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 Memo