28 MAY 1954, Page 62

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 784

Two prizes are awarded each week - a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Cen- tury Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. These will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on Tuesday week.

June 8th. and addressed: Crossword 784, 99 Cower Si., London, W .C.1. Solution must be on the form here printed. The solution and the names of the winners rrill be published in the following issue.

84. s'wn lays a wager round the ballot , boa. (6.) 86. " And yonder shines 's harbin- ', aer " (Shakespeare). (6.) 17. Stir runs In a trice for curry. (8.) 18. A dashing fellow from Spain. (6.) 69. Decline in plagues. (8.)

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14. I divide one with her. (7.) 16. A put-up job down on the farm. (8.) 17. " His wither'd cheek and tresses grey Scem'd to have known a better day " (Scott). (8.) 19. Sad peer transfixed. (7.) 20. A man of taste. (7.) 21. Do make n little more room for the artist to come in. (6.) 22. Flowers are in good supply. (6.) 25. Hanger-on on the telephone. (4.)