SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 963

ACROSS

1 'And once I touched a broken girl and knew that bled' (Flecker) (6).

4 It's a case of a mob of poets round a taxi (8).

10 Naming the wee bird with the heather (7).

11 Red hunt produces a roar (7).

12 Hullo! It's alright, Captain! (4) 13 Macbeth on his way to visit the witches? (10)

16 t so lax get a sorrel (6).

17 After a short walk I get an addition from the kitchen garden (7).

20 Fifty to Old Spain for the Republic (7).

21 Susanna's went up in smoke (6).

24 Worthless, and the street mendicant should be skilled at it (10).

25 The leading lady's very greedy (4).

27 I'm among vermin, though my coat is worn by good judges (7).

29 Bird who provides a nice lap (7). 30 Angel, sir, has a swinish look on coats of arms (8).

31 'He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a (Gray) (6).

DOWN 1 No inequalities in this case when a strike is expected (8).

2 Cut down on one's library books? Is it reason- able? (11)

3 Pressed down, but face up to it (4): 5 All cut us in the making of a poet (8).

6 No redcaps obviously among the Scots (4, 6).

7 'One lovely hand she stretched for (Campbell) (3).

8 Such a fuss follows a raised rod getting fish (6).

9 I am awestruck at the love-feast (5).

14 In old-fashioned marriage it was the keeper (5, 6).

15 Somebody's engaged in arson at the hut, it seems (4, 6).

18 'This - Bower my Prison' (Coleridge) (4, 4).

19 What the quality of mercy is not (8), 22 Idlers bed down in the ship (6).

23 Fido disapproves of the photographs, evidently (5). 26 A household god takes wings (4).

28 'The holy time is quiet as a -' (Wordsworth) (3).

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 at noon on November 5 and addressed; Crossword No. 963, 99 Gower St., London, WO

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

Solution on November 8 Solution, to No. 961 on page 559 The winners of Crossword No. 961 are: MR. 0. LOWRIR•FAIRS South Mossley Hill Road, Liverpool, and MRS. DAGNALL, 11 Pitcoho Terrace, Perth.