LENGTH (DIVINE) CECILIA CAME, INVENTRESS OF THE VOCAL FRAME'. Main diagonals contain BRITTEN - HYMN and PURCELL - ODE, to be highlighted."
3750	29/11/2003	A Faulty Calculator	Aedites	81	4	"Numerical puzzle; clues concern division of one integer by another with digits to the right of the decimal point ignored. Completed grid is a Latin square, with each row and column containing each digit from 1 to 9 exactly once."
3751	06/12/2003	Straight Down	Mr Magoo	169	2	"24 clues lead to anagrams of lights, whose locations are to be determined; initial letters of these answers spell DUAL FOLDS CREATE SECOND ONE. Two vertical folds must be made so as to leave visible just the outer pair of columns on each side, revealing in alternate rows 'INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL'; central column (unclued) contains PRECIPITATING."
3752	13/12/2003	Joiners	The Tall'n	196	2	"Nine clues contain superfluous words whose letters must be combined with those of the answer to form the light, entered either vertically upwards (ARMSTRONG, YURI GAGARIN, SIKORSKY, MONTGOLFIER) or across and then diagonally upwards (BL?RIOT, LINDBERGH, ALCOCK & BROWN, BOEING, POWERED FLIGHT); WILBUR, ORVILLE and WRIGHT appear similarly and are to be highlighted."
3753	20/12/2003	How to Tell?	Dimitry	169	2	"Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; every third SW-NE diagonal, read boustrophedon, contains 'THE CHRISTMAS BELLS FROM HILL TO HILL ANSWER EACH OTHER IN THE MIST'."
3754	27/12/2003	___________ [Gallimaufry]	Apex	137	1	"There are 3 types of clues: normal, MP and PD. Perimeter contains WHAT PIG HAS TO BECOME WHEN GRIPPED BY HUNGER, a clue to PANTOPHAGIST, appearing in central row. Correct letters in MP clues form an arrangement of GALLIMAUFRY (to be written beneath the grid)."
3755	03/01/2004	Incomplete Clues	Waterloo	169	2	Each clue is missing the word which is the preceding light.
3756	10/01/2004	Listener Team	Duck	144	2	"Clues contain one or more superfluous words. In seven cases, where the answer is entered normally, there is just one superfluous word, and their initial letters spell EZEKIEL. All other answers are entered with one or more misprints, which form TOE, FOOT, ANKLE, LEG, KNEE, THIGH, HIP, BACK, SHOULDER, NECK, HEAD in successive diagonals; the positions of the superfluous words in the clue and their initial letters indicate the positions of the misprints and the differences between original letters and misprints."
3757	17/01/2004	Buffer Zones	Mordred	169	1	"In 13 squares portions of lights contribute to form jumbles of London terminal railway stations, appropriately located, to be replaced by X: ST PANCRAS, KING'S CROSS, MARYLEBONE, EUSTON, LIVERPOOL STREET, PADDINGTON, BLACKFRIARS, CANNON STREET, FENCHURCH STREET, CHARING CROSS, WATERLOO, LONDON BRIDGE, VICTORIA. Running through them, also appropriately located, is OLD FATHER THAMES, to be highlighted."
3758	24/01/2004	Asylag [Beware]	Elgin	165	4	"Clues contain superfluous words; in eight cases it defines the light; in remaining cases taking the initial or final letter spells USE SUBSTITUTION CIPHER THEN REORDER, explaining how the eight lights are to be obtained from the answers (the other choice of initial or final letters leads to a set of chessmen). The title and two diagonals, treated similarly, yield BEWARE, JUBJUB BIRD and JABBERWOCK; one diagonal contains ROYAL SIGNS; if the isolated central square is correctly filled, the other, rotated through 90? and viewed in a mirror, contains (approximately) UNICORN, LION."
3759	31/01/2004	A Matter of Numeracy	Obiter	168	2	"24 lights also form words when NO is either inserted or omitted; in their clues, definitions lead to one word and subsidiary indications to the other."
3760	07/02/2004	Double Carte Blanche	Phi	100	1	"Grid is blank, and represents two different grids; clues to these are paired in order. The two completed grids are to be superimposed and only letters which agree are to be entered; these spell PALIMPSEST."
3761	14/02/2004	Spoilt for Choice III	Jago	162	2	"Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square."	
3762	21/02/2004	Casing the Joint	Gioconda	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'TAKE YOUR HARE WHEN IT IS CASED' - 'THE ART OF COOKERY'; two clues without definition lead to HANNAH GLASSE; 16 answers lose a jumble of HARE on entry."	
3763	28/02/2004	Fossil Beds	Arden	94	1	"Numerical puzzle representing a series of strata in increasing order of age; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  stand for the numbers 0.5, 1, 1.5, ..., 13 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them, with across clues being names of fossils treated as products."	
3764	06/03/2004	Playbill	Adam	144	4	"Certain squares are asterisked, containing CORAL and ISLE NOISY, hinting at 'The Tempest', six of whose characters appear jumbled with missing letters as normally clued lights:(S)TEPHANO becomes PHAETON, TRINCU(L)O becomes RUCTION, (M)IRANDA becomes RADIAN, PROSPER(O) becomes PROPERS, S(E)BASTIAN becomes ABSTAINS, (A)NTONIO becomes NOTION. The missing letters may be arranged to form SALOME, to be written beneath the grid."	
3765	13/03/2004	Squaring the Circle II	Amicus	144	4	"Clues to lights other than those in the perimeter contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'WE DANCE ROUND IN A RING AND SUPPOSE, BUT THE SECRET SITS IN THE MIDDLE AND KNOWS'. Centre of grid contains BULL, suggesting a dartboard; converting numbers around a dartboard to letters gives a cyclic sequence ARDMFJOBQCSGPHKNILET; the four perimeter answers are encoded by moving each letter forward in the sequence the number of places given by its position in the word."	
3766	20/03/2004	Double Cross?	Ploy	169	2	"Four answers consist of two creatures next to each other: CHAR-PIE, MAN-TUAN, BUG-BEAR, WOLF-RAM; eight others are to be jumbled to achieve this, e.g. METAPHRASE becomes HAMSTER-APE. Central column contains CHIMERISM (unclued)."	
3767	27/03/2004	A Decoy	Ark	196	2	"18 clues must have J, R or P inserted or removed before solving. Each row has an unchecked square which would need to contain two letters to accommodate the light; one is to be removed. Making one choice and reading in row order spells 'LORD OF THE FLIES', whose main characters are JACK, RALPH and PIGGY - but the third does not appear in the grid; making the other choice and reading in column order spells 'THE CORAL ISLAND' (to be written beneath the grid), whose main characters are JACK, RALPH and PETERKIN, which do appear in the grid."	
3768	03/04/2004	What's Missing?	Piccadilly	169	1	"Clues are DLM, with clues to words in the same row or column run together. Down answers lose birds on entry (sometimes straddling pairs of answers); empty squares are to be shaded, spelling BIRDS."	
3769	10/04/2004	Miscellaneous Pieces	MynoT	121	4	"From answers, only odd letters and then the final letter are entered, e.g. LINCRUSTA becomes LNRSAA; reading from top left corner to top right corner via the centre spells ODDS AND ENDS."	
3770	17/04/2004	Journey	Arcturus	149	1	"Grid represents SE England; down answers are enciphered by writing the alphabet (less Z) above the codephrase and replacing letters from the latter by those above them (so that some letters may have various possible encipherings and others may have none). All unchecked letters in down answers may be enciphered unambiguously except for two, located at London and Canterbury; a knight's tour from one to the other spells PILGRIMAGE (to be highlighted)."	A verray parfit gentil knyght
3771	24/04/2004	First Principles	Nibor	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are presented in alphabetical order of answers, with subsidiary indications involving one or two extra letters in each case; these are the symbols for chemical elements with atomic numbers 1 to 42 and thus give the grid numbers of the lights."	
3772	01/05/2004	1450?	Ix	192	1R	"Top and bottom rows, clued without definition, are RUPERT BROOKE and GRANTCHESTER; remainder of grid is in two identical halves. At each location the clues are given in random order; one of each pair is LL (spelling 'IS THERE HONEY STILL FOR TEA?'), and the other (whose light is jumbled) is MP, with the correct letter being that omitted in the LL clue. (Title suggests 'ten to three'.)"	
3773	08/05/2004	Ill-defined	Bufo viridis	169	2	Definitions in across clues have been altered in various ways; answers are altered in the same ways on entry.	
3774	15/05/2004	Overview	Charybdis	169	1	"Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'YOU CAN'T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES'; six trees or shrubs (DALI, HOLLY, CORNEL, GORSE, SCROG, COLA) are unclued. One letter in each is to be changed so that the crossing light becomes a wood (BRAKE, FRITH, GROVE, JUNGLE, SHAW, MONTE); the changed letters form BIRNAM, to be copied into blank squares (creating new words), with DUNSINANE to be highlighted."	
3775	22/05/2004	A Trifling Puzzle	Arepo	144	2	"Unclued lights have anagrams which are synonyms (or variant forms); clues are MP, spelling definitions of three further examples: 'TO GRIN', 'TO TAP', 'BY CONFUSION, THE TAHR' (the words being GIRN, PAT, THAR). One unclued light AUBRIETIA does not quite fit the theme but has two variant forms which do: the taxonomically correct AUBRIETA is to be written beneath the grid."	
3776	29/05/2004	The Powers That Be	Trev	144	4	Numerical puzzle; each light is a power of an integer (only one of which appears twice in the clues).	
3777	05/06/2004	Lacunae	Kea	144	2	"Some clues contain words in which a letter is to be replaced by a lacuna, e.g. Sophoclean becomes Soph clean; removed letters spell O, I ABHOR A GAP. Remaining answers are entered with blank squares; 11 are then filled with the removed letters to form new words, the added letters themselves forming AGORAPHOBIA entered stepwise."
3778	12/06/2004	Home Run	Viking	165	2	"Central row contains the unclued light BLOOMSDAY (the date being 16/06/1904); three clues contain combined letter-mixtures of STEPHEN/TELEMACHUS, LEOPOLD/ODYSSEUS, MOLLY/PENELOPE, with the first name forming the light and the second to be written beneath the grid. Remaining clues contain superfluous words, whose fourth or fifth letters spell 'THOSE LONG WORDS ... WHICH MAKE US SO UNHAPPY'; perimeter contains CRESTFALLEN, ANGSTRIDDEN, UNFORTUNATE, CONTENTLESS. The unused fourth and fifth letters spell HIRED, EMPLOYED and REDUNDANT, LAID OFF, IDLE respectively, referring to another quotation: 'Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job'."
3779	19/06/2004	Autobiography	Tiburon	144	2	"Each answer is entered misprinted, spelling ONE LETTER FROM EACH CLUE AS KEYED BY CLUE NUMBER; taking these yields TREATING A TO M AS DOTS INTERPRET GRID AS BRAILLE; doing so yields '(The) STORY OF MY LIFE' - HELEN KELLER. Certain lettered squares contain TUSCUMBIA (her birthplace) and ANNE SULLIVAN (her mentor)."
3780	26/06/2004	Exemplary Clues	Waterloo	196	1	"21 clues lack definition, but are examples of the lights, e.g. 'Not exactly tidy toilets' leads to LITOTES."
3781	03/07/2004	One or Two?	Aedites	210	2	"48 squares each contain two letters, either two from one light in an unchecked square or two clashing letters. In each case the pair form an abbreviation of an American state (apart from Alaska and Hawaii), correctly located; centre of top row contains USA, to be shaded."
3782	10/07/2004	Alibi	Auctor	144	2	"Each answer loses a letter on entry, omissions being in alphabetical order. The omitted letters affect definitions in other clues, by being omitted, being inserted, replacing another letter or being replaced; in clue order these spell parts of a quotation: '(Elsewhere, vast) HERDS (of) REINDEER (move across) MILES (and miles of) GOLDEN MOSS, (Silently and) VERY FAST', from 'The Fall of ROME' by W.H. AUDEN (these last to be highlighted in the grid)."
3783	17/07/2004	Bard Puzzle	His Nibs	144	1R	"Bottom row contains 'ALL THE WORLD'S (a stage)'; unclued lights, appropriately placed, are 'gods' (CRONUS, OSIRIS), 'balcony' (VERANDAH), 'dress-circle' (FROCK, ORBIT), 'stalls' (DELAY, HEDGE), 'boxes' (CASES, SPARS), 'wings' (TALARIA, HASTENS)."
3784	24/07/2004	Part Exchange	Obiter	169	2	"Ten clues are double: the definitions refer to the lights, while the subsidiary indications refer to the words obtained by interchanging their ends (of 2 or more letters)."
3785	31/07/2004	Crosspatch	Dipper	144	2	Eight rows contain vegetables; two contain jumbles of vegetables; the other two contain words from which vegetables have been removed. Down lights are jumbled.
3786	07/08/2004	Destroy After Reading	Phi	195	2	"Some across lights spill over into extra columns at sides, spelling CHANGE THESE; the overflowing letters are to be altered to form new words. Some down clues contain superfluous words, defining the new words; initial or final letters of definitions in remaining down clues must be changed before solving."
3787	14/08/2004	John (a Dedication)	Gos	225	2	"Theme is 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins (WC = John): FAIRLIE, HARTRIGHT, GLYDE, HALCOMBE appear at centres of edges and FOSCO in middle of central column; a diamond shape contains WH-ANNE CATHERICK-ITE, to be highlighted."
3788	21/08/2004	Wealth	Lucan	169	2	"Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell LAWS NEED TO BE BROKEN TO FINISH THIS CROSSWORD; remaining clues (asterisked) lack definitions and lead to jumbles of GAY-LUSSAC, MURPHY, VERNER, PARKINSON, CHARLES, GRIMM, GRESHAM, SNELL. In the grid LAW is to be highlighted; title is an anagram of THE LAW."
3789	28/08/2004	Spotless	IOA	56	2R	"Numerical puzzle; completed grid comprises the 28 dominoes arranged in a 7 x 8 rectangle, and the positions of those including a 6 are to be highlighted."
