SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,040

ACROSS

1 Shady girl amid the pylons is sad 5(Does it mean that the Scottish dance is cancelled? (4, 3)

9 Mum's the word in France! (5) 10 Support can be got for low retail (5-4) 11 'And, in short, I was (Eliot) (6) 12 The moment for the share-out? (4, 4). 14 Cats entangled round love are full of song! (5) 15 That's settled, then! (9) 18 The painter of Parma (9) 20 No approval for shady corners

22 No) el should make her a good partner (8)

24 How Bottom preferred his hay served (6) 26 Table urns upset by him—in the mess, maybe (9) 27 'The — hath paced into the hall' (Coleridge) (5) ' 28 How and where the hammer aims )

29 N (7o tails on Broadway (7)

DOWN 1 Mingy cats at exercise (9) 2 I precede a stormy summer (7) 3 Archdeacon, it's up to you when tardy to cool down (7) 4 A stern daurer, according to Wordsworth 4)

5 Pull for the s ore, boy, the• artist might say (10) 6 She's among the well endowed (5)

7 Work on a railway is fairly precious (7) 8 'Thou canst not then be — to any man' (Shakespeare) (5) 13 Birds in combines surround a confused saint (10) 16 It enables the gardener to work indoors (6-3)

A first prize of a copy of Chambers', Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a book token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on April 2.8. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,040, 99 Gower St., London, WC1,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords. Solution on May 1

17 If Cook did, her offerings might not be! (9)

19 Made with a basis of Caerphilly, no doubt (7)

21 What the winner did to his rivals (7

22 'Se) e what a rent the envious -

made' (Shakespeare) (5) 23 The time for Schubert and Kew

Now, (5 Now, in short (4)

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