SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 819

ACROSS 1 Nothing sinister in the marsh to alarm (8).

5 Pig in a soak? (6).

9 Its occupants are a wooden lot (5, 3).

10 General Matador? (6).

12 Early space-traveller (6).

13 Horse I'm able to get in the City (8). 15 Calliope's fair habitation (5-2-5).

18 They're obviously on the shelf! (5- 2-5).

23 Colour a jelly in the West (8).

24 Sloth surrounds discernment in a rodent (6).

26 was her favourite suit.' (Lamb) (6).

27 The lady's seized in error seemingly (8).

28 The Stock Exchange shows its claws (6).

29 Inverted cry of the modeller is two- edited (8).

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2 As the baby-sitter might have it's crystal-clear! (6).

3 " Have you had dinner ?" mig thus rendered archaically (7).

4 '. . . their heads are hung With that sweep away the morning (Shakespeare) (4).

6 He takes the lead in his work ( 7 Good players use it as seldo possible (4, 4).

8 Thy drone is heard in lament (8 11 Hastened? Continue, to get t eastern city (7).

14 His papers were published in (7).

16 Peacock Castle (8).

17 A drop of water (8).

19 Listen, X (7).

20 The music-hall is twice this (7).

21 She' S always on the look-out pre-fah! (6).

22 He's engaged abroad (6).

25 In this case, way won't do (4).

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 817 ON PAGE iii

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