3790	04/09/2004	Treatment for Bill	Ark	144	2	"Ten normal clues have answers which when preceded by the grid numbers lead to the lights, e.g. GALLON at 36 Across gives BARREL (= 36 GALLONs). Remaining across clues have extra letters spelling MEASURE FOR MEASURE; each of the remaining down clues contains a measure which must be moved to replace that in the next clue."
3791	11/09/2004	Circular Saw	Samson	160	1	"Grid is circular, with 8-letter radial lights entered jumbled; two adjacent letters in each are placed in the outer shell, spelling 'O TO RULE THEM ALL, O TO FIND THEM, O TO BRING THEM ALL AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM'. Unclued lights are 'FOR MORTAL MEN', 'FOR THE DWARF LORDS', 'FOR THE ELVEN KINGS'; the instances of O in the grid form three rings of nine, seven and three respectively intersecting the appropriate unclued lights, and all other cells (and the centre) are to be shaded."
3792	18/09/2004	Cswd	Gnomon	144	2	"Each answer loses any letters which are equal to those symmetrically placed about its centre, e.g. INDICATIONS becomes IDCTOS."
3793	25/09/2004	Debut	Athene	144	2	"Clues are MP, spelling 'I THINK IT WOULD BE FUN TO RUN A NEWSPAPER' - C.F. KANE. Ten answers are replaced by the relevant names from the film 'Citizen Kane', with WELLES replacing LEAD, COWRITER, DIRECTOR and PRODUCER."	
3794	02/10/2004	One Across [The Third Man]	Adam	144	2	"Clues are in three groups, each containing six across and six down: 'Anagram' clues lead to a word to which a letter must be added and an anagram formed to create the light; 'Definition' clues contain definitions of the 'Anagram' lights; 'Normal' clues lead to lights which each confirm one of the extra letters. The extra letters may be arranged to form GRAHAM GREENE."	
3795	09/10/2004	Koeql Haeospo [Giant Despair]	Elgin	169	2	"Four lights are Playfair-coded; 16 others lose a letter on entry, spelling CHRISTIAN + HOPEFUL, which escape from a central region in the shape of a CASTLE (to be shaded) formed where the letters of DOUBTING occur in the grid."	Promise
3796	16/10/2004	Theme and Variations	Jago	144	2	"The lights JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART, CHARLES EDWARD STUART, LAMBERT SIMNEL and PERKIN WARBECK are clued by definitions; PRETENDERS is to be highlighted in NE-SW diagonal."	
3797	23/10/2004	NO SPEAR	? [Vlad the Compiler]	196	2	"Title is NEW PERSONA; seven clues are MP, spelling VLAD THE; setter is an anagram of unclued lights VAMPIRE and OLD LETCH, with others being ORDER OF THE DRAGON, WALLACHIA, BLEEDER, PRETTY YOUNG FEMALES, PUN. Four lights lose A, B, AB or O on entry while four others gain POST, STAKE, POINT and TIP, in each case forming new words."	
3798	30/10/2004	12 Down Part 1 [Posy]	Charybdis	169	2	"In 17 squares portions of lights contribute to form names of flowers, to be replaced by dots and joined in an order specified in the preamble to create a flower; in most clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling 'IL Y'A DES FLEURS PARTOUT POUR QUI VEUT BIEN LES VOIR' - H. MATISSE."	
3799	06/11/2004	Fireworks	Sabre	144	4	"In each set of four symmetrically positioned lights, two are entered normally, one is jumbled and one encoded using a simple substitution cipher; the last are unclued, and are names of volcanoes."	
3800	13/11/2004	A Numerical Puzzle	Waterloo	121	1	"Each light is entered within its row or column in a sequence of squares, each reached from its predecessor by counting on the number of squares equal to the grid number (and treating the first row or column as following the last)."	
3801	20/11/2004	A Piece of Cake	Gioconda	144	2	"Nine lights in each direction are formed by adding a word fragment to the answer; these fragments are to be paired to form names of cakes with letters removed, these forming LAMINGTON (to be written beneath the grid)."	
3802	27/11/2004	One Off	Elap	100	4	"Numerical puzzle; the clue for each light is the digits in ascending order, but with many replaced by blanks. Each light is one less than a perfect square."	
3803	04/12/2004	R & L	Schadenfreude	144	1R	"Grid is blank, with clues across and down given in order. Only letters exhibiting MIRROR SYMMETRY (unclued), i.e., A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y, are entered"	
3804	11/12/2004	Pieces of Eight	Ascot	133	4R	"All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares. Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'SENSIBLE MEN ARE ALL OF THE SAME RELIGION', from 'ENDYMION' by DISRAELI (unclued)."	
3805	18/12/2004	Stocking Up	Arcturus	143	2	"Most clues are MP, spelling ''TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS'; thematic across clues lead either to creatures, entered jumbled with A removed (as in 'NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING') or to mice with only letters in odd positions entered (as in 'NOT EVEN A MOUSE'). Four outlines of stockings in the grid contain CD/WINE, TOKEN/SWEET, GIFT/NUT and SCOTCH/TIE, thus resolving any ambiguities in jumbled entries."	
3806	01/01/2005	New Year's Revolution	Kea	144	4	"Each letter of the alphabet is to be systematically replaced by a symbol obtained by drawing lines joining midpoints of edges of the square concerned; the correspondence between letters and symbols is to be discovered. One quarter of the lights are entered with the grid in each of the four possible orientations, so that squares traversed using different orientations reveal equivalences; a series of symbols at the sides of the grid may then be interpreted as 'SHADE THE FOUR LARGE DIGITS BOUNDED BY SYMBOLS', referring to 2005 which may then be seen outlined in the completed grid. Initial letters of clues, followed by final letters, spell TRIBUTE TO THE PUZZLES 'NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION', 'PIG-IN-THE-MIDDLE' AND 'RUSSIAN REVOLUTION' BY DIMITRY."	
3807	08/01/2005	Keys	MynoT	144	1R	"GUIDO D'AREZZO, TONIC SOL-FA and SCALES are unclued; the last of these and thematic lights DULCIAN, BASSOON, THEORBO, UKELELE, TOM-TOM, LYRICON, VIHUELA, BANDORA, TIMPANO (clued without definition) are entered with internal blank squares. Subsidiary indications in clues invove extra letters, spelling BLACK OUT UNUSED CELLS - HIGHLIGHT HIS SYLLABLES; the first of these produces five black piano keys appropriately placed, while UT, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA appear at the feet of the first six white keys."	
3808	15/01/2005	Join the Dots	Merlin	169	2	"Lights are to be entered in pencil; in 25 squares letters clash, and a dot is to be entered, (conceptually) numbered by the numerical difference between the two letters. The dots are to be joined in order to form an inverted picture of a SNOWMAN (to be inked in over NVWMONS in centre of top row, with the extra bar added to convert V to A), and eyes (O), nose (inverted A) and mouth (O) inked in as well."	
3809	22/01/2005	Inferno III - Circles III and IV	Hellphire	144	2	"Top half of grid represents the Third Circle of Hell: across clues to five of the six rows are double, with one answer normal and the other a glutton, which must lose a letter (spelling a jumble of DANTE) to form another word and be surrounded by RAIN, HAIL, MUD, MIRE or SNOW on entry. Each of three down clues is a triple definition to three words differing in their initial (unchecked) letters, which lie in the remaining row; the correct choice produces CERBERUS (to be highlighted) in the centre of the row. Bottom half of grid represents the Fourth Circle of Hell: answers to across clues are entered with weights reversed (e.g. ANNOUNCE becomes ANNECNUO). Subsidiary indications in remaining down clues involve extra letters, spelling PLUTUS: 'PAP? SATAN ALEPPE'; the spoken words also appear as unclued lights, with the second extended to SATANIST."
3810	29/01/2005	High and Low	Bandmaster	182	1	"28 normal clues lead to answers clashing in 14 squares; taking one choice in each in order spells AURORA BOREALIS. Remaining clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INITIAL VOLUME OF 'HIS DARK MATERIALS', leading to NORTHERN LIGHTS, which must be entered in the clashing squares; this produces EMBANKMENT, WATERLOO, WARREN STREET, BALHAM, BRENT CROSS, MOORGATE, BANK, ANGEL, COLINDALE, GOODGE STREET, HIGHGATE, COLLIER'S WOOD reading across, and the normal light OVAL must be hghlighted as another underground station on the Northern line."
3811	05/02/2005	Murder Mystery	Gos	169	2	"A diagonal contains LOOK HERE, with the final square the start of ELLERY (reading upwards) QUEEN (reading backwards), the whole forming an arrow pointing to a 3 x 3 square containing THE BUTLER (reading boustrophedon). All lights containing squares concerned are jumbled."
3812	12/02/2005	Plea	Loda	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words (whose initial letters spell A SINGLE RED ROSE; MUSIC PLAYING; CANDLELIT TABLE; CHAMPAGNE ON ICE) and extra letters (spelling THE BEATLES - 'ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE'; FRANK SINATRA - 'THREE LITTLE WORDS'). Squares containing O must be joined by a red line, forming the outline of a heart; letters in penultimate row, spelling BE MY VALENTINE, must also be entered in red."
3813	19/02/2005	Organised	Mr Magoo	144	1R	"Grid initially has only some bars, indicating a division into nine 4 x 4 'tiles', with the top left squares of each labelled by letters spelling ORGANISED when read in normal order; other bars are to be entered within tiles. Clues are in normal order and subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling MOVE THE D AND SLIDE THE TILES (across) and INRO, ARES, SING, OARS, SEAR, RAIN (down); the bottom right tile is blank, and moving tiles (complete with internal bars) in the order given by the six 4-letter words results in a new symmetric grid having the blank tile at bottom right and with all lights still words."
3814	26/02/2005	Call Changes	Aedites	120	2	"Numerical puzzle; lights, labelled by letters in random order (with upper and lower case for across and down respectively), run from the end of a row or column to its beginning as necessary, and are all 5-digit, representing different permutations of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The 10 positional transpositions are represented by <1>, <2>, ..., <10> in some order, and each clue gives the light as obtained from another by applying a transposition. When the digits are correctly identified, a sequence of 9 lights beginning with 12345, with each obtained from the one before by applying an 'adjacent' transposition  (12), (23), (34)  or  (45)  (as in bell-ringing), has labels spelling CamPAnILe (to be written beneath the grid)."
3815	05/03/2005	Mission Accomplished	Duck	154	2	"Central row contains ENGLISH CHANNEL (unclued); letters forming VODKA, GIN, CIDER, BEER, PORT are removed at any point from the across answers in each of the rows in the bottom half of the grid, and inserted at any point in the across answers in the corresponding rows in the top half."
3816	12/03/2005	Echoes	Auctor	144	2	"Each light begins in a different square, and clues are given in numerical order. All but five of the clues are to be treated cyclically, and in each the definition has been moved to the next in the sequence; these lights are entered misprinted, with the misprints spelling 'HIGH CAPITAL OF SATAN AND HIS PEERS'. The other clues lack definitions and lead to PANDAEMONIUM (which begins the quotation), ASTARTE, BELIAL, BEELZEBUB and MOLOCH, with the last four entered jumbled; MILTON (the author) appears jumbled in asterisked squares."
3817	19/03/2005	"Tom, Dick & Harry"	Hubris	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling THE GREAT ESCAPE BY RAF POWS FROM STALAG LUFT THREE; twelve answers lose a jumble of POW on entry."
3818	26/03/2005	Split Personalities	Athene	144	4	"Clues have exchanged either definitions or subsidiary indications in pairs; four perimeter 8-letter lights each consist of two 4-letter words, with one exchanged to form MEMO-CARD, TEST-RISE, LEAP-LIPS, GYMS-YEAR; main diagonal contains MAD AS A HATTER (to be highlighted)."
3819	02/04/2005	A Musical Crossword	Electra	210	2	"Puzzle celebrating 75th anniversary of first Listener puzzle: across clues contain extra characters, spelling 2 APR 1930 LISTENER CROSSWORD NO. 1; down clues are MP, spelling GGAGCB GGAGDC GGGECBA FFECDC (the notes of the tune 'Happy Birthday to you'). Eight lights are names of symphonies and must be shaded to form the numerals 75; their numbers sum to 4 (ITALIAN) + 9 (NEW WORLD) + 3 (SCOTCH) + 3 (EROICA) + 3 (POLISH) + 41 (JUPITER) + 9 (CHORAL) + 3 (RHENISH) = 75."
3820	09/04/2005	Disappearance	Sabre	144	2	"15 answers have extra letters interpolated; when shaded, these squares form the letters H E L L. Main diagonal, read twice and splitting near the end to read down and across, reads 'WEAVE THE WARP (and) WEAVE THE WOOF'; the quotation continues 'GIVE AMPLE ROOM, AND VERGE ENOUGH THE CHARACTERS OF HELL TO TRACE'."
3821	16/04/2005	A Little Light Amusement	Ploy	142	2	"Subsidiary indications lead to misprints of lights; incorrect letters spell DOUBLE BARS ACT AS MIRRORS: DRAW LIGHT RAYS: SHADE A NAME. Six lights starting or finishing at a double bar are entered in reverse; a path from top right to bottom left, reflected at these double bars at various points, spells 'THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS'; ALICE is to be shaded."
3822	23/04/2005	Give and Take	Radix	191	2	"Across clues contain extra letters, spelling BEEEEEFMNOOORRRSTTTVW; these must be transferred to the down clues, spelling 'EVEN FROM WORSE TO BETTER'. Perimeter (read as top and bottom rows then first and last columns) contains the beginning of the quotation 'CHANGE IS NOT MADE WITHOUT INCONVENIENCE' and SAMUEL JOHNSON, who in SEVENTEEN FIFTY-FIVE (unclued) quoted it in the preface to his English Dictionary, the author being RICHARD (central down light, to be highlighted) HOOKER (to be written beneath the grid)."
3823	30/04/2005	'Orrible Sextet	Mespot	169	2	"Title is an anagram of BRISTOL-EXETER, which journey is represented in the grid; central column contains M FIVE MOTORWAY, crossing rivers AVON, YEO, AXE, PARRETT, TONE, CULM, CLYST, whose letters are omitted in subsidiary indications in clues."
