SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 852

ACROSS

1 When one might expect to hear the bells of St. Clement's on the field (4-4).

5 Jack takes his raincoat at the airport (6).

9 Apt in age to number from the left (8). 10. Ambroise Thomas's darling (6).

12 Praise bet (6) 13 The celery seems very young (8).

15 Assailants, very dramatic, apparently in search of fodder (12).

18 He might have saved Eve a lot of trouble (5-7).

23 A chance drink to a party man (8).

24. . ' and in the fire of Spring, The - Garment of Repentance fling' (Omar Khayyam) (6).

26 Soil in very short supply (6).

27 He's a person of singular habit (8).

28 Dawn's mantle in Denmark (6).

29 Tenancy renewed, (reel (8)

DOWN .

1 Jack the Picker (6).

2 Flowery little scale (6).

3 Birds in terracotta? (7) 4 Have some tea, chum (4).

6 Oxter(ial I) to the Scot (7).

7 Charges for strictly stag parties are decreed (8).

8 The lady's against a rising item abroad 11 aving declaration of a political creed 14 ';edges of gold, great heaps Of

pearls' (Shakespeare) (7).

16 1 spread malicious reports among the waves (8).

17 Do male wags make these rules? (4, 4) 19 In the Solent it leads to a matter of nomenclature (7).

20 One of the Little People, possibly, in search of copper (7).

21 Art's on the upgrade, with an after- thought (6).

22 'Who gained no title, and who lost no ' (Pope) (6).

23 The girl for Wembley? (4)

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luse edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on September 27 and addressed: Crossword No. 852, 99 Gower St., London, WC1.

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