21 AUGUST 1964, Page 30

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1132

ACROSS 1. A big drink will overcome the motorists's shock (6) 4. Let me be your Guide! (8) 10. The beginning of a stormy night for Eustacia's lover (7) 11. Sly look from close associates of the Confederate general (7) 12. The kind of to-do that Becket made? (10) 13. Make it hot for Mrs. Mopp! (4) 15. 'Stay, stay, until the - day Has run But to the evensong' (Herrick) (7) 17. The lintel is no smart recon- struction.

19. Steely looks (7) 21. That pie-girl? (Pudding, that is) (7) 23. You can call her a puss (4) 24. Courts display Persian fashions (10) 27. Just look at the boy coming back; it's a disgrace (7) 28. He's one up on Goldsmith (7) 29. Cubs, in fact (3-5) 30. Schoolmaster like Dr. Johnson (6) DOWN

I. Like the victim of one wearing a fascinator? (9)

2. A vanishing race of tourists (7) 3. Performers (10) 5. Places where local teas may be got (9) 6. The thing's done, look at it as you will (4) 7. Guests at the round table for an idyllic dinner (7) 8. Jolly dance, Sir, what? (5) 9. 'The -, the yellow leaf' (Shakespeare) (4) 14. Espies tart, looming in the hang- ings! (10) 16. Aim6e McPherson was a hot one (9) 18. Realm most given to 12 across (9) 20. Eppch-making dress that's fit only for the dustman (7)

22. Like the smallest giant or the biggest dwarf? (7).

23. Plenty ready to entertain (5) 25. One look at the idol (4) 26. As - as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean' (Coleridge) (4) Solution next week