3824	07/05/2005	Long Division	Schadenfreude	169	2	"On initial solving, 13 squares are empty, while the central column of unchecked letters contains THE BERLIN WALL; these 13 letters are to be redistributed among the empty squares so that all lights are still words."
3825	14/05/2005	Absolutely Not	Merlin	196	2	"Half the clues in each direction are MP, spelling ALBERT EINSTEIN and ANNUS MIRABILIS; other clues are LL, spelling LORENTZ-FITZGERALD CONTRACTION. Taking one letter from the answer to each MP clue in order gives the phrase 'THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY'; shading all occurrences of these letters in these answers forms  E = mc?."
3826	21/05/2005	New for Old	Samson	144	2	"Central across light is STADIA; down lights lose fragments spelling FILBERT STREET, MAINE ROAD, THE DELL, ROKER PARK, AYRESOME PARK in order, while perimeter contains (unclued) the replacements WALKERS [Stadium], CITY OF MANCHESTER [Stadium], ST. MARY'S [Stadium], [Stadium] OF LIGHT, RIVERSIDE [Stadium]."
3827	28/05/2005	The Latin Squire	Arden	64	2	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  stand for the numbers from 1 to 26 in some order, and clues are in terms of them. In the completed grid each digit from 0 to 7 appears once in each row and column; a knight's tour may then be traced, starting at a 0 (to be highlighted) and proceeding via 1, 2, ..., 7, 0, 1, ... to end at a 7 in one of the four central squares."
3828	04/06/2005	The Plays of the Bard XI	Salamanca	168	8R	"Grid is circular, with all but seven radial lights entered inward; the remainder are entered jumbled, with subsidiary indications involving extra letters spelling a jumble of DUCDAME. Outer circle contains ''TIS A GREEK INVOCATION TO CALL FOOLS IN[to a circle]'; fourth circle contains LAVACHE, TRINCULO, TOUCHSTONE, COSTARD."
3829	11/06/2005	OO! Spectacles?	Waterloo	144	2	"In each clue the subsidiary indication includes at least one example of reference to a letter or combination of letters by approximate visual resemblance, e.g. 'pylon' = A, 'costermonger's barrow' = TO, 'parcel' = 'EEI'."
3830	18/06/2005	Dates	Pieman	144	2	"Some squares contain two letters each; some down answers are anagrams of the lights with letters removed, spelling a jumble of WATERLOO. Across clues are MP, spelling ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-5, the difference in years (to the day) between the Battle of Waterloo (18/06/1815) and the speech 'THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR' - WINSTON CHURCHILL, to be highlighted in the grid by starting just before the first square and counting forward 1, 8, 0, 6, 1, 9, 4, 0 places and then repeating (the squares containing two letters being the places where the count is 0)."
3831	25/06/2005	In the Bush	Gioconda	144	2	"Twelve clues lack definitions: six of the lights are 'a bird in the hand' (PA-ALICE-W, MI-PETRA-TT, P-RENE-UD, F-ETHEL-IST, DE-BEA-AL, S-NINA-TYLE), while the other six are 'two in the bush' (DO-TESS+ADA-G, M-JO+LENA-AN, T-MEG+IVY-EA, FL-LIZ+MO-Y, CA-DI+MATTY-T, T-PIA+JEN-IT, in each case the surrounding word being one which can be prefaced by 'BUSH-'). Two other lights IRIS and GILL must be highlighted."
3832	02/07/2005	Assistance for the Solver	Phi	156	1	"Each row (except one) contains two lights, with one letter transferred from one to the other, spelling BAKER STREET; each column (except three) contains two lights, with one jumbled and the other LL, spelling IRREGULARS. Remaining across light is WIGGINS; those down are '[The] CROOKED MAN', '[The] SIGN [of] FOUR', '[A] STUDY [in] SCARLET'."
3833	09/07/2005	Daylight Shrubbery	Dipper	144	2	"Clues concern gardening; definitions (if not normal) have been beheaded, jumbled, moved to another clue or surrounded by other letters to form a longer word."
3834	16/07/2005	Sketch	Aedites	144	2	"In 14 clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling BLACKETT, WALKER; perimeter contains ARTHUR RANSOME WROTE THE NOVEL 'SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS' (published 21/07/1930). In 8 squares clashes are resolved by entering dots, which must be joined to form a picture of a sailboat."
3835	23/07/2005	Down Under	Emkay	196	1	"All lights are entered from indicated starting squares with a right angle turn at some point. Bottom row contains THE OCEAN BOTTOM; reading upwards, centres of rows above give DIVERS - IF THEY COME UP FAST THIS WILL HAPPEN. The first of these words is to be removed and entered at the top of the grid, with a turn at each point; below it THE BENDS is to be entered."
3836	30/07/2005	Part Exchange	Hubris	144	2	"In each clue to a perimeter light, the subsidiary indication leads to the word formed by replacing part of the light by its opposite, e.g. PLUNDERS/PLOVERS, TALLIES/SHORTIES."
3837	06/08/2005	The Devil's Own	Obiter	196	2	"The 14 unclued lights are both ordinary words and Dickensian names, and occur in 7 crossing pairs with letters in intersections forming an arrangement of DICKENS."
3838	13/08/2005	Carte Blanche en Plus	Tiburon	161	2	"Only the perimeter squares are given, with the remainder to be constructed; some of these are larger or smaller than usual. Clues are given in order; six are normal, with the total number of their letters equal to that in the completed grid; subsidiary indications in the rest involve extra letters, spelling 'EVER-DIMINISHING SUBDIVISIONS OF A BASIC GEOMETRIC SHAPE', part of the Chambers definition of FRACTAL, to be highlighted in squares of decreasing size readng from the centre."
3839	20/08/2005	A Game of 2 [Dibs]	Glow-worm	225	2	"Ten clues contain superfluous three-letter groups, spelling IMPOSING, LOGAN, PUDDING, SATIN, ALTAR, all of which can be followed by STONE and appear as jumbles as unclued lights; their initials can be arranged to form LAPIS, which replaces JEWEL as a light; DIBS, FIVE, STONES, BACK OF THE HAND are also unclued. Perimeter contains 'AND HE TOOK HIS STAFF IN HIS HAND AND CHOSE [FIVE] SMOOTH [STONES] OUT OF THE BROOK'."
3840	27/08/2005	Telling Fibs	Amicus	92	4R	"Numerical puzzle; the letters  A, B, C, ..., Z  (excluding  I  and  O)  stand for the Fibonacci numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ..., 75025 in some order, and clues are in terms of them."
3841	03/09/2005	Foreign Parts	Sabre	144	2	"Grid has numbers but no bars. Certain lights are entered with two consecutive letters in one square; these squares lie in three unclued lights, where making one choice of letter gives the countries LILLIPUT, BROBDINGNAG, LAPUTA and the other gives the capital cities MILDENDO, LORBRULGRUD, LAGADO. Three clued lights are entered diagonally (after the method of writing in Lilliput); three answers ADMINISTRATION, HIGH PRIEST, SECRETARY OF STATE are replaced by RUNNING SORE, GOUT, GIBBET which are thought to signify them in Laputa; one down light is determined by the requirement that the grid contain just 22 different letters, as the alphabet in Brobdingnag."
3842	10/09/2005	Long Division	Duck	192	2	"In each row containing lights, one has a letter omitted, spelling LOT'S WIFE; down clues are MP, spelling 'THERE IS A SEASON' - SEEGER; central column (formed from jumbled lights entered diagonally) contains SODIUM CHLORIDE."
3843	17/09/2005	Safe-cracking	Kea	144	2	"Twelve clues are normal; initial letters of these are found in order in a circle in the grid, representing the dial of a safe. Clues are presented in five groups (and are in alphabetical order in each); all lights are LL, spelling LEFT SIX, RIGHT FOUR, LEFT FIVE, RIGHT TWO, LEFT ELEVEN. Applying these rotations sequentially to the dial enables REPLACE STRING OF DIAMONDS WITH PASTE REPLICA to be read; after the final rotation twelve letters D form a connected string, and replacing these with PASTE REPLICA reveals FINGERPRINTS (to be highlighted)."
3844	24/09/2005	No Penalty	Charybdis	144	2	"All down lights are jumbled. Half the answers to across clues gain an additional letter initially or terminally to form another word; if the others do likewise, the extra letters (placed outside the grid) spell THINKING. Unclued across lights are EDWARD DE BONO (associated with LATERAL THINKING) and JOHN OF GAUNT (suggesting THIN KING). Title suggests THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX."
3845	01/10/2005	Prestissimo	Bandmaster	154	1	"All clues except three contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell A SHAM LATIN CORRUPTION OF HOC EST CORPUS POSSIBLY, suggesting HOCUS-POCUS; ABRACADABRA is unclued. The magic act has three components: cutting the lady in half (HALF-CUT and CUTLASS becoming HALFCUTLASS); pulling the rabbit out of the hat (BALIBUNTAL losing BUN to become BALITAL); and LEVITATION, which moves from the bottom row to the top, being replaced by HOCUSPOCUS and displacing the unclued WANDMASTER (the composer's new stage-name), which moves above the grid (all new down lights still being words)."
3846	08/10/2005	Whodunnit	Schadenfreude	225	2	"In each row or column lights lose a total of two letters on entry, to be transferred to the perimeter, spelling BEETLE, BULL, COCK, THRUSH, HEN, KITE, WREN, OWL, DOVE, ROOK, LINNET, FISH, LARK; thirteen clues contain superfluous words, defining these. In the grid COCK ROBIN is pierced by an ARROW fired from a BOW by the SPARROW, watched by the FLY; all of these appear diagonally and are to be highlighted."
3847	15/10/2005	Pseudo-clue	BeRo	169	2	"After the grid had been completed, all letters A to G and Q to Z are to be removed from the central 9 x 9 square; this must then be filled in ""sudoku"" style, with each letter from H to P appearing once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square. The central column of this square then contains HIJKLMNOP, to be viewed as a ""pseudo-clue"", with wordplay HIJKLMNO (i.e., H2O) and definition P, leading to WATER (to be highlighted with P)."
3848	22/10/2005	Full Card	Mr Magoo	169	2	"Numbered clues have anagrammed definitions, or must have lights either anagrammed or entered at another numbered location. Remaining clues have lights which must be entered misprinted at locations to be deduced, with correct letters spelling 'TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC'. Ten unclued lights are names of dances, which then gain an extra letter in the corner of one square so as to form either alternative spellings or different dances (with changes to unchecked letters), together with new crossing lights; the extra letters spell HAY-DE-GUISE."
3849	29/10/2005	Bengo Drums	Arcturus	144	2	"Each odd-numbered light is a word formed by inserting somewhere in the answer to the clue an extra letter, spelling 'THERE IS DIVINITY ...'; the quotation continues '... in odd numbers'. (Title is GOD in jumbled NUMBERS.)"
3850	05/11/2005	Void	Athene	169	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous word; the central two or three letters from those in down clues spell I SING OF THESE ANSWERS JUMBLED AND THE OTHERS CHANGED TO OPPOSITE DISCARD. Accordingly, each down light is jumbled while each across light is replaced by a word defined by the superfluous word in the clue in the symmetrically opposite position; in this way JOVE becomes SWAN, DAPHNE becomes LAUREL, ACIS becomes RILL, TEREUS becomes HOOPOE and NIOBE becomes STONE, with OVID and METAMORPHOSES also appearing (these seven lights are to be highlighted)."
3851	12/11/2005	Dead or Alive?	Merlin	169	2	"Sixteen clues are MP, spelling SCHROEDINGER'S CAT. In leading diagonal central seven squares contain clashes, giving possible readings CAT FULL OF ZEST and CAT LAID TO REST; the latter is required to make opposite diagonal read I OPENED THE BOX."
3852	19/11/2005	20 [Torus Spiral]	10 [Dimitry]	200	2R	"Grid is blank, to be thought of as a torus, and has 20 columns and 10 rows; all lights are 8-letter, with the second clue for each row belonging to another row. In the completed grid the actual title and setter appear along an endless spiral, to be drawn as a number of line segments beginning and ending at the edges of the grid."
3853	26/11/2005	Sevens and Threes	Elap	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues give certain lights as linear combinations of others with all digits in coefficients being 3 or 7, with not all lights being involved in the clues. Using  A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26  the completed grid reads SUM ALL THE GRID ENTRIES AND WRITE THE ANSWER UNDERNEATH THE GRID; the total is 3333333."
3854	03/12/2005	Not Again!	Woracle	100	2	"Each answer contains one or more repeated letters, to be removed on entry."
3855	10/12/2005	Musclied Miss Lued is Clumed	Ozzie	144	4	"Each definition has been altered by interchanging two letters, or misprinting or misplacing a single letter (as the title exemplifies with the word MISCLUED); each answer must similarly be adjusted to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication leads."
3856	17/12/2005	Two Little Words	Chef	156	2	"Central row contains CHIP AND PIN, describing unclued lights SLICE, PARE, CRISP, MONEY, KICK and PITCH, FASTEN, STAGE, COTTER, DOWEL. Pseudonym is puzzle number converted using  A = 1, B = 2  etc."
3857	24/12/2005	Crackers	Viking	195	2	"Down clues are MP, spelling PAPER HAT, MOTTO, BANG, RIDDLE, JOKE. Alternate rows have no bars; double clues are given in alphabetical order to the two words at the ends, with the central 'prize' (to be deduced) to be attached to one, shown by the insertion of a single bar e.g. ROLE MODEL | MANITO, ELDIN | MIRROR SITE."
3858	31/12/2005	Roots	Franc	144	1	"Grid is made up of equilateral triangles; lights begin in specified locations and adjacent letters occupy cells with a common boundary. Twenty-six lights are words of Native American origin, eighteen appearing in etymologies of headwords in Chambers; clues to the latter contain superfluous letter-mixtures of the headwords."
3859	07/01/2006	Ten	Xanthippe	169	2	"Locations of all but ten lights are to be determined. The ten numbered lights, clued without definition, form words or phrases when preceded by their clue numbers (1 MAN BAND, 2 FISTED, 3 LINE WHIP, 4 POSTER, 5 O'CLOCK SHADOW, 6 SHOOTER, 7 DEADLY SINS, 8 SOME REEL, 9 TO FIVE, 10 COMMANDMENTS); definitions of these appear as superfluous words in other clues."
