SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 945

ACROSS

1 The fare's changed; it's down (8).

5 No honour in getting these free tickets (6).

9 Bones in the belfry? (8) 10 'And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft ---- airs' (Milton) (6).

12 King of Borneo, travelling incog. (6)

13 'I — lonely as a cloud' (Wordsworth) (8).

15 I am no plotter (anag.) (12).

18 Oddly enough, they're not sickle ones (7, 5).

23 Fido needs to go to bed, obviously (3-5).

24 One of the commodities in which John Welling- ton Wells dealt (6).

26 It branches out in a big way at stag parties (6).

27 Mastered in fluid guise (8).

28 Cossack had a meal; was it free? (6) 29 Incidentally pie's pied with verse (8).

DOWN quiz (6).

2 A graduate, Edward (6).

3 Used by the vaulter perhaps (3-4).

4 Crumpled but distinguished backview (4).

6 Glad, Amy, to get an old nut? (7) 7 Strikers go into a huddle to get parsnips (8).

8 Wriggling nude hidden under the beach (4-4).

11 Accountant, legislator and I get on, in the pink 7

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14 'There's the wind on the heath, —' (Borrow) (7).

16 Lake musicians? Who the Dickens are they? (8) 17 Hove in sight from here? (8)

19 Ten men and I confused with Victorians (7).

20 Sleepyheads (7).

21 Decamped about morning (6).

22 How did March 15 appear in ancient Rome, privately? (6)

25 It's the end (4).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a hook token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on July 2 and addressed: Crossword No. 945, 99 Gower St., London, WCI.

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

Solution on July 5 Solution to No. 943 on page 828 The winners of Crossword No. 943 are: LADY HODSON, Pritt's Cottage), Southwold, Suffolk, and LADY DUGDALE, IVIerevale Hall, Atherstone. Warwicks.

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