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SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No: 773

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Two prizes art awarded each week - a book token for one guinea On& * copy of the De Lure edition of Chambers's Twentieth CO- fury Dictionary. These win be awarded ta the senders of the first two correct solution, opened after noon on Tuesday week Starch 23rd, and addressed: Crossword 773, 99 Gower St., London, W.0.1. Solution Mgt be on the form here printed. The solution and the names of the whiners Will brt Published in the

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Soar on, Brutus. (Anag.) (12.) The apartment you kindly provided is rather windy. (9.) " 0 - Love, half angel and half bird " (Browning). (5.)

Sa chanson, c'est " La Wt.." (6.) Girl in silk. (8.)

Circular. (10.)

So let It be I (4.) To be found in the ladies' pylama department. (4.)

Is a cab idle for the general ? (10.) The shoemakers jettison their equip- ment. (8.) Buckinghamshire poet. (6.) The china is almost covered by the heraldic device. (5.) 16. A lion gone wrong I (9.) 17. " That ache, penury and - can lay on nature " (Shakespeare). (12.)

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4. The mark of the beast. (5.) Shakespeare's strength Is in this. (4.) Here's richness I (8.)

4. Perched on a monument with the others in a rag. (10.) 8. " Sometimes with secure delight the - hamlets will invite " (Milton). (6.) 6. That's nothing to do with it. (9.)

7. Disc-Jockey's asides. (3, 3, 6.)

10. Proverbially less painful at the receiv-

ing end. (12.)

13. Heavy necklaces. (10.)

15. Head of Cornpositae. (9.)

17, Philosopher born to guide. (8.) 20. " . . won't," says the singer. (6.) 23. I'm a host In Myself. (5.) 24. " The - on my left and the dawn on my right " (Benue). (4.)