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SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD 1,049 ACROSS. — 1 Overcame. 5 Slumps.

9 Flanders. 10 Barred. 12 Sheds. 13 Aventails. 14 Treble chance. 18 Wheel- barrows. 2t Discredit. 23 Heads, 24 Loosed. 25 Hour hand. 26 Deemed. 27 Assegais.

DOWN.-1 Offish, 2 Elater. 3 Cadastral.

4 Mortar-boards. 6 Leant. 7 Martians. 8 Sidestep, 11 Celebrations. 15 Hawthorne. 16 Swaddled. 17 Helstone. 19 Cabala. 20 Asides. 22 Reeve.

PRIZEWINNERS 1049: Mrs. A. M. Sat, 11 Pembroke. Square, London, W.8, and Mrs. F. P. Mernagh. 49 Tranby Lanc, Anlaby, E. Yorks.