SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,023
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1 I'd turn hack to the brasshats (8) 5 Ready to be hung for a put-up job? (6)
9 'A — of the empire and the rule' (Shakespeare) (3-5) 10 Exhibited in a brilliant, fast rally 1 (6) 12 Hypocrisy gets small thtmks (7) 13 Citizen returns after getting no- 2 thing, next to nothing (7) 14 The boss is most advanced (4-8) 3 17 Prescribed for those on the wagon? (5-7) 4 22 It makes sin seem retributive (7) 23 Tearing about will discover the 6 knight (7) 7 24 Cockney's mild expostulation might be poetically timely! (6) 8
15 'He reads much; he is a great ' 11
(Shakespeare) (8) The pugilist might be armed to the teeth after a blow here (6) Lovelace was so attached to Althea's eye (8)
DOWN .
Cooks make a start at the beginning of December and Oc- tober (6) Chairs! Shiningly upholstered, no doubt (6) A short announcement, distin- guished but tardy (7) The, game might be, but it's cheating (4, 3, 5) Or a lie's told by the girl (7) 'And — looks on the sea' (Byron) (8) Alice and Ted are united (8) I bring recoil—from the reformer ? (12) 27
A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of i'm book token for one guinea will he awarded to the senders of the first twu correct solutions opened on Dec. 30. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,023, 99 Gower St., London, WC1.
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Solution on January 2
15 Harold's mistress was obviously round the bend! (4-4) 16 But actions speak louder than words in the case of sportsmen (8) 18 Sun is in the ascendant; what's for lunch ?'(7)
19 The home of the Forlieula? Really! (7)
20 'The —, snarling trumpets 'gun to chide' (Keats) (6) 21 Do rest in the reserve (6)
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