3860	14/01/2006	Black Holes	Phi	144	2	"Ten clues have answers which are entered starting in unclued locations (either forwards or backwards), creating words; they then continue diagonally until they meet a 'black hole' at a vertex (to be marked) which swallows the remaining letters. The letters thus removed spell 'SINGULARITY IS ALMOST INVARIABLY A CLUE'."
3861	21/01/2006	School Wedding	Mash	169	1	"Most clues contain misprints, with correct letters spelling FEATHERS, ROSE, SHAMROCK, THISTLE, INTERNATIONAL. Lights in top and bottom rows are unclued; crossing lights for the most part have clues in which definition and subsidiary indication lead to words differing in one letter, allowing either LANSDOWNE RD or MURRAYFIELD in the top row and TWICKENHAM or MILLENNIUM in the bottom; central row contains GREEN V WHITE, determining that the former is correct in each case. 14 squares contain clashes; entering both letters in each case (with that from the across light always first) gives the abbreviations for the positions in a team for RUGBY UNION (cf. title), correctly placed - the fifteenth (H for hooker) is to be highlighted."
3862	28/01/2006	One or the Other	Obtrox	169	2	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of answers; columns and rows are labelled A-M and N-Z. In some clues the subsidiary indication leads to the answer with two extra letters, not necessarily consecutive, giving the co-ordinates of the initial square of the light; each of the others contains a superfluous word, whose initial letters spell INDETERMINABLE. Three rows contain HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, to be highlighted."
3863	04/02/2006	Grid References	Poat	169	2	"Four asterisked clues contain superfluous words WATER, PAPER, GRASS, GLUE, all capable of being preceded by RICE. Each other light clashes with another; in each case the letter from the across light is to be entered, spelling 'NOT THAT YOU WON OR LOST', while those from the down lights form 'HOW YOU PLAYED THE GAME' - the quotation's author is RICE, and 'ONE GREAT SCORER' is to be written beneath the grid."
3864	11/02/2006	Witness Protection	Gos	168	2	"20 clues contain superfluous synonyms of WITNESS; their answers are relocated and given new identities, i.e., they are entered elsewhere as anagrams."
3865	18/02/2006	Fallout	Lavatch	196	2	"In all clues, subsidiary indications ignore one letter of the answer. In 12 cases the light is entered in full and the letter is to be highlighted, spelling BHAGAVAD GITA along the SW-NE diagonal; in all other cases the letter is not entered in the light, but instead appears in an unchecked position in the perimeter, which contains 'I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS' - J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER; the unclued light is NAGASAKI."
3866	25/02/2006	Numbers Game	Polymath	79	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues concern Mersenne and twin primes, triangular numbers, Pythagorean triples and a certain Fibonacci-like sequence."
3867	04/03/2006	Mendelian	Arcturus	144	2	"Grid is blank; clues are MP, spelling 'BORROWERS OF BOOKS ... SPOILERS OF THE SYMMETRY'. All instances of the letter 'B' have been removed from the grid before cluing (for example changing BLACKBELT into two lights LACK and ELT); they must be replaced and the symmetric bar pattern inserted. One row contains LAMB'S LIBRARY (author of quotation), to be highlighted; title is really MEND ELIAN. "
3868	11/03/2006	Discretion	Hubris	144	2	Each clue contains a superfluous word; their first letters folllowed by their fourth letters spell ACROSS ENTRIES CAN BE LEFT TO RIGHT OR RIGHT TO LEFT AND SHOULD LITERALLY CONFORM TO THEIR DIRECTIONS. Accordingly each across light has at least one letter L or R changed to the other.
3869	18/03/2006	Navigator	Sabre	144	1	"Lights are entered normally, but many edges or bars between adjacent squares have been partially removed, making the grid into a maze; 'A MAZE WHEREIN AFFECTION FINDS NO END' may be traced from bottom left to top right. Six isolated squares are to contain RALEGH (author of the quotation), thus completing AMOUR, ALOHA, GOODWILL, STORGE, LIKING and WARMTH which may also be traced within the maze."
3870	25/03/2006	Heman 150	Llig	169	2	"Some clues are MP, spelling ROBERT (across) and HEINRICH (down); SCHUMANN and HEINE (both died 1856) are unclued; DICHTERLIEBE and LIEDERKREIS are to be highlighted in diagonals."
3871	01/04/2006	Subliminal Symbolism	Dolos	144	2	"Crossword is a lipogram, lacking most common symbol throughout; cluing is normal (with initials forming UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION and FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION), but lights omit all such symbols (always forming words) and/or gain blanks, which form 'e'."
3872	08/04/2006	Missing Character	Aragon	169	2	"Clues are LL, spelling BOARDGAME, DEPART, LIFE, STAB across and COOK, FARE, SUFFICE, SWINDLE down - these define GO and DO four times each. In the grid SAMUEL BECKETT CENTENARY (read mostly backwards and up) must be highlighted to form the final 't' of GODOT."
3873	15/04/2006	The Knight's Tail	Schadenfreude	156	2	"Each light is entered with a single misprint; when preceded by the top, middle and bottom rows these spell 'IT IS A PITY THAT CHAWCER, WHO HAD GENEYUS, WAS SO UNEDICATED. HE'S THE WUSS SPELLER I KNOW OF'. The author ARTEMUS WARD may be traced along knight's moves in the grid (resolving one ambiguity); the final letter of his name is to be highlighted."	
3874	22/04/2006	Big Boy	Ascot	182	2	"Ten clues are MP, spelling a mixture of ROY ORBISON (born 23/04/1936), to appear in the central row as an isolated unclued light; other unclued lights are 'OH PRETTY WOMAN', 'IT'S OVER', 'DREAM BABY', 'RUNNING SCARED' and 'ONLY THE LONELY'. 22 squares containing O are to be highlighted to form 'the big O'."	
3875	29/04/2006	Round Table?	Essira	144	16R	"Grid is circular, with all lights radial, occurring in pairs with one of each pair entered jumbled. The rings are numbered 1-6: ring 1 spells DMITRI MENDELEYEV and ring 3 PERIODIC ELEMENTS, while rings 4 and 6 contain chemical symbols of elements in periods 4 and 6 of the periodic table, with each two-letter symbol having its second letter entered in lower case."	
3876	06/05/2006	Grandfather	Aedites	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in 22 clues involve extra letters, spelling BASSOON: SERGEI PROKOFIEV; the latter is to be written underneath the grid, while squares in the shape of the former, spelling LARGE WOODWIND INSTRUMENT, are to be highlighted. (The composer's 'Peter and the Wolf', in which the grandfather is represented by a bassoon, was first performed in May 1936.)"	
3877	13/05/2006	Stroke Horizontally	Henry	156	2	"Clues are misprinted, with correct letters spelling THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT and ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. Three answers GLAMOUR, THEATRE and RAILWAY are replaced by the corresponding cats GRIZABELLA, GUS and SKIMBLESHANKS on entry; unclued lights are NAMING, CATS, MEMORY, AD-DRESSING, CAST and ACTS; pairs of cells containing MACAVITY are to be highlighted."	
3878	20/05/2006	Superfluous	Mr Magoo	144	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous letter or space, spelling LEE SUPERFLUX CHOC SEE TRESS NECESSAIRES; the last letters of these spell EXCESS, and their removal (together with that of one space) produces 'LE SUPERFLU, CHOSE TR?S N?CESSAIRE'. Eight letters, spelling VOLTAIRE, are to be removed from the grid and written below it; their removal turns eight across lights into the names of eight French cities with all crossing down lights still being words."	
3879	27/05/2006	Digital Diversion	Elap	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; in the clues, eighteen letters stand for 2- or 3-digit numbers such that each or its reverse is a perfect square. Several lights are unclued; each row/column or its reverse is a square, and the same is true of the SW-NE diagonal, about which the completed grid has symmetry as far as the digits (not the lights) are concerned. The sum of the lights is a number such that both it and its reverse are perfect square; its reverse (42263001) is to be written beneath the grid."	
3880	03/06/2006	Master ?	Gioconda	144	2	"Most clues are MP, spelling 'AND WHAT SHOULD MASTER ... PLAY BUT'; missing word GAUGER is to be written beneath the grid. Quotation continues '""OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY""?'; half the remaining lights have a synonym of HILL reversed on entry, while the other half lose FAR."	
3881	10/06/2006	Sixes and Sevens	Mordred	169	2	"All lights are 6- or 7-letter and are entered jumbled. Asterisked squares contain HERACLITUS, who wrote 'EVERYTHING FLOWS AND NOTHING STAYS' and 'THE ROAD UP AND THE ROAD DOWN ARE ONE AND THE SAME'; each column is palindromic."	
3882	17/06/2006	Pater & Son	Ploy	169	2	"Subsidiary indications involve either extra or missing letters, spelling ERASE ALL GRID ENTRIES THAT CONTAIN A NON-TITLE LETTER; doing this reveals the ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR wordsquare in the central odd-numbered rows and columns. Initial letters of clues spell AND ANOTHER ANCESTOR OF THE CROSSWORD IS THE ACROSTIC."	
3883	24/06/2006	Olde Treasure Hunt	Merlin	196	2	"First and last across lights are SHERLOCK and MUSGRAVE (unclued), identifying the basis of the puzzle as the Conan Doyle short story 'The Musgrave Ritual'. Across clues contain superfluous letters, spelling SUN OVER OAK, SHADOW UNDER ELM; those down contain superfluous letters or words, and taking lengths of the latter gives N 10 AND BY 10; E 5 AND BY 5; S 2 AND 2; W 1 AND 1. The lights SOAKED and HELM appear at the feet of the first and third columns; with the S as the sun over the OAK, the tip of the shadow of the ELM is the cell at the bottom of the sixth column. Starting here and following the path (north 10, north crossing X, east 5, east crossing V, south 2, south 2, west 1, west 1) spells TGNDAIWF, which both encodes and is encoded by SHERLOCK under a cipher in which pairs of letters are encoded as each other; a little beneath the end of the path appears the encrypted form of ANCIENT CROWN OF ENGLAND in the shape of a crown, to be highlighted in the grid and written en clair beneath it."	Sherlock
3884	01/07/2006	Yes	Mr E	156	2	"Each across light loses a letter on entry, spelling 'AULD ACQUAINTANCE'; in down clues each definition applies to a light elsewhere, and the light MIND must be prefaced by NEVER."	
3885	08/07/2006	4 [Heroes]	Lato	182	2	"Eight definition-only clues have answers REGARDANT, TALEA, RAMSGATE, IN GOAL, WROTHAM, PARTYING, BASE, BREADLINE; their locations must be determined. In remaining clues, subsidiary indications involve superfluous letters, spelling OMIT L[etter] AND MIX UP D[efinition-only] C[lue] A[nswer]; OMITTED L[etter]S SPELL K[eyword], MIXES ARE K[eyword] FOUR. This produces NATIONAL as the keyword with RAG TRADE, TEAL, SEAGRAM, ANGLO, MR. THAW, GAY TRIP, E.S.B., BINDAREE as 'NATIONAL HEROES', i.e. Grand National winners (and treating HEROES similarly gives HORSE). Other unclued lights are ERITREAN and RUSSIAN (both 'nationals'); treating the former similarly gives AINTREE while the latter refers to another winner RUSSIAN HERO. Finally the light CROWS OVER leads to the reversal of the noun of assembly MURDER, i.e., RED RUM, to be written beneath the grid; an acceptable alternative is CORBIERE, obtained as CROW'S OVER (with 'S = HAS)."	
3886	15/07/2006	5 Down [Hybridisation]	Panda	169	2	"The definition of each clue has been switched with that of its symmetric counterpart in the grid. Of the nine unclued lights, eight have definitions included as superfluous words or phrases in other clues. Each is an example of HYBRIDISATION: a hybrid is defined in Chambers as 'a word formed from elements of different languages', interpreted as I, F, Fe, Er, Re, N, Tl, La, U, Ag, Ge, Es, S, determining the ninth as FEERINS rather than FEARING or FEERING."	
3887	22/07/2006	Count Down to Re-entry	Shackleton	156	2	"First ten down clues are presented out of order, with locations to be determined; seven asterisks in squares indicate positions of clashes. Clues are MP, spelling CLASHES ARE WON BY DOWNS (across) and ORDER PER CLUES AND ENCODE (down). 'Losing' letters from across clues in clashes spell codeword; central four squares of rows 1, 4, 10 and 13 are to be Playfair-coded to form the centres of FRANZ LEHAR, BELA BARTOK, FRANZ LISZT and PETER LORRE. Central row contains BELA LUGOSI (unclued), with third letter replaced by U due to a clash; reordering letters in order of first ten down clues gives SIULUOAGBE, which on being encoded gives back BELA LUGOSI (died 16/08/1956)."	Goulash
3888	29/07/2006	REDHERRING	Tea Leaves	156	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SECOND AND TENTH LETTERS OF CLUES - EYE, FACE, HAND, NECK; last four words can all be preceded by RED and are red herrings, while rest of message produces SCAN ALL DIAGONALS - CENTRE OF GRID - AND KNIGHT'S MOVES; BLOATER, KIPPER, ROLLMOP - FIVE BY FOUR - SUPERIOR MODEL. Again red herrings must be ignored; central 5 x 4 area of grid contains TINTINNABULATE (= RING) surrounding EDHERR, thus enabling two clashes to be resolved."	
3889	05/08/2006	Neologification	Waterloo	144	1	"Only nine lights are words; the remainder 'have been arrived at by false scholaritude, whimse, hyperfeminism, poeticisation, up-to-dating, incorrect retroformation, etceterums' e.g. ALBA as the plural of ALBUM, HERPANIC as the feminine of HISPANIC, DERFED as the opposite of UNDERFED."
