Prize Crossword
No. 1479 DAEDALUS
A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first cor- rect solution opened on 10 May. Address solu- tions: Crossword 1479, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WCIE
Across 1 The shape of things to come (6) 4 Free steamship company to provide fresh works of art (8) 9 Painter with a hope is somewhat underdone (6) 10 'The — doors of sleep' (Alice Meynell) (8)
12 Aid bison to get the rock (8) 13 A striking call for total effort (3, 3) 15 'There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple —' (Yeats)
16 A shining example in Mrs Woolf's work (10) 19 This condition will never pass the acid test (10) 20 Where ice forms on a racket to evoke the one-eyed god (4) 23 Cutting keys? (6) 25 Sure size to fit violent take-overs (8) 27 Like the blind Fury's shears (8)
28 The French glue accounts for loss of liquor (6) 29 Gamesmen of the mystic number (8)
30 Coward's companion to the sun-loving Englishman? (3,3) Down 1 Distance over which a shaggy beast might hope for a short cut? (7) 2 Citizens? Not quite! (9) 3 Concerning a team who live here (6) 5 Castle in the air (4)
6 Nick your second person? That would be furtive (8)
7 Love five; love fifty, love nothing, conform- ing to an architectural mould.(5)
8 Peter's hundred take up position as royal staff (7)
11 What the third monkey does to no-one (7) 14 'Charlotte, when she saw his body Borne before her on a —' (Thackeray) (7) 17 Covered manually, that's a shady way of going on (9) 18 Applaud such a snare? What utter rubbish (8) 19 Bats in a most unorthodox way, so do leave off l (7) 21 What to lay by to start one off in the poultry business? (4-3)
22 'It was the —'s breath' (Coventry Pat- more) (6)
24 Just like a cocky counterpart to be so grey (5) 26 Sprat's delight! (4) Solution and winner on 15 May.
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