SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 884

ACROSS 1 The kind of compensation that the dieter dreads (10).

6 An objection at the border (4).

10 Keats's December was so flighted (5).

11 Play within a play? (9) 12 Sam turns his back on the soloist (9).

13 To keep it, one doesn't need to score (3, 2).

14 Crying apes (snag.) (10).

16 Extent of a yard (4).

18 Awkward young fellow might shoot or kick (4).

20 Wardens survey part of the livery (10).

23 Alliance that is a pattern to all (5).

24 About the bit of pudding I consumed, I deny it l (9) 27 The Castle of J. Thomson (9).

28 'The light that -, the night that wins' (Swinburne) (5).

29 Food for the traveller (4).

30 Need to help should be swiftly com- municated (10).

DOWN 1 How is she? Up and down (5).

2 Keep cool, ma laddie, the bottom's on the ship (7).

3 Ran amok in feathers in lessons (8).

4 Confectioner's art is cold (5).

5 Producers of rabbits, but not by rabbits! (3-6)

7 What a cad the kangaroo is, (7) 8 Spain's the place for tragedians (9).

9 'Boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to -' (Shakespeare) (5).

14 He gives a kiss with disapproval, th • old hypocrite (9).

15 The shantyman's objective (3, 6). 17 'His face is all hubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire' (Shake- speare) (8).

19 Hero-worshipper of old (7).

21 A lion is in the union (7).

22 Cuts down the moorlands (5).

25 A little lunch for Sandy (5).

26 No constraint with a copper (5).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on May I and addressed: Crossword No. 8114, 99 Gower St., London, WCI

Ckatnbers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.