3890	12/08/2006	"Aah, Belt!"	Elfman	169	2	"Each of 26 clues contains a different superfluous letter; initial letters of these clues, in alphabetical order of superfluous letters, spell ES O U EN DE I EN SE ACH A EM BE E AR ES, the phonetic representation letter by letter of SOUND IN CHAMBERS. The main diagonals contain the letters of the alphabet in the alphabetical order of their phonetic representations (with the second pass through the central square ignored; the letter P is thus omitted, reflected in the title which is an anagram of ALPHABET less P)."
3891	19/08/2006	Deal	Dysart	156	2	"Subsidiary indications in across clues involve superfluous letters, spelling 'THOU ART A SOUL IN BLISS' (spoken by King Lear to Cordelia); top row contains ED-CORDELIA-EN. Rest of speech  is 'YOU DO ME WRONG TO TAKE ME OUT O' THE GRAVE ... BUT I AM BOUND UPON A WHEEL OF FIRE, THAT MINE OWN TEARS DO SCALD LIKE MOLTEN LEAD': bottom row originally contained CATA-LEAR-COMB, from which LEAR is to be removed and placed in four previously empty squares (creating new words), above INFLAMMATION arranged in a circle; these two words are to be highlighted, and MOLTEN LEAD written beneath the grid to explain the title."
3892	26/08/2006	Square Dancers' ...	Word Processor	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; full title is SQUARE DANCERS' FOUR + STEP CODE - BY (NUMBERS / WORD) - PROCESSOR. Each of these words and the others used in clues converts to a number by adding the numerical equivalents of its letters (using A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26); the arithmetical operations +, -, ., / must be replaced by /, ., +, - respectively here. Each light is a perfect square or cube; the five numbers 81, 64, 1, 729, 4096 obtained from the full title are used in eight other clues (with usual operations), where they have been replaced by v, w, x, y, z in some order. Each number base from 2 to 10 is used for one row and one column of the grid."
3893	02/09/2006	41 to 5	Schadenfreude	168	2	"Portions of across lights THREEPIT, TWO-PAIR, PRONE, AUTO-POINT and PENNYWEIGHT are entered numerically, so that first and last columns contain SUBTRACT 32 AND DIVIDE BY 1.8; in the centre of the grid FAHRENHEIT is to be replaced by CENTIGRADE in the shape of a C, forming new words."
3894	09/09/2006	In This Year	Loda	156	1	"Across lights are jumbled; clues contain superfluous letters, spelling TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-SIX across and JAMES LAVER - TASTE AND FASHION down. The latter is the source of the quotation 'THE SAME COSTUME WILL BE INDECENT 10 YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME, SHAMELESS 5 YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME, OUTR? (DARING) 1 YEAR BEFORE ITS TIME, SMART, DOWDY 1 YEAR AFTER ITS TIME, HIDEOUS 10 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, RIDICULOUS 20 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, AMUSING 30 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, QUAINT 50 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, CHARMING 70 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, ROMANTIC 100 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, BEAUTIFUL 150 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME'. The twelve adjectives appear in order in the rows of the grid (reading up from the bottom); RIDICULOUS is to be highlighted as the appropriate term in 2026."
3895	16/09/2006	Where & Tare	Dipper	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in clues involve superfluous letters, spelling KNOT-GRASS, GROUND ELDER, RAGWORT, GROUNDSEL, NETTLE; centre of main diagonal contains NIPPLEWORT, to be highlighted."
3896	23/09/2006	Chars	Pieman	121	2	"Some across clues are MP, spelling BROWNIE; KOBOLD and DOBBIE are clued without definition. One light in each column is misprinted on entry; the corrections spell LUBBER-FIEND and the original letters BOWL OF CREAM. The ninth letter is thus misprinted as itself; every ninth letter in the grid is to be highlighted, spelling DOMESTIC TASKS."
3897	30/09/2006	Two for the Price of One	Viking	169	2	"Nine clues contain a mixture of two words together with an extra letter, and a definition of one of the words; the other is the light. Each pair (e.g. SAFE and SOUND) is an example of HENDIADYS, formed from the extra letters and to be written beneath the grid."
3898	07/10/2006	Seconds Out	Nibor	169	2	"Clues contain superfluous words, whose second letters spell START CENTRE TOP; GO DIAGONALLY FORMING A CLOCK. Doing so and ignoring every second letter spells 'SPACE ODYSSEY', to be highlighted. The remaining part of the title is to be represented by drawing the hands of the clock to show the time 20:01."
3899	14/10/2006	A Game of 5 [Kiss-in-the-Ring]	Glow-worm	210	1	"Eight asterisked clues lack names of four boys and four girls; in each the definition refers to another of the eight. The names appear alternately in the grid in a ring (and HEAD-TO-HEAD, which is unclued) as NAVE-TESSA - RAGDE-ADA - DET-ENID - NALA-TINA; PETER and KATIE cross in the centre to form the KISS-IN-THE-RING when all names are highlighted. Perimeter contains 'THEN COME KISS ME, SWEET AND TWENTY, YOUTH'S A STUFF WILL NOT ENDURE'."
3900	21/10/2006	Dropouts	Aedites	160	2	"The main 12 x 12 grid is to be regarded as made up of sixteen 3 x 3 blocks, in each of which a certain letter is removed each time it occurs; the removed letters, all of which are different, are placed in a separate 4 x 4 grid, to which four bars are to be added so that all entries are words (RALE, CWM, NTH, DZOS in the rows and RIND, ACT, WHO, EMUS in the columns)"
3901	28/10/2006	The Plays of the Bard XII	Salamanca	144	2	"Each clue contains an extra word; taking in each case the letter of the word corresponding to the position of the word in the clue gives READ THE FOURTH LETTER OF EACH CLUE IN ORDER; doing so gives STRAIGHTLY OUTLINE THE PIE OF TAMORA'S SONS. In the grid CHIRON/DEMETRIUS appear in the shape of a pie, which is to be drawn using four lines."
3902	04/11/2006	Gong	Kea	169	1	"Clues are given 'Along' and 'Athwart'; the former lights are to be entered in a continuous spiral ending at the centre of the grid, with the latter crossing them. The orientation of the grid is determined by certain references in clues to parts of words 'dropping' or read clockwise; the final two squares of the spiral contain VC (unclued), completing CARACOL, CHALAZA, COCHLEA and VIBRIO read towards the corners of the spiral."
3903	11/11/2006	Do as the Lady Says	Franc	143	2	"Top row (unclued) is 'OUT DAMNED SPOT'; 18 lights lose jumbles of SPOT on entry, while remaining clues must have definitions of SPOT removed."
3904	18/11/2006	Approximates	Adam	144	4	"Equal numbers of answers are too short, too long or the right length for their entries; those which are too short have all letters different, and are entered as anagrams with some letters repeated, while those which are too long have duplications of letters removed on entry. In some cases subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling PROCRUSTES."
3905	25/11/2006	"Solve Two, Get One Free"	Googly	67	1	"Numerical puzzle; there are three grids, with the first two clued normally. Taking pairs of digits, reducing modulo 26 and converting to letters the completed grids spell AN ARITHMETIC SERIES and ALL PRIME; these describe six of the lights in the third grid, the other lights all being squares."
3906	02/12/2006	Another Chance to See...	Duck	169	4	"There are three types of clues: the first are normal with misprinted lights; the second include superfluous words, whose initial and final letters give the second of two misprints occurring in the lights; the third have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling WYNNE'S CROSSWORD, the grid of which is to be highlighted."
3907	09/12/2006	The Consequence of Being Mortal	Phi	169	2	"Thematic lights are types of HANGOVER, clued without definition: BROKEN COMPASS, SEWING MACHINE, COMET, ATOMIC, CEMENT MIXER, GREMLIN BOOGIE - listed by WODEHOUSE in 'The MATING SEASON' (spelled out by superfluous letters included in subsidiary indications in clues to remaining down lights). The first letter of each remaining across light 'hangs over' from the end of its predecessor."
3908	16/12/2006	A Stage in William's Life	Mango	143	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous letter, spelling FIRST AND LAST LETTERS OF MODIFIED CLUES, leading to 'PRAY YOU MASTER LIEUTENANT SEE ME SAFE UP; AND MY COMING DOWN LET ME SHIFT FOR MYSELF', last words of SIR THOMAS MORE spoken to THE LIEUTENANT (clued without definition in top and bottom rows). Down lights meeting the latter are entered upwards, while those meeting the former have their letters shifted forward a constant amount, e.g. PRIMERO with each letter shifted by 3 becomes SULPHUR. Missing word 'I' from quotation is to be entered in central isolated square; central row then contains UTOPIA I COINED, to be highlighted."
3909	23/12/2006	Allusions	MynoT	169	2	"Twelve clues have subsidiary indications leading to LEAPING, DANCING, PIPING, DRUMMING, MILKING, SWIMMING, LAYING, GOLD, CALLING, FRENCH, TURTLE, PEAR TREE (reading down before across); the corresponding lights contain LORD, LADY, PIPER, DRUMMER, MAID, SWAN, GOOSE, RING, BIRD, HEN, DOVE, PARTRIDGE, to be highlighted (in three cases running into the light below or to the right, whose clue is then simply a one-word definition)."
3910	30/12/2006	Extra Special Fare	The Tall'n	169	2	"Each row and column is to be treated as cyclic, and contains two lights (or in the case of the central column, three). Clues are double (or triple) and the second light in each row and column is entered jumbled. Items appearing in a 'Bill of Fare' are clued without definition. The six unchecked letters may be arranged to spell SU DOKU; the central  9 x 9  square forms a su doku grid with central row ROAST DUCK, and is to be indicated by drawing the eight horizontal and vertical lines dividing it into  3 x 3  blocks."
3911	06/01/2007	Direct Action	Hubris	144	2	"Each clue contains a superfluous word, whose first and then fourth letters spell GRID ENTRIES MUST CONFORM LITERALLY TO THEIR DIRECTIONS, I.E., NORTH TO SOUTH OR WEST TO EAST OR VICE VERSA. Thus the across answer WREN might be entered as EREN (west to east) or NWRW (east to west); similarly the down answer SNAP might be entered as SSAP (north to south) or PANN (south to north)."
3912	13/01/2007	Writer	Ark	144	2	"Final letter of each answer is E, to be removed on entry. Clues whose final letter is E are MP, spelling 'DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE'; each of the remaining clues contains a single word ending in E, whose initial letters spell BLACK OUT WRITER'S FULL NAME. The writer concerned is ISABEL ALLENDE, appearing in the centre of the grid in the shape of a letter E."
3913	20/01/2007	Solutions to be Clued	Waterloo	169	1	"Eight clues are single words, with the corresponding lights being clues, e.g. 'Rams' gives SHEEP UP IN ARMS, 'Preserve' gives KEEP PENNY ICE."
3914	27/01/2007	Zones	Ten-Four	225	2	"The grid is divided into three zones, indicated by shading: the first consists of the first three rows and columns; the second is an inverted L-shape formed from the remainder of the next five rows and columns; the third is the bottom left  7 x 7  square. The letters J and Q do not appear in clue answers; the remaining 24 letters are paired, and then the pairs themselves are paired, as AB, CD; EF, HG; IK, LM; ON, RP; TS, UV; WX, YZ. Lights beginning in the first zone are entered normally; those beginning in the second are entered with the first letter of each pair replacing the second; those beginning in the third are entered with the vowel (or Y) of each pair of pairs replacing the other three letters."
3915	03/02/2007	Twinset	Xanthippe	169	2	"Eleven lights contain double letters; ten of their clues have been misplaced. The perimeter contains nine lights, clued by single-word definitions, given in alphabetical order. Each of the 26 letters occurs doubled exactly once in the grid, in some cases straddling two perimeter lights; these doubled letters are to be highlighted."
3916	10/02/2007	Hunt	Samuel	144	2	"Nine clues contain superfluous groups of letters, which may be rearranged to form MENSA, PERSEUS, URSA MINOR, HYDRA, NORMA, ARIES, CETUS, PICTOR, GRUS. Remaining clues have misprints in both definition and subsidiary indication; in each case one of the correct letters is the other misprint, and these spell REFRACTOR, REFLECTOR, THE HUBBLE. Replacing TELESCOPE in the centre of the main diagonal by each of these in turn reveals successively along diagonals LITTLE GREEN MEN, to be written beneath the grid; the acronym SETI is to highlighted in green."
3917	17/02/2007	PS	Homer	169	2	"Fifteen clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN, whose poem 'Night Mail' provides the theme: 'This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.' Six lights are clued without definition: CHEQUE; ALOPST ('postal' in alphabetical order); HTICEHR, HOPOTRE (jumbles of 'the rich' and 'the poor'); and THEMARY above SHOPANN in the bottom left corner. Main diagonals contain NIGHT MAIL crossing BORDER, to be highlighted."
3918	24/02/2007	Factory	Viking	64	4	"Numerical puzzle, with lights clued by the numbers of their divisors (a tribute to Rhombus, born 1907)."
3919	03/03/2007	The Crooked Man	Jago	144	2	"Certain squares are to contain chemical symbols, read in full in across lights but with only the capital letter read in down lights; some ambiguities are avoided by the requirement that no TRANSURANIAN elements are involved. Unclued lights are ELEMENTARY, HOLMES, WATSON and CONAN DOYLE."
3920	10/03/2007	Travelling Light	Ploy	144	2	"Top row of grid (unclued) has no vertical lines dividing it into squares; initially it contains THIS TRAIN STO..., to be completed by superfluous words or corrections to misprints in clues, spelling ...PS AT STEVENAGE, PETERBOROUGH, DONCASTER, YORK, DARLINGTON, NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH. Puzzle marks Listener Setters' Dinner in York, to which the setter must travel from London; when the message has scrolled through to R YORK DARLING (changing intersecting down lights to other words), the journey from near centre of bottom row, heading mostly N and sometimes NW, spells I HAVE TO GET TO and ends in YORK (these last to be highlighted)."
3921	17/03/2007	Mistaken Identity	Duck	144	2	"Across clues are LL, spelling PROVINCES OF IRELAND; five unclued down lights CENSURER, GENTLE, LUST, ROMANIST, HUNT form an anagram of CONNAUGHT, LEINSTER, MUNSTER, ULSTER."
