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International Cryptic Christmas QuizAuthor(s): Robert JohnstoneSource: Fortnight, No. 312 (Dec., 1992), p. 51Published by: Fortnight Publications Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25553780 .

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H BOOKS ^^H

Frenchmen invariably are.

Intentionally and side-splittingly funny are, how

ever, the new edition of Woody Allen's Complete

Prose and the scripts from Renwick and Marshall's

One Foot in the Grave. Written in the mid-to-late

60s, before the onset of film stardom and?for the

viewer?agonising middle age, the Complete Prose

represents the 'funny' Woody, with more one-liners

on a page than in his last three cinematic ponderings

on the human condition. Renwick and Marshall's

'Hancock for the 90s' is a must for all those who love

their humour black and subversive?freewheelin'

Victor Meldrew, Lennie Bruce in a Des Lynamjumper

and comfy slippers.

Perhaps another filler to slip in your own stocking

is an odd little gathering. Robert Wilkins' Fireside

Book of Death is a veritable posy of all things deadly:

strange tales of suicides, burials alive, executions,

cemeteries, tombs, catacombs, famous last words,

ludicrous deaths, vampirism, necrophilia, body

snatching, crimes passionels, rotting carcasses and

preserved bodies. Just the thing to induce a state of

pleasurable morbidity.

However, the last word should go to two autobiog

raphies: Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Century

Hutchinson) and Helen Lewis' A Time to Speak

(Blackstaff). Keenan's story of his time in captivity,

of a journey back from the abyss of despair, is rare in

its eloquence and deserves to be prized for that

alone. More matter-of-fact and prosaic, but no less

moving, is Lewis' account of the Nazis' rise to power

and the road to Auschwitz. It has a plainness of style

which, like the work of Primo Levi, shows a simple

determination to bear witness that such horrors

happened in our century.

Both are testimonies that the spirit can endure

and still remain human. What more can a mere book

do? 4

International Cryptic Christmas Quiz

set by Robert Johnstone

1. Who said'Nej'?

2. Where did a new bike share the limelight?

3. Which Bohemian threatened to retread the boards?

4. Who couldn't spell 'potato'?

5. Which 'romantic' novelist attempted to emulate Orwell?

6. Who accused his partner of telling porkies about beef?

7. Who was relieved of his Zil?

8. Which Lynk was temporarily buried?

9. Who had too much fun?

10. Which Split suffered from a rift?

11. Who ceased talking when two articles were omitted?

12. Which slippery French seed proved a stumbling-block?

13. Which foreign birds were the first to conquer the world?

14. Who enjoyed generous public repasts in a lock-keeper's cottage?

15. Which reviled singer became responsible for grand opera? 16. Whose luminous career suffered from too many loaves?

17. Which islander adapted an epic and won a prize?

18. In whose case did non-use of a condom prove embarrassing? 19. ... and in whose did it prove beneficial?

20. Where did bricks without straw prove more durable than concrete?

21. What are the following: EFA; ETA; OFFER; OPSAHL; CDU; CAP? 22. Who said it was legal to pass on addresses?

23. Which Winstonian miner was replaced, without any reflection on his competence?

24. Who was finally tripped up by ten-year-old tape?

25. Whose green shoots failed to sprout after April 9th?

26. Which Scot was promoted after a heart attack?

27. Who carried on reconquering paradise?

28. Which chronicler of the Sons of the Desert bowed out after a century? 29. Where were elections postponed because of a fundamental success?

30. Whose facelift proved cubist?

Answers, please, to 'Christmas Quiz', Fortnight, 7 Lower Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NR, by January 4th. The three entrants

with the highest number of correct answers will receive free subscriptions to either Fortnight or the Honest Ulsterman, depending on their choice. Complete answers in Fortnight 31 4.

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