SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1185

ACROSS 1. A tale he told of gambling with death (8) 5. All trembling, like the fish (6) 9. A degree makes him doubly eligible! (8) 10. Time gets a grip here (6) 12. Not the vehicle for those wish- 3. trig to travel incognito (6)

13. Rowley's little game? (4-4) 15. Troubles with trials (12) 18. Madame X's profession? (7-5)

23. It's the rich wot gets it (8) 24. Where to find land for castles in the air? (6) 8.

26. Dave got back to the editor and got round it this way (6) 27. Here's bait, by the look of it 14. (4-4)

2-8. Perceive present and past—what N. fun it is! (6)

DOWN It would be rare indeed to find one alone on the beach (6) The earthy old playwright? (6) Such a frank look might come from being out of doors (4-3) Rose, it's love (4) Get a depression in the dunes (4-3) Might one hear something against space while waiting here? (8)

How to give Eternal Delight, ac- cording to Blake (8) Ring for him, the hound (7) The philosopher whose work WAS a labour of love (7)

Here it was proposed to chasten the inebriate seaman (8) 29. Stop her with a penny for a bit of history (8)

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17. The look of a printer? (4-4) 19. A bit of decoration (7)

20. He laid the egg that Luther hatched, it is said (7) 21. Silent at change (6)

22. 'You have deliberately Iwo worms and you can leave Oxford by the town drain' (Dr. Spooner) (6) 25. That crazy engine (4) Solution next week ill 2

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