3922	24/03/2007	An Amusing State?	Dimitry	282	1	"Clues are given in usual order, separated into across and down; grid is blank, with bars to be added and unused squares to be blacked in. Resulting completed grid has ten protruding squares around the edge, spelling SHARAWAGGI (to be highlighted), meaning 'the use of irregularity, discordance or incongruity for deliberative, artful, contrastive effect'; title refers to alternative reading A WAGGISH AR, obtained by starting elsewhere."
3923	31/03/2007	Family Planning	Brimstone	182	2	"10 clues each define a 7-letter and two 3-letter words, with the former an anagram of the latter two together with an extra letter; the 3-letter lights are to be entered in locations to be discovered, while the extra letters may be arranged to spell THE BORGIAS. Subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve superfluous letters, two for across clues and one for down; taking one of each pair across gives 'THE THIRD MAN' - ORSON WELLES, while the others followed by those from down clues spell IN GRID CHANGE OUTPUT FROM ITALY TO THAT FROM SWITZERLAND; the completely checked light RENAISSANCE is to be replaced by CUCKOO CLOCK, forming new words."
3924	07/04/2007	On Air	Charybdis	169	1	"Theme is Browning's poem 'THAT'S THE WISE THRUSH; HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER, LEST YOU SHOULD THINK HE NEVER COULD RECAPTURE THE FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE!': one row and one column (largely unclued, and with isolated squares) each contain WE STIR THE HUSH (anagram of 'THE WISE THRUSH'); 23 clashes together with one other letter spell either 'HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER' or 'FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE', with the former to be entered as it correctly completes the unclued lights BLACKBIRD and DOVE; a curve is to be drawn in the grid through the letters of PURE ART (i.e., 'CARELESS RAPTURE') in the form of an arc of a circle, with the enclosed letters being SUN RISES."
3925	14/04/2007	The Reform Club	Auctor	167	2	"Four border lights have 'ALL for ONE and ONE for ALL' (LOSE ALL'S SEAT, LYDIAN STALL; HONEUCINATE, CRYSTONEISED). Sixteen lights lose a letter on entry; these reappear as extra letters in other lights, forming ATHOS, PORTHOS, ARAMIS meeting in the common last letter."
3926	21/04/2007	Mutatis Mutandis	Nibor	169	2	"Each answer must lose one letter, gain another and be rearranged to form the light, another word; the clue contains a superfluous definition of the light. The letters removed and those inserted form two sequences of words, defined in the preamble. The central column (unclued) is INVARIABILITY."
3927	28/04/2007	Five-star Actioner	Gos	144	4	"Eleven clashes in the grid must be resolved to reveal 'GONE WITH THE WIND', to be highlighted; GABLE and LEIGH are unclued, and second symbols (including one apostrophe) in clues form 'AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I'LL NEVER BE HUNGRY AGAIN'. Title of puzzle contains TARA."
3928	05/05/2007	"A Paradox, a Paradox"	Sabre	140	2	"There are two grids; in the first some lights are entered jumbled, while in the second some are misprinted. The proportion of across answers entered normally is less in the first than in the second; the same is true of down lights; however, the proportion of all answers entered normally is greater in the first than in the second. Three unclued 6-letter lights (ZAMBUK, SLIGHT, PONDER) are to be regarded is giving the faces of three dice, with letters replaced by numerical equivalents; on average the first die beats the second, the second beats the third and the third beats the first. RUSSELL and EPIMENIDES are unclued."
3929	12/05/2007	Venery	Psyche	144	2	"Lights are clued in alphabetical order; each clue involves an extra letter, either appearing in it or produced by the subsidiary indication, spelling 'MAN IS THE [HUNTER]; WOMAN IS HIS [GAME]: THE SLEEK AND SHINING [CREATURES] OF [THE CHASE]', where the words in parentheses are four lights clued without definition."
3930	19/05/2007	Double Entry	Adam	144	2	"Keyword is NODDY, which has two main entries in Chambers: the first has six definitions, represented by the symmetrically placed lights CARD GAME, FILM CLIP, OCEANIC BIRD, REAR DOOR CAB, KNAVE, COKES (to be highlighted); the second is an 'inverted pendulum', to be represented by writing PENDULUM upside-down beneath the grid, the final inverted M (looking like W) already having been provided."
3931	26/05/2007	Certificate 18	Ruslan	38	2	"Numerical puzzle, with the eighteen lights the 3-digit numbers in base 3; letters in clues represent the numbers from 2 to 19. In one clue the letters have been replaced by  x  and  y;  the correct letters, together with those representing two of the lights, are to be entered in a separate grid, forming 'amen'."
3932	02/06/2007	Initials	Mango	143	2	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of answers; taken in normal order, their initials spell YSOBEL, TROYTE, NIMROD, DORABELLA - EDWARD ELGAR (titles of movements and composer of the Enigma Variations). In the grid, ten jumbles of ENIGMA, overlapping at ends, are to be highlighted to form the composer's initials EE."
3933	09/06/2007	Lay __ Out	Zero	169	2	"In each thematic clue, one or two letters in the answer are ignored in the subsidiary indication and replaced by small dots on entry; in clue order these spell '[ITALY] IS A GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION'. In seven other squares contributions from across and down lights form MILAN, TURIN, VENICE, GENOA, FLORENCE, ROME and NAPLES, appropriately located; these are to be replaced by large dots. A continuous loop of straight lines joining dots (including those representing VENICE, GENOA and NAPLES) must be drawn to create an approximate outline of Italy."
3934	16/06/2007	Surprise	Alberich	144	4	"Across answers are entered jumbled; their clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters spell A TURN-UP FOR THE BOOKS. Each down answer contains an abbreviation of a book of the Bible, to be entered in reverse."
3935	23/06/2007	Two Down [SC?NE ? FAIRE]	Wasp	165	2	"Six clues contain letter mixtures involving superfluous letters, which may be arranged to spell CLUEDO; definitions in these clues lead to the titles of the characters MRS. PEACOCK, PROFESSOR PLUM, COLONEL MUSTARD, MISS SCARLETT, REVEREND GREEN and MRS. WHITE, while the lights, to be entered in appropriate colours, are their surnames, given by the letter mixtures. The central light, giving the murderer, is thus entered in white; these apparently empty squares are to be filled with the surname of the murder victim DR. BLACK (in black), and the name of the murderer together with the location and means (BALLROOM and LEAD PIPE, found as symmetrically-placed lights) are to be written beneath the grid."
3936	30/06/2007	Convert	Mr Lemon	143	2	"Nine clues are MP, with incorrect letters spelling GRINGOTTS; in remaining clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling DIAGON ALLEY - PHILOSOPHER'S - H. POTTER. This reference shows that one GALLEON (1 Ac) is worth 17 SICKLEs (17 Ac), each of which is worth 29 KNUTs (29 Dn), giving an overall conversion factor of 493: CDXCIII (in the centre) and SICKLE are to be highlighted in the completed grid."
3937	07/07/2007	Men in Her Life	Raich	196	2	"Clues either are LL or contain superfluous words, spelling BRAY, LEWES, CROSS - PEN NAME FOR REAL NAME; TITLES OF TWO BOOKS. The first three were significant in the life of MARIAN EVANS, to be replaced in the grid by GEORGE ELIOT, creating ADAM BEDE; these two and SILAS MARNER are to be highlighted."
3938	14/07/2007	Babel	Noggs	144	2	"Clues are of three types, with numbers of each being equal: normal, definition plus origin and subsidiary indication plus origin. Here 'origin' denotes a language listed in the etymology of the light in Chambers, and is indicated in clues in various cryptic ways; the 28 origins used are all distinct."
3939	21/07/2007	Novel Connections	Buff	169	2	"Subsidiary indications in most clues involve extra letters, spelling LONDINIUM; LINDUM; AQUAE SULIS; VIROCONIUM. These places are correctly located in the grid by squares containing their initial letters; joining them are WATLING (ST.), ERMINE (ST.) and FOSSE WAY, to be highlighted (two other lights contain ST, ignored in the subsidiary indication)."
3940	28/07/2007	Curry	Kea	144	2	"In most clues one word in the definition must have a letter removed and the others rearranged before solving; removed letters spell KING JAMES: PROVERBS THIRTY-ONE TEN, which reads 'Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies'. Remaining lights are entered jumbled. The feet of six adjacent columns contain SPINEL, BLOOD, LIPS, BALAS, AGATE, PORT, all RUBIES and to be entered in red; the first letters of these columns spell DEARTH, to be replaced by ARETHA, causing all jumbles to become words."
3941	04/08/2007	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Aldebaran	164	1R	"Each clue must have one of O, A, B or AB removed before solving, each blood group occurring in approximately the proportion found in the UK population. FEE FI FO FUM is unclued; eight lights are anagrams of bones, to be highlighted to form the outline of a loaf of bread (reflecting 'I'LL GRIND HIS BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD')."
3942	11/08/2007	Advice	MynoT	144	4	"Clues are presented in alphabetical order of lights, whose locations must be determined. The grid comprises four identical quarters; when these are correctly arranged, 'GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, JUVENES DUM SUMUS' (to be highlighted) may be read in four of the rows."
3943	18/08/2007	Roadies	Bandmaster	156	1	"In each row apart from the top, middle and bottom, one clash must be resolved by entering the letter from the down light, to allow FRIAR, MERCHANT, MILLER, SHIPMAN, MONK, PARSON, HOST, SUMMONER, SQUIRE, REEVE to appear; misprinting an unchecked letter in the middle row makes it contain PILGRIMAGERS. Clues to lights not involved in clashes contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'LIKE PILGRIMS TO TH' APPOINTED PLACE WE TEND'. Top and bottom rows contain SOUTHWARK and CANTERBURY; in these the W and T must be highlighted as forming the beginning and ending of WATLING STREET, with the other letters provided by the new letters in the intervening rows in order."
3944	25/08/2007	Dedication	Oyler	90	2	"Numerical puzzle; taking pairs of digits, reducing modulo 26 and converting to letters the completed grid spells 'READ EULER, READ EULER, HE IS THE MASTER OF US ALL - LAPLACE', of which the first two words and the author must be written beneath the grid."
3945	01/09/2007	Workplace	Mr E	144	2	"Half the lights lose a letter on entry, spelling THERBLIG AND EREWHON; remaining lights are to be entered likewise reversed except for one adjacent pair of letters."
3946	08/09/2007	Growing Pains	Dipper	144	2	"In 22 clues the subsidiary indication refers to another light; the remainder have superfluous words or phrases. 12 of these define vegetables; the initial letters of the remaining 12 spell UNDER THE SHED, leading to ALLIUM PORRUM underneath LEAN-TO in the grid, to be highlighted."
3947	15/09/2007	King	Rebel	144	4	"In this puzzle north is at the top of the grid, which is intended to represent the Kafka novel 'The Castle'. Clues are in three groups, 'Ground East', 'Ground South' and 'Central Region'; those in the last of these are preceded by the 'level' (G, 1, 2, 3 or 4) and direction (including Up and Down), and lights are entered to build up a three-dimensional representation of a castle. Ground clues other than those in the first group have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling AUTHOR AND TWO OTHER OF HIS NOVELS; clues at levels above Ground contain superfluous letters, spelling ENTER THE TOPMOST LETTERS. Doing so in the central region produces FRANZ KAFKA, to be highlighted along with 'AMERICA' and 'THE TRIAL'."
3948	22/09/2007	Word for Word	Aragon	144	2	"Preamble reads 'Initial letters of superfluous words in twenty-one clues help give the first part of an instruction to solvers. This instruction is completed by three pairs of grid entries, so that the asterisked cells read correctly.' Initial letters mentioned spell TAKE PREAMBLE LITERALLY; doing so leads to SWITCH as the first part of the instruction. Pairs of lights to be switched are LATTICE / RECORDS, GRILLE / FOYERS, and NETWORK / PORTALS (i.e., GRID / ENTRIES); asterisked cells then contain CORRECTLY."
3949	29/09/2007	Greetings	Bufo	100	4	"Several checked squares need to contain three letters, not necessarily in the same order in crossing lights. Seven definitions contain three consecutive extra letters; these groups may be arranged to spell FIRST OF THE ACROSS THREE, which indicates which letter to enter in each 'triple' square; top and bottom row then contain BEST WISHES FROM MR. TOAD."
3950	06/10/2007	"Wot, No Lines?"	Charybdis	169	1	"Grid represents a section of wall, with single and double cells alternating in each row as in a brick pattern; across lights are entered normally, while those down move successively from one brick to another either totally or partially below it. Clues are given in order of light length; subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT FIFTEEN DOWN AND SIX LETTERS ON A MAJOR DIAGONAL. Unclued lights are WRITING ON THE WALL, KILROY WAS HERE, CHAD, GRAFFITI, 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN' and ANAGRAMS; the last of these is 15 Down, and is completed by LURE OK at the bottom of the NE-SW diagonal."
3951	13/10/2007	Trades	Arachne	144	2	"In half the clues, one word (occasionally a consecutive pair of words) must be replaced by an anagram before solving; in the remainder, one of the letters L, S, Y must be replaced by one of the others. Five across lights lose an L on entry, while five down lights are entered reversed, in all cases forming new words; first and last across lights are BULLS and BEARS (unclued)."
3952	20/10/2007	Abundance	Seth Mould	221	1	"Outer rows and columns represent bridge hands, with cards represented by A, K, Q, J, T, N, E, S, S, F, F, T, T and listed in usual suit order with bars separating suits. In ten inner columns one light is entered with two letters omitted: in each case one appears in the unchecked square at the top or bottom of the column, while the others spell YARBOROUGH (defined in Chambers as 'a hand containing no card above a nine'), of which the bottom row FTT|FTT|FTT|FFTT is an extreme example. Remaining clues contain superfluous letters, spelling the encoded form of HIGHLIGHT LONGEST WORD IN EAST'S HAND where each 'card' letter stands for the letters in the alphabet between itself and the next one. First column contains KQJ|KQJ|KQJ|KQJT, an extreme example of 'a hand containing no card above a king'); last column, ignoring bars, contains words, the longest of which is FATNESS."
