13 MAY 1955, Page 27

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 834

I We turn back to wave, and get the birdl (6).

4 What a heavenly fire there is here (8).

10 Trim Sal blown about in the wind (7).

11 'Come to my urms, my beamish boy' -and how I (7).

12 The hazard of the sea? (4, 6).

13 Now's the time for this. or Wit? (4). 15 Femmes Towles in Ireland, sure (7).

17 'And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our - hills' (Blake) (7).

19 X professors, very sinewy (7).

21 Cakes that would naturally disappear like lightning (7).

23 A pup, taken aback (4).

24 Tumultuous (10).

27 As a potato might be (7).

28 Pepper and grain are the subject of eager desire (7).

29 Unemployed worker in the studio? (8).

DOWN You'Il'find me, decorated, in the cart (9).

Composer who seems to be more than half Scotch (7).

It brought shipwreck to a famous traveller in the Mediterranean (10).

Daisy a-wheel is tremendous! (9). The key to learning (4). Arrayed like dire men (7).

'I know what you're thinking about,' said Tweedledum, 'but it isn't so, (Carroll) (5).

Agile subject of song (4). Kidnap the orchestra? (6, 4).

Such a task does not result in a bryological harvest (9).

These give rise to a distress, naturally (9).

Was he always expected to fork out? (7).

11. do disguise mendacity (7).

It shows strength of spirit (5). Frisky foal (4).

'0 take the - in hand and waive the rest' (Omar Khayyam) (4). 2 3

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two prizes will ho awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for 011V nuinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solution, opened after noon on May 24 and addressed: Crossword No. 834, 99 Gower St., London, W.C.I.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended Jro Crosswords,

Solution on May 27 Solution to No. 832 on page 111 Winners 01 Crossword No. 832 are: MRS. LAMBARDS, 19a High Street, Sevenoaks. Kent, and MR. LESLIE KING, 19 Brabourne Rise, Beckenham, Kent.