XIMENES CROSSWORD No. 1149

DUNDERHEAD

[From Ximenes Slip No. 1154]
 
Now I must express my great regret about the destruction of the “Birdless Grove” competition. I must at once explain that the Colour Magazine has to be finally printed so long before publication that it is impossible to make last minute announcements in it; these have to go in the paper (with “Everyman”). I wish there had been an immediate announcement there on Jan. 31 cancelling the competition; it wasn’t my fault that there was none. But those who rang up the office for information were told the competition was off; after that I obviously couldn’t accept the fifty odd entries which reached me by various means. I was especially sorry for the incredible enthusiast who bicycled (push-bike, sic) twenty odd miles here from Hove in the dark to deliver his entry.