17 JANUARY 1964, Page 31

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1101

S Leaves off, but not in the autumnal sense (7) 9 Right, there's a bull at large in

1(?,a palindrome (5) The ivy falls with the —'s hair' (Swinburnc) (9)

11 Goes slow in the swimming-bath, it seems, oddly enough (6)

12 The order to begin practice on the range? (6, 2)

14 1 log zero in the house (5)

15 Worker, a graduate, gets wrong in the hardware (4-5) 18 A moving sort of case (9)

20 Self-declared male; that's capi- tal! (5) 22 Blows up the poor actor (8) 24 So a dame and a constable move on (6) 27 Nothing mean about this Irish- man (5) 28 The. Christmas activity of the deer (7) 29 The proverbially heart-warming state (7) DOWN

I A pointer from 11.Q. (9) 2 On the track of a rodent (3-4)

3 The first of the fourth victim (5, 4) 4 One with a handle to his name (4) 5 The book of the words (10) 6 Ha, twice about, Sir! (5) 7 Current show-girls at Burlington House ? (7) 8 Pals duck all over the place (5) 13 It's nerve-racking to make a song about a tea-party host (10) 16 A couple allows for adorn- ments (9) 17 Coins in perfect condition (9)

19 '— is a good travelling name and so I take it' (Farquhar) (7) 21 Smithtieldian? (7)' 22 Which place, did 1 hear? (5)

23 The creature who starts off all right but ends up symbolic (5) 25 How Bartok began (4) Solution next week

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