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Two prlys use awarded each seek - 4 copy 01 t he be

Luxe million of Chambers's Twentieth Cert-

tut in y and a book token for one guinea. These will be awarded to the sendert of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 23. and addressed: Crossword /108, 99 Gower Si.. trn,dun. W.C.1, solution mkt he ors the form lucre printed.The solution and the ',antes of the winner., will be published in the fallowing issue.

ACROSS 1 The route to the Cape, very tangy (6). 4 Sheep chooses dead trees (8). 8 Mend cape (anag.) (8). 10 Pithy sprites (6).

12 Beats the beast (5). 13 Don't say you can't solve it for nuts ! (9).

14 Is TNT coloured ? (5). 16 Mr. Pooter, for example (9). 17 Port for a Prime Minister (9). 19 A hundred join the Progressives, but broke (5). 21 Just the man if you want a gasconade (9). 22 'The dirty , Experience, in her kind Hath toed me' (Tennyson) (5). 24 Their clients are on edge (3-3). 25 Where Tit Willow slept '? (5-3). 26 In the manner of Stevenson's donkey (8). 27 The lily maid of Astolat (6).

DOWN: 1 He's Bert when in drink ! (7). 2 One conies to the tag-end of them (5). 3 Not the telephone book (7). 5 What a pagan the very reverend has become 1 (7). 6 Carey Street, botanically speaking (9). 7 The bastard hartebeest (7). 9 How it French solver likes to find his pencil ? (10). 11 Cries about facing negatives (10).

15 Unyielding character from Trollope (9). 17 Something's wrong with the daily manuscript (7). 18 What shocks their work leads to I (7). 19 It takes a good hide to do this (7). 20 It might be permitted about tobacco (7). 23 Ben Ezra (5).

The solution will be published on November 26

The winners Of Spectator Crossword No. 806 arc as follows: First Mtn to MRS. A MIER U. PAITERSON. 65 Thc Rise. Glasnevin, Dublin, and second prize to MR.

MoaalsON, Dalcairnic, Road. West Cults, Aberdeenshire.