3953	27/10/2007	Resolution	Alligator	143	2	"Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ERASE ALL LETTERS FROM THE GRID. Lights UTOPIA, EREWHON and NEWS FROM NOWHERE are clued without definition; unclued lights are ALFRED JARRY, inventor of PATAPHYSICS ('the science of imaginary solutions'), to be found in the grid and written below it after erasure."
3954	03/11/2007	Multi-part Puzzle	Poat	170	1	"Grid is circular, with radial lights occurring in eight groups of five. Within each group five clue types are used: subsidiary indications involve an extra letter S; DLM with letter mixture involving an extra letter A; definitions have a misprint T; clues have superfluous words, synonyms of BAR; and definitions have an extra letter B. Perimeter contains SOPRANO, ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE, BASS - THOMAS TALLIS; third ring from the outside contains jumbles of ADELINA PATTI, FERRIER, CARUSO, TERFEL, CHALIAPIN, clued without definition; innermost ring contains a jumble of 'SPEM IN AL(I)UM', with the second letter I to be entered in the middle of the grid."
3955	10/11/2007	Band on the Run	Tea Leaves	144	1	"Grid has no bars, but starting squares of lights are given; many lights, especially those down, are jumbled. Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell DRAW LINES TO CREATE TWENTY-ONE FILM TITLES; ENTER FOUR-WORD TITLE FOR 'KEITH' AT MM and final letters TWENTY STARTING WD, LS, TIH, AC, GWTW, C, GW, S, HN, DS, RM, BAC, FF, COAHTR, BN, TKAI, DS, ANOES, GC, TFC. The completed grid is thus to be divided into regions containing cryptic versions of film titles with the given initial letters, e.g. SEWN for 'BREAKING NEWS', MARAN for 'RAIN MAN'; the remaining film, represented by KEITH, is 'SOME LIKE IT HOT', to be written beneath the grid in a box containing MM."
3956	17/11/2007	A & D	The Tall'n	169	2	"Clues are headed 'A' and 'D'. The former have lights across: ten of these are unnumbered, with answers RUBY, IRON, PAPER, LINEN, WOOL, LACE, LEATHER, CHINA, GOLD, STEEL, and the corresponding numbers of wedding anniversaries are to be inserted in the grid; ten others are related to DIAMOND. The latter are paired, and the lights are to entered in diamonds which overlap in one or two letters. QUEEN'S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY and SIXTIETH are to be highlighted in diamond form in the grid."
3957	24/11/2007	Eleven Across	Elap	81	2	"Numerical puzzle; clues give the values obtained by adding or subtracting various lights (or multiples or products thereof). Central lights across and down are unclued. Taking the values given in the clues and interpreting 1 to 26 as A to Z appropriately gives DISREGARDING BARS, THIS GRID REPRESENTS A CROSSWORD IN WHICH A IS ONE, B TWO ETC. - each row and column may in this way be interpreted as a single word, allowing the unclued lights to be entered. Finally the sum of all lights is 192113, to be interpreted as SUM, which is to be written beneath the grid."
3958	01/12/2007	Describer	Henry	144	2	"Theme is EDWARD UPWARD: five down answers are entered with ED, TED, NED, EDDY or TEDDY reversed; four answers are entered with TRIP, RAKE, EYRE or RIDE moved to the edge of the grid, to reflect the title 'JOURNEY TO THE BORDER'; most other clues are MP, spelling contemporaries AUDEN, ISHERWOORD, SPENDER (and one of these lights is DAY LEWIS); other clues have numbers summing to 104 (reflecting his birth in 1903); finally his name (to be highlighted) appears in alternate squares up the central two columns of the grid, reflecting the title 'THE SPIRAL ASCENT'."
3959	08/12/2007	"Inflation, or Now We Are Twelve"	Waterloo	182	1	"All numerical values in clue answers are doubled on entry, e.g. RANINE becomes RAEIGHTEEN."
3960	15/12/2007	Misprinted Choice	Schadenfreude	196	2	"Twenty-one clues are MP, spelling 'THE LADY'S NOT FOR (B/T)URNING' (the definition in the fifteenth could be either banker or tanker). Main diagonal in grid contains clashes; one set of choices spells MAGGIE THATCHER and the other CHRISTOPHER FRY (born 18/12/1907); the latter is indicated by the other diagonal, which contains BIRTH CENTENARY."
3961	22/12/2007	Invitation	Duck	144	2	"One square in each column contains a clash, with the across and down letters differing by one or two places in the alphabet. In each of seven rows the subsidiary indication in one across clue involves an extra letter, thus labelling the rows concerned with the natural pitches of an octave reading down from C. Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ONE LETTER GAP IS CROTCHET - DRAW STEMMED NOTES; clashes are therefore to be filled with either crotchets or minims, and then the grid represents the opening twelve notes of 'O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL, JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT', to be entered underneath the grid."
3962	29/12/2007	Disappearance	Phi	144	1	"Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row; clues are for the most part double. Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters in order spell HUIA TODAY (left half) and GONE TOMORROW (right half); the unclued lights TODAY and TOMORROW in the left and right halves determine which side of the grid represents which, and thus the HUIA appearing diagonally in the left half is to be highlighted while that in the right half is to be erased. Other unclued lights are KAKAPO and KOKAKO."
3963	05/01/2008	A New Year Message	Ten-Four	144	4	"Subsidiary indications in some clues involve extra letters, spelling ONE DOWN (across), FIFTY-ONE TO GO (down); remaining across lights lose LI on entry, while in those down each I is moved down one square."
3964	12/01/2008	Class	Gioconda	144	2	"Clues are divided into seven sets of six; in each set, the last letter of one answer is transferred to the end of another, the central letter of a third is transferred to the middle of a fourth, a fifth is entered jumbled and the sixth has an MP clue, the correct letters forming an arrangement of CANDICE."
3965	19/01/2008	Solitaire	Xanthippe	82	2	"There are two grids; squares in each contain either one or two letters. The second is a solitaire grid (with the central square isolated); certain squares in the first are numbered from 1 to 27. When both have been completed, the pegs in the second are to be removed in the order specified by the numbered squares in the first, with the final four jumps to be determined; these last four pegs followed by the one finishing in the centre spell DIAMOND, to be written in a box between the two grids."
3966	26/01/2008	Mercury's Whereabouts	Dysart	169	1	"Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY', first line of 'THE GO-BETWEEN'. Down clues are presented out of order, and each contains a superfluous word, either GO or a synonym thereof, to be inserted in one of the answers; the order of the clues is determined by that of these insertions. In the middle of the grid, LEO appears between MARIAN and TED, with all three to be highlighted."
3967	02/02/2008	Lots to Find	Franc	144	2	"One third of the clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'BOOK OF ST. ALBANS', which lists many nouns of assembly; in another third, one word is to be replaced by another, while in the remaining third the answer is to be replaced by another word on entry, the two words in all cases being the name of a creature and its noun of assembly (in either order)."
3968	09/02/2008	Babes	Aedites	156	12R	"Grid is circular, with radial clues presented in groups of three; within each group clues are in any order, and lights, all five-letter, are entered inwards, outwards and jumbled. Outer ring contains 'ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE, SUGAR IS SWEET AND SO ARE YOU'; third ring contains 'WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?'; inner ring contains LEA, SAL, RAE, DEE."
3969	16/02/2008	Carte Blanche	Homer	137	2	"Grid is empty; clues across and down are given in alphabetical order of their answers. Two of these, WINZE and WEARY, do not fit in the grid, but define the 'true title' CURSE OF SCOTLAND, to be written in the box provided. The squares containing the nine letters D in the grid are to be coloured red to form diamonds, creating the playing card NINE OF DIAMONDS."
3970	23/02/2008	Beating the Bookies	Ruslan	49	1	"Numerical puzzle; 12 horses run in a race and their odds must be determined. Clues are bets of different types and amounts, with the lights the amounts paid out if successful. A 50p each way bet on all 12 horses yields a minimal profit (1p after rounding up), and the first three in order are to be written beneath the grid, their initials spelling FIX."
3971	01/03/2008	Franglais	Nutmeg	144	2	"Half the lights are words in both English and French (sometimes with the same meaning); definitions in their clues refer to the French meaning, while superfluous words in the remaining clues define the English meanings."
3972	08/03/2008	Unusual	Mr Lemon	144	4	"Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters, spelling A EUROPEAN BIRD GUIDE. Each light clashes with an intersecting one; in each case the letter from the down light is to be entered, spelling REDFLANKED BLUETAIL; letters omitted, in order of the crossing down lights, spell THRUSH, ROBIN, SPARROW."
3973	15/03/2008	Collusion	The Magpie	143	2	"Twenty-seven clues contain superfluous words, some of which involve adjustments in punctuation and spacing, with nine each being 5-letter, 6-letter and 7-letter. Each such set of words may be used as definitions for the nine unclued down lights; this enables the unclued central row (whose 4th and 8th letters are unchecked) to be completed as CLEVER CLOGS, SMARTY PANTS or BRIGHT SPARK, describing the three solvers working together to solve the puzzle. Remaining clues are MP; adding together COLLUSION, the three possible sequences of checked letters for the central row and the corrected misprints enables the central row finally to be completed as BRAINS TRUST."
3974	22/03/2008	Lots	Viking	144	4	"Each across light has a letter T misplaced; NE-SW diagonal contains MARCEL PROUST, suggesting his 'In Search of Lost Time'."
3975	29/03/2008	The Cause of Much Pain	Samuel	169	2	"In 22 cases a letter from one clue has moved into the clue immediately above; these spell 'WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN'. In the completed grid the down lights ROCKET, BALLOON, LIANA, LIFT and COPILOT must all be moved to the feet of their respective columns, with the letters displaced filling the gaps left; similarly APPLE falls but lands on N (the head of Newton); the principle of GRAVITATION must then be highlighted."
3976	05/04/2008	Hard Rectangle	Harpy	180	1	"In each clue, one word in the definition must have a letter removed and an anagram formed of the remainder. Letters removed spell POET CAN BE SEEN IN GRID - SHADE CELLS CONTAINING LETTERS NOT IN TITLE; doing the latter reveals a map of Venice, identified by THE GRAND CANAL snaking through it. Bottom row contains SHELLEY; his lines 'Underneath DAY'S AZURE EYES, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies' lead to the words to be entered above the grid."
3977	12/04/2008	City Tour	Mango	156	2	"Rows and columns are labelled A-N (omitting I) and O-Z. In each of 32 clues, occurring in 8 groups of 4, one word must be moved to the right; the initial letters of the words moved form 8 pairs of co-ordinate pairs. Three rows of the completed grid contain LA TOUR D'HANOI, arranged with each word above the next to form a miniature Tower of Hanoi; these are to be moved from one 'peg' to another in a sequence of seven moves, according to the rules of the game, with the starting and finishing positions of each move given by the first seven pairs of co-ordinate pairs, and all lights in the final grid being words. The final pair of co-ordinate pairs gives the first and last letters of E. LUCAS, the game's inventor, to be found in the unused squares of the intermediate peg."
3978	19/04/2008	Symbolism	Wasp	144	2	"Subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling ONE LETTER RELOCATED, describing method of entry of most across answers; remaining across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SEBLANCE, of which the missing M is to be found in the grid by shading unclued down lights MONSIEUR and THOUSAND together with MAIDEN entered along two diagonals."
3979	26/04/2008	Huge Ruin (Remote)	Gos	144	1	"Clues are given in alphabetical order of lights; the first 13 across are MP, spelling EDGAR ALLAN POE in normal order. Top and bottom row contain HOUSE OF USHER and TOMB OF LIGEIA, both unclued; the former must fall and the latter rise so as to exchange positions, leaving crossing down lights still words. Title suggests '(THE) MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE'."
3980	03/05/2008	Closed Doors	The Tall'n	169	2	"Across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'WE HAVE SHUFFLED OFF THIS MORTAL ...'. When clashes in 15 squares are resolved, a COIL contains THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, CORIOLANUS, HAMLET, TITUS ANDRONICUS, all having been performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre before its closure for refurbishment at the end of March 2007, by the RSC (appearing in isolated squares in the centre of the main diagonal); CORIOLANUS is to be highlighted as the last to be performed before the closure."
3981	10/05/2008	Lip Service	Sabre	144	2	"Five unclued lights HSHS, HLESELAT, HLGUEIN, HIGDAT and HIMTR are the encoded forms, using a substitution cipher, of PAPA, POTATOES, POULTRY, PRUNES and PRISM; main diagonal contains ORSSOTNGMMRS, whose encoded form is LITTLE DORRIT (the source of the relevant quotation)."
3982	17/05/2008	Politics	Fresco	144	2	"Eight lights form four pairs ANIMAL CRACKERS, DUCK SOUP, HORSE FEATHERS, and MONKEY BUSINESS; in each pair the first is unclued. In most clues the subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling 'JE SUIS MARXISTE - TENDANCE GROUCHO'; the SW-NE diagonal contains MARX BROTHERS, to be highlighted."
3983	24/05/2008	Reappearance	Poat	144	2	"In seven clues the subsidiary indication refers to another answer; the initial letters of these answers may be arranged to form W.B. YEATS, author of 'The SECOND COMING' (first and last lights across, unclued). One line from this work is 'THINGS FALL APART; THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD'; accordingly, all other across answers are entered with the first half where indicated and the second half in the symmetrically opposite location, while all down answers lose their central letter on entry. The author CHINUA ACHEBE, whose best-known work is 'THINGS FALL APART', must be highlighted in the completed grid along a symmetrical path in which consecutive squares are adjacent either diagonally or horizontally."
3984	31/05/2008	Odd One Out	Oyler	75	2	"Numerical puzzle; there are three  5 x 5  grids, each having ten bars, six unchecked squares and seven lights in each direction, labelled A to G across and a to g down. However, while the first two grids are given normally the third is to be constructed, using the fact that no bar occurs in the same location in two grids. Clues labelled with the same letter are given in random order, and solvers must decide which relates to which grid."
