SPECTATOR CROSSWORD . No. 826

ACROSS

1 Suitable blossom for Lord Mackin- tosh's buttonhole? (6).

4 'Some heart once-with celestial fire' (Gray) (8).

8 Praised a change in Heaven (8).

10 'What-home-spuns have we swaggering here?' (Shakespeare) (6). 12 Invalid gets nothing at cards (5).

13 Like the river-girls? (9). 14 The Cockney's stout denial of infection (5). 16 Exemplified in the collapse of Goliath (9). 17 The planter's idea of a 'beaker full of the warm South'? (4, 5).

19 Is he likely to be out for a duck? (5). 21 Coppers surround the cleaner in confusion (9).

22 Be a little saint! (5).

24 The author of Tristram Shandy makes a dramatic appearance, dis- guised (6). 25 They are definitely on the record, these enactments (8).

26 Rule round a bird goes backwards (8). 27 Give them the bill for the geraniums (6).

DOWN 1 The high spot of the coiffeur's art? (7).

2 The kind of pen with which Songs of Innocence were written (5).

3 Example of radio technique dis- played by the Cheshire Cat (7).

5 Tom Pearse's grey mare has obvi-

ously migrated to Australia (7).

6 It's the little hoppers that make a hippo mad (9). 7 Any, cent for a holding (7).

9 Deprive the fish of food? Poor creature (10).

11 Father goes haltingly to the over- turned set (10).

15 'Let me not burst in-', said Hamlet (9).

17 Clean up the little dears, the little dears! (7). 18 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life', he said (7).

19 Expert practitioner, but what a little catch! (7).

20 Ten is as confused as can be archi- tecturally (7). 23 The show must go on, in West London (5).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe and a book token for one guMea. They will be awe opened after noon on March29 and addressed:

edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary riled to the senders of the first two correct solutions Crossword 826, 99 Gower St., London, W.C.I.

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Solution on April 1 Solution to No. 823 on page II

Winners of Crossword No. 824: MRS. A. H. HILLMAN, 65a Mill Road Wonhing, Sussex; MR. W. M. MACKAY, 305 ClepIngton Road, Dundee

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