SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1082
ACROSS 1 Is it possible to find work for the stoersman? (7) 5 The reveller's got a skinfull (7) 29 9 Right for a long time (5) 10 Do performers on these get paid on a sliding scale? (9) 11 What a tranquilliser should do (6) 12 Chief of the Almanac!, de Gotha?
(8) 14 Supernumerary from the cavalry? (5) 15 Like Pippa's Song (9) 18 Nothing reserved at the auction (9) 20 Mother, Mother! (5) 22 Sit up back in the river (8) 24 The Editor announces he en- counters wickedness ip a little pest (6) 26 An airy palace (9) 'Grow old — with me', said Browning (5) Lark has force in the Orient (7) Iron basket in which to grow Arabis perhaps (7) DOWN Winkle out information about hair-styles (9) One grid of dark appearance (7) Advertise a steed or send it by mill (4-5) Adamson the talkative? (4) The calling of any pencil-sharpener (10) Alfred the Good perhaps (5) What a blessing for Milton `If Jonson's learned sock be on' (7) Mr. Therm's last word? (5) Dora's in a whirl after a turn in the samba (10) 27 28 1 2 3 4 5
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A first prize of a book token for one guinea and a second prize of a book token for fifteen *billings will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on April 5. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1082. 99 Gower St., London, WC1.
Solution on April 8 16 'Thou art more lovely and more —' (Shakespeare) (9) 17 The Grove might provide such publicity (9) 19 Work does so beset (7) 21 Out of the way, please (7) 22 Pull out a pound? (5) 23 Part of what Mister Atkins gets 'when the band begins to play' (5) 25 Discovered in abundant alchemy (4)
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