Related Clues:

• Diary jottings
• Middle of bend makes severe demands on competitors
• Diary items; competitors accepted
• Items listed in book put in sequence, omitting the first
• Initiations when guards have been decapitated!
• Submissions to competition
• 'The souls of many Kings are vulgar -- ' (Peter Pindar, Odes to Kien Long)
• Drawing cards
• People going in
• Doors, gates
• The competitors sent packing storm in
• Ledger records
• Lists of competitors making appearances on stage
• The competition
• Recordings in French tests