3985	07/06/2008	Yes	Lato	169	2	"Lights clued without definition are DEPRESSING PLACE IN SOMERSET, leading to DOWNING STREET. Eleven clues contain superfluous words, defining words or phrases containing first or last names of postwar Prime Ministers, with the other words forming unclued lights: Clement (Attlee) INES; ROBERT Winston (Churchill), (Harold) Macmillan NURSES, SMART Alec (Douglas-Home), (Harold) Wilson PICKETT, (Edward) Heath HENS, Jim (Callaghan) CRACK, Maggie (Thatcher) MAY, (John) Major MITCHELL, (Tony) Blair WITCH, (Gordon) Brown BETTY. The word PROJECT is missing from the penultimate of these, and is associated with (Anthony) Eden, so must be written beneath the grid."	
3986	14/06/2008	Terminal Suspension	Schadenfreude	156	1	"In each column one answer has a letter moved to the top row, spelling WEEPING BIRCH; the last six across answers are entered with misprints, the correct letters spelling MUSMON; remaining clues contain superfluous letters, spelling BODY AND TAIL IN EACH COLUMN, detailing what must be highlighted. Bottom row of grid contains LITTLE BO-PEEP (unclued); twelve sheep, one in each column, appear immediately above her but with their tails (final letters) in the second row, as though hung from the tree above them."	
3987	21/06/2008	Fizz Buzz	BeRo	144	1	"The initial square of each light is given, but not its initial direction; at each letter whose numerical equivalent is a multiple of either 5 or 7 (i.e., E, G, J, N, O, T, U or Y) it must turn at right angles, as it must on meeting the edge of the grid. The unchecked letters, to be highlighted, spell CHAMPERS DRAIN, suggesting a forfeit in the game (or what successful solvers might do)."	
3988	28/06/2008	Travel Agents	Hedge-sparrow	169	2	"For each across answer, the first part is entered in the position indicated and the second elsewhere; all lights are words, and a definition of the light at the position of the second part appears as a superfluous word or phrase in the clue. Subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling SHORT CUTS FOR SPACE-TIME TRAVEL; the centre of the main diagonal contains WORMHOLES, to be highlighted."	
3989	05/07/2008	Key: Cutting	Lavatch	156	2	"Some across clues are LL, spelling 'THE RAPE OF THE ...'; down clues are double, separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters may be arranged to form COMBINATION. Both may be followed by LOCK; the grid is to be treated as a combination lock, with columns rotated so as to replace one row containing 'TRIVIAL THINGS' with ALEXANDER POPE. If correct choices are made in three columns, another row contains GEM-BELINDA-INI (to be written beneath the original grid), reflecting the final line of the poem 'And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name'."	
3990	12/07/2008	I Know My Place	Syd Lexis	144	2	"Centres of the two main diagonals, including four isolated squares, contain YY U R YY U B I C U R YY 4 ME (i.e., 'too wise you are, too wise you be; I see you are too wise for me'); these letters are ignored in subsidiary indications."	
3991	19/07/2008	Flower Arranging	Dipper	144	2	"Down lights are entered jumbled; across answers each lose the name of a flower on entry, with the subsidiary indication leading to the light."	
3992	26/07/2008	Tour de France	Pilcrow	121	2	All lights are cycled on entry; LA TOUR EIFFEL (in the shape of the Eiffel tower) is to be highlighted.	
3993	02/08/2008	Argentum	Radix	144	4	"Clues contain superfluous words; taking the first one or two letters of each spells IN FOUR PAIRS BOTH WORDS MUST BE PERMUTED SIMILARLY AND THEN ONE ENCODED. Four answers LONGHEAD, OVERSLIP, RIYADH, ULNARE are entered as anagrams HEADLONG, SLIPOVER, HYDRIA, NEURAL; accordingly the symmetrically positioned answers CONSIDER, WINSOMER, WHARFS, SPRENT must have been first rearranged as IDERCONS, OMERWINS, SAFWHR, RTSNEP and then Playfair-coded to give the original answers again. This allows the Playfair square to be determined; unclued words HINT, NEWS, TALK, SIGN (all definitions of WORD) must then be Playfair-coded."	Mince words
3994	09/08/2008	40 [Space Invaders]	Zero	117	2	Many squares contain two letters; highlighting these reveals a SPACE INVADER.	
3995	16/08/2008	Past Times	MynoT	182	2	"Grid is circular with irregular edge. Radial lights occur in twelve groups of three; in each group two are entered jumbled, while the third is entered inwards and unclued. Taken in clockwise order, the unclued lights are VENDEMIAIRE, BRUMAIRE, FRIMAIRE; NIVOSE, PLUVIOSE, VENTOSE; GERMINAL, FLOREAL, PRAIRIAL; MESSIDOR, THERMIDOR, FRUCTIDOR (each quadrant of the innermost ring contains more than one letter). Other rings contain lights clued in random order, together with the unclued lights LIBERTE, FRATERNITE, EGALITE."	
3996	23/08/2008	Half a Ton	Llig	169	2	Unclued perimeter contains ON WENLOCK EDGE; SERENADE TO MUSIC - RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (died 26 August 1958); some clues contain references to various of his pieces.	
3997	30/08/2008	Big Holes	Elap	100	4	"Numerical puzzle; the letters A-Z (omitting N) represent numbers between 10 and 9999, and clues are in terms of these. The smallest of these, in order, are represented by OTHER WAY UP; all numbers represented, and all lights, form words when read by turning a calculator display upside down, when the digits 0,1,3,4,5,7,8,9 become O,I,E,H,S,L,B,G respectively. The sum of the lights is 37819173, which thus becomes ELIGIBLE, to be written beneath the grid."	
3998	06/09/2008	Squaring the Circle	Centigram	144	4R	"Grid has no bars; lights are all six-letter, entered inward, outward or jumbled. Two 'circles' contain 'AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS, BLOW YOUR TRUMPETS' - JOHN DONNE; letters in the four corner squares are to be arranged to form LURS, to be written beneath the grid."	
3999	13/09/2008	Tobacco	Mr Lemon	144	2	"In most clues the subsidiary indication involves an extra letter, spelling TOBACCO IS SNOUT AND SN TIN; accordingly, each of the remaining answers loses an S and an N and gains a T somewhere to form another word, e.g. SAGINATE becomes AGITATE."	
4000	20/09/2008	Quadrivium	"Dimitry, Viking, Arcturus & Trev"	548	2	"Grid comprises four 13 x 13 M-shaped sections, attached base to side. Across clues in top half form 'Belligerent' (lights are entered by treating letters as bells and performing change-ringing; taking the letter in each clue immediately after the first occurrence of the initial letter of its light spells 'RING OUT THE THOUSAND YEARS OF WAR'; unclued lights are 8 battles with the initial letter M removed, also entered change-rung); those in bottom half form 'Masterworks' (MP clues spell 'METAMORPHOSEN' - RICHARD STRAUSS; the 8 remaining lack definitions and lead to names of musical works beginning with M, with the lights being encoded forms of the composers' surnames); down clues in left half form 'Submerse' (8 answers are to be regarded as giving instructions as to how to treat the letter M occurring therein, e.g. MINORSHIP becomes OMRSHIP); those in right half form 'Get Ready!' (subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling '..., SI NON, QUOCUMQUE MODO REM' ('..., if not, somehow, make money') - HORACE, EPISTLES; 8 answers are entered as anagrams to form coins)."	'Symphony of a Thousand' - G. Mahler
4001	27/09/2008	The French Can?	Alban	165	2	"All lights are Latin words given in Chambers (often in the etymology of an English word); in twelve cases the light is not to be found in an obvious location in the dictionary, and their clues contain superfluous letter mixtures of headwords under which they do appear. Unclued lights are QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM."
4002	04/10/2008	A Process of Induction	Emkay	169	2	"Lights meeting the perimeter once are jumbled on entry. Perimeter contains WOOD, THIERRY, PURCELL, FORD, THE EIGHTH, IRVING, HALL, MANCINI (clued without definition in random order), all examples of HENRY; unclued central light is JOSEPH HENRY, for whom the unit of inductance is named."
4003	11/10/2008	10 [Digonal]	8 [Pieman]	80	2	"Grid is a 10 x 8 rectangle; bars are to be added so as to divide the grid into two pieces of equal size and shape. Some squares contain numbers, with two each of 1, 2, ..., 18 occurring; some clues are MP, spelling NO REPEATED NUMBERS, a condition to be satisfied by each of the two pieces. If one piece is rotated through 180? and placed on top of the other, the squares where letters agree spell DIGONAL - PIEMAN, revealing the true title and setter, to be written below the grid."
4004	18/10/2008	Signal Boxes	Ploy	169	1	"In ten squares, an I in one answer clashes with an O in the other; these occur in even-numbered columns, and are to regarded as inputs and outputs to logic gates OR, NOT, AND, NAND, NOR, which are to be found in the intervening columns. The correct choice of settings is determined by the appearance of BOOLE and LOGIC in the second and fourth columns and SHANNON and CIRCUIT in the tenth and twelfth."
4005	25/10/2008	Wild Goose Chase	Tea Leaves	144	2	"All clues are double; of the two answers at each location, one is initially entered in the grid. The remainder form four groups of seven (games, trees, colours and containers) and a group of ten birds. Taking in clue order the words outside the last group and reading letters in positions 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... spells NEW ANSWER AT THIRTY-THREE ACROSS, revealing where the first of the birds is to be entered; placing likewise the other nine birds in appropriate positions gives a new grid with all entries still words."
4006	01/11/2008	We Interrupt this Programme ...	Phi	144	2	"In six lights with DLM clues the answers MUSIC, NEWS, DRAMA, SPORT, TRAFFIC, WEATHER have three consecutive letters inserted, spelling MARTIANS HAVE LANDED; unclued lights are FORT WATERSHED HOWL, forming an anagram of 'THE WAR OF THE WORLDS', the broadcast of which on 30/10/1938 the puzzle commemorates. Seven lights gain or lose the letter E on entry, reflecting the relationship between the names WELLS and WELLES, to be written beneath the grid."
4007	08/11/2008	Songspiel	Dysart	169	2	"Down clues are MP; taking alternately correct letters and misprints spells 'THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'. The answers AVENIR, SEASON, PORRIDGE, PERIOD are entered as anagrams NAIVER, NAOSES, PERIGORD, DOPIER; in thirteen other answers all letters T are changed to create a different word, the change usually being determined by the need to avoid clashes, although the changes at the beginning of the top row are made in such a way as to allow BOB DYLAN to appear there. The song addresses writers, critics, senators, congressmen, mothers and fathers; synonyms of five of these appear either as or in lights, while the sixth, CONGRESSMEN, is to be written beneath the grid."
4008	15/11/2008	Knitware	149	144	2	"Answers are to be entered according to knitting instructions 'p1, k2, p1, k...' for across lights (i.e., first and fourth letters must change) and 'p1, k3, & rpt' for down (i.e., first and fifth letters must change). Seven asterisked clues then have lights CARDIGAN, SWEATER, JUMPER, JERSEY, ARAN, PULLOVER, WOOLLY."
4009	22/11/2008	Three Rings	Franc	180	12R	"Grid is circular. In each group of four radial lights, one is entered inwards, one outwards and the other two are jumbled; clues to these contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell KELLY, FRATELLINI, MAJOR, CODONAS, CONCELLOS, GAONA, HOUDINI, all trapeze artists. Innermost ring contains the originator of the act JULES LEOTARD, while the fourth ring reading inwards contains THE CIRQUE NAPOLEON IN PARIS, where he made his debut; the second ring contains SEALS, ACROBAT, FIRE-EATER, HORSES, LIONS, JUMBO, MONKEY, CLOWNS, clued without definition in alphabetical order."
4010	29/11/2008	Euclid's Algorithm	Aedites	130	2	"Numerical puzzle; grid is circular. All lights are five-digit, and are products of distinct primes less than or equal to 79; these primes are allocated letters in a random fashion. Whenever two lights cross, the letters corresponding to the prime factors they have in common are given."
4011	06/12/2008	Conflict Resolution	Kea	144	4	"In 12 symmetrically placed squares, letters from across and down lights clash; corresponding clues are MP, spelling SUM OF CLASHES AND MISPRINTS. Adding together the two clashing letters and the two misprints in each such location and reading the result from left to right and top to bottom in the grid spells MOVE ALL WORDS; by repositioning each light (with across lights becoming down and vice versa) it is possible to form a perfect grid, the desired 're-solution'."
4012	13/12/2008	Explanation	Lato	182	2	"Central light (unclued) is JULIUS CAESAR, who said 'LET ME HAVE MEN ABOUT ME THAT ARE FAT'; perimeter contains HENRY VIII, FRIAR TUCK, HOMER SIMPSON, MR. GREEDY, OLIVER HARDY. Four lights clued without definition are TUNA, MALT, MEAT, BEEFHAM; removing their letters from the quotation, adding the remaining letter Y from the perimeter and rearranging gives THEY OVERATE, to be written beneath the grid (the unclued lights PAST TENSE specify that the second word is not OVEREAT)."
4013	20/12/2008	A Game of 1 [Hunt the Slipper]	Glow-worm	196	2	"Most clues are MP, with misprints spelling 'SOME PHYSICAL CONTACT, EVEN IF DECOROUS'; remaining eight clues each contain a definition of the answer and a passage consisting of the word SLIPPER interrupted by two jumbled children's names, whose initial letters spell SLIPPERY CUSTOMER, to be written beneath the grid. Perimeter contains 'PRODUCING WHAT? A PAIR OF SLIPPERS, SIR, TO PUT ON WHEN YOU'RE WEARY'; the SLIPPER of 1 Dn crosses another SLIPPER, and both are to be highlighted."
4014	27/12/2008	Without Bars	Elgin	182	2	"Grid has numbers but no bars. Four answers are to be jumbled and only those letters given by crossing clued lights entered; remaining letters may be arranged to form the unclued lights HERALD ANGELS. Letters in asterisked squares may be arranged to form LINE FIVE, indicating 'JOYFUL ALL YE NATIONS RISE'; seven unclued down lights are reversed names of countries. The original four lights may then be completed to form 'MY CHAINS FELL OFF, MY HEART WAS FREE'; the completing letters may be arranged to form the hymn's author CHARLES WESLEY, to be entered upwards in the hitherto empty final column, extending several across lights to form new words and converting the grid to the position after 'I ROSE' from that after 'WENT FORTH'."