1. Bertie Wooster (the narrator) has been commissioned by his good and deserving Aunt Dahlia to sneer at a silver cow-creamer in a Brompton Road antique shop, so that the seller, his confidence thoroughly sapped, will let the eyesore go at a lower price to Bertie’s Uncle Tom. [The Code of the Woosters, ch. 1]

2. Some of you correctly pointed out that it is virtually impossible to identify the owner of the clocks, since they presumably belong to the landlord or landlady who rented furnished rooms to Mrs Horace Hignett (A), the well-known author of "The Spreading Light", "What of the Morrow", etc. [The Girl on the Boat (UK) / Three Men and a Maid (US), opening paragraph]

3. Jill Mariner (D) is going to be talked to by "Dutch Uncle" Freddie Rooke (B), who will plead the cause of his friend Sir Derek Underhill (C) to her. [Jill the Reckless (UK) / The Little Warrior (US), ch. 4 "The Last of the Rookes Takes a Hand"]

4. Lord Ickenham, here in conversation with his nephew Pongo Twistleton, is going to talk like a Dutch godfather to his godson Jonathan Pearce (F), to make sure he isn’t trifling with the affections of his fiancee Bunny Farringdon. E is Phoebe Wisdom and G is Johnny’s formidable old nurse Nannie Bruce. [Cocktail Time, ch. 7]

Round 162 - 29 August 2003

1. The tactless babbler (B) is Mac, the stage door guardian at the Regal Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, talking to Ronnie Fish (A). [Summer Lightning (UK) / Fish Preferred (US), ch. 2]

2. D is Mitchell Holmes. His fiancee, Millicent Boyd (C), in an attempt to keep Mitchell from losing his temper while playing golf with his boss, brings up Napoleon, who was cited as an example of self-control in Orlando Rolitt’s book "Are You Your Own Master?" ['Ordeal by Golf', from The Clicking of Cuthbert]

3. The narrator is Bertie Wooster, setting a flour bomb on top of Oliver Sipperley’s (E) office door, for the benefit of Sippy’s old headmaster, Mr Waterbury. In the end, of course, Bertie sets it off himself! ['The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy', from Very Good, Jeeves]

4. The two leading brains behind this imbroglio are Esmond Bates (F), also known as "Old Stinker", and Bobbie Wickham’s cousin Wilfred. The boy Esmond has been carrying a white mouse in his breast pocket, which most unfortunately provokes the battle. ['The Passing of Ambrose', from Mr Mulliner Speaking]

Round 163 - 8 September 2003

1. The ghastly writer (and reader!) of letters is His Disgraceful Grace Alaric, Duke of Dunstable (A), here talking to Lady Constance Schoonmaker née Threepwood [A Pelican at Blandings (UK) / No Nudes is Good Nudes (US), ch. 8].

2. B is Freddie Widgeon’s uncle, Lord Blicester, whose top hat has been knocked off by Barmy Phipp’s cousin Egbert, by means of a catapult and one Brazil nut ["The Masked Troubadour", in Lord Emsworth and Others]. One remembers gratefully that the same catapult, borrowed by Lord Ickenham, was responsible for de-toppering Sir Raymond Bastable’s head in Cocktail Time.

3. Cedric Mulliner, forced by Lady Chloe Downblotton to change foot-joy ("The banana specials! The yellow perils!") with her betrothed Claude, is on his way to see his secretary, Miss Myrtle Watling (C) ["The Story of Cedric", in Mr Mulliner Speaking].

4. This fine specimen of epistolary literature was sent to The Times by "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano", one of the numerous pen names assumed by "Doctor" Alexander "Chimp" Twist, in order to get a spot of free publicity for his "fat-farm" (thank you, Mark Hodson, for this mot absolutely juste), Healthward Ho [Money for Nothing, ch. 2].

Round 164 - 18 September 2003

1. The temporary disciple of Schopenhauer is Bream Mortimer. The main speaker is Sam Marlowe, talking to Eustace Hignett, and A is Billie Bennett [The Girl on the Boat (UK) / Three Men and a Maid (US), ch. 5].

2. Lord Rowcester (or Towcester, in the United States of North America) is speaking to Jeeves (B) about Mrs Spottsworth (C) [Ring for Jeeves (UK) / The Return of Jeeves (US), ch. 9].

3. E is Reginald Mulliner, accompanied by Miss Frisby (D) at the village concert ["Big Business", in A Few Quick Ones].

4. Millicent Threepwood is boosting Schopenhauer’s bilge in conversation with Sue Brown [Summer Lightning (UK) / Fish Preferred (US), ch. 11].

Round 165 - 26 September 2003

1. Captain Biggar (Ring for Jeeves, US title The Return of Jeeves, Chapter 8)

2. Sir Buckstone Abbott, father of Imogen (Jane) and author of "My Sporting Memories". (Summer Moonshine, Chapter 1)

3. Colonel Francis Pashley-Drake, author of "My Life with Rod and Gun"; D is Lancelot Bingley. ("A Good Cigar Is a Smoke," Plum Pie)

4. Captain John Fosdyke; F is Agnes Flack. ("Feet of Clay", Nothing Serious)

Extra Credit: Lionel Popjoy; the source is Wodehouse's introduction to The World of Mr Mulliner.

