SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 896

ACROSS

1 Heigh-ho, the sheep. coming back got the wine (7).

5 'Where essential silence cheers and (R.L.S.) (7).

9 Halt a non-existent land (5).

10 A rebel in collision with the early omnibus (9).

11 Wordsworth had a second look at the milfoil (6).

12 A thousand and a song display flying fish (8).

14 Smart but not Christopher (5).

15 The function of the clue is to do this (9).

18 Speed is essential for the dwarf in a job (9).

20 Undertone of a bull? (5) 22 It simply bristles with efficiency (3, 5). 24 Run atop the helmet it might be (6).

26 Superior equal quantity (9).

27 The first Mrs. Soames Forsyte (5).

28 The wedding-guest does 'like a three. years child' (7).

29 A basket full of secrets (7). DOWN 1 'There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, for I did dream of - tonight' (Shakespeare) (5-4).

2 The little parson takes to Irish con- cerned with poetry (7).

3 It would be quite unrewarding to try to pick it (3-6).

4 Eugene,seems to have been musical (4).

5 'Much sound and little sense' in Gilbert's view apparently (3, 7).

6 Singularly pleased (5). 7 This onion doesn't measure up to the lady (7). 8 That's the worst of pomegranates (5).

13 Emu eggs do a 'surprising hatch out (10). 16 Twill make a good cloak (9).

17 All points to a rather crude gentleman

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9 -, always -, in silence and in gloom' (Aytoun) (7). 21 Does comfort diminish for those who take the house? (7) 22 Born a friend in an eastern kingdom (5). 23 Madame de la Ouida, so to speak (5). 25 I enlist in the Officers' Training Corps (4).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary sad a book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two coffee: solutions opened alter noon on July 24 and addressed: Crossword No, 891. 99 Gower St., London. WC1

Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.

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Solution on July 27 Solution to No :,19. • on page The winners of Crossword No. 894 are: MR. M. F. BAILEY, Ensleigh Lodge, Lansdown, Bath, and MR. JACK McKaraiz, 71 Main's Terrace. Dundee.