Round 166 - 7 October 2003

1. Mrs. Welleseley Cork, author of A Woman in the Wilds. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 6)

2. Jane Hubbard (The Girl on the Boat, US title Three Men and a Maid, Chapter 17)

3. F is Lady Bassett, talking with Cyril Mulliner about, as he later puts it, "rhinoceri and pythons and her daughter Amelia and alligators and all that sort of thing." ("Strychine in the Soup", Mulliner Nights)

4. Charlotte Mulliner; her intended victim is Colonel Sir Francis Pashley-Drake, featured in last week's quiz. ("Unpleasantness at
Bludleigh Court", Mr Mulliner Speaking)

Round 167 - 16 October 2003

1. Freddie Widgeon, talking with his uncle, Lord Blicester. (Ice in the Bedroom, Chapter 19)

2. Tod Bingham (A) is unable to appear because Battling Billson, believing him to be a rival for Flossie Burns's affections, has knocked him out. ("The Début of Battling Billson," Ukridge)

3. Bradbury Fisher is nerving himself to break it to his wife that he has traded their butler, Blizzard, for Bobby Jones's baby baffy. ("High Stakes," Heart of a Goof)

4. Officer Garroway, the noted policeman-poet (author of the stark and poignant "Streets"), has encountered George Finch. (The Small Bachelor, Chapter 18)

Extra Credit: Bertie Wooster and Jeeves discuss an ursine visitor in Wodehouse's version of Shakespeare's stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear." (Over 70, Chapter 5)

Round 168 - 24 October 2003

1. A is ffinch Hall, home of Sir Jasper ffinch-ffarowmere, suspected by Wilfred Mulliner of being a ffoul ffiend. ("A Slice of Life," Meet Mr Mulliner, Herbert Jenkins 1927, pp. 39ff.)

2. Honeysuckle Cottage (a "nasty, sloppy name," as Mr. Mulliner points out). ("Honeysuckle Cottage," Meet Mr Mulliner)

3. Professor Pepperidge Farmer, the hypnotist. ("Sleepy Time," Plum Pie)

4. Eggy (F) and Joey Cooley (H) are discussing the face of Reginald John Peter Swithin, third Earl of Havershot (G), a man with a heart of gold and a gorilla's face. (Laughing Gas, Chapter 28)

Extra Credit: Agatha Christie dedicated her 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party "To PG Wodehouse, whose books and stories have brightened my life for many years. Also, to show my pleasure in his having been kind enough to tell me he enjoyed my books."

Round 169 - 4 November 2003

1. The conversation at the Mottled Oyster was between Mr Bertram Wilberforce Wooster (alias Ephraim Gadsby of the Nasturtiums, Jubilee Road, Streatham Common) and Lady Florence Craye, who declined the opportunity to bill herself as Matilda Bott of 365 Churchill Avenue, East Dulwich by making a sudden dash for freedom. As her companion assisted her in her escape, Mr Gadsby was left to face the awful majesty of the law the next morning before the Vinton Street beak. From Chapter Five of Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit.

2. George Finch and Delancy Cabot were sharing a table at The Purple Chicken when Mr Cabot revealed himself to be Officer Garroway of the New York Police Department. The waiter, Giuseppe (Guiseppe in some editions), was a noted heart-breaker back in Assisi. From Chapter Sixteen of The Small Bachelor.

3. Montrose Bodkin, Ivor Llewellyn and Alexandra Miller (C, D, and E, respectively) were enjoying a night out at The Happy Prawn (F) when Cheeser Chisholm and his colleagues raided the joint, making it clear that Mr Bodkin was correct when he expressed doubts to Mr Llewellyn about the chances of B, Otto Flannery, buying off the rozzers. From Chapter Seven of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (The Plot That Thickened).

4. G, Mabel Murgatroyd, and H, Bingo Little, took a moment to stroll down memory lane (the water barrel incident was first described in "The Word in Season" from A Few Quick Ones) before attempting to
Ban the Bomb in "Bingo Bans the Bomb".

5. Mr JG "Looney" Coote was conducting a one-man raid on a gambling den at the Cedars, Wimbledon Common, much to the alarm of the casino operator, Oakshott, (J), in the Ukridge yarn "Success Story". Ukridge (the narrator of this incident) also finds himself impersonating the police later on.

Round 170 - 14 November 2003

1. Police Constable Butt, (A), made the mistake of intervening in a private dispute between the young scholars of Wrykyn and a pair of townees, the point in dispute being whether or not the townees were justified in pelting Wyatt, (H), with a tomato. Unfortunately Constable Butt's decision to take the townees' side in the argument came at the precise moment that Wyatt and his friends were scoring important points in the debate by ducking the townees in a convenient muddy pond. (From Chapter Eight of Mike, which later became Chapter Eight of Mike at Wrykyn.)

2. Sir Aylmer "Mugsy" Bostock, JP, is interviewing PC Harold Potter; C is Reginald "Pongo" Twistleton[-Twistleton]; We know that the real culprit was "A Scarlet Woman," later revealed to be Sally Painter. (Chapter Thirteen of Uncle Dymamite.)

3. D is Jeeves, while E, the swimmer, is PC G "Stilton" D'Arcy Cheesewright. (From Chapter Twenty-Five of Joy (Jeeves) in the Morning.)

4. The F's are of course Soapy and Dolly Molloy. The injured officer was Freddie Widgeon's cousin's George, ardent ticket seller for the Policemen's Concert (Chapter Twenty Five of (The) Ice in the Bedroom.)