Prize Crossword
No. 1457 DAEDALUS
A prize of three guineas will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 7 December. Address solutions: Crossword 1957, The Spec, tator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1
Across 1 'Where the — Bermudas ride' (Marvell) (6) 4 Ruthless winning hand leads one to make facial twitches (8) 10 Park here in NYC (7) 11 'My object all — I shall achieve in time' (W.- S. Gilbert) (7) 12 Cheer mum as she takes to the pipe (10) 13 Common or garden potato (4) 15 Getting orientated (7) 17 Bee among judges in Israel (7)
19 lack achieves the marks (7)
21 Obedient as a customs officer might be? (7)
23 Nothing like it! (4) 24 A measure of cleanliness in the lower depths perhaps? (10)
27 Ruler of the waves personified? (7) 28 There's a sop to Ivor in this clause (7) 29 Wool-gathering (8) 30 Like threepenny heroine in the last ride (6) Down 1 How to take things lying down (9) 2 Bandar-Log (7) 3 Counterpoints for entrances (10) 5 Tested the depth again sonorously (9) 6 The doctor's at hand for half a whale (4) i A vessel to cope with 29 in a singular manner (7) 8 Lochinvar's was the best! (5) 9 Most of a Greek sacred river (4)
14 'Be more —, or else, good night your vow' (The Tempest) (10) 16 Actually it's in very good taste indeed (9) 18 Somewhat prickly boscage which provides screening perhaps? (9) 20 I get in to act out of veneration, in a sort of dream (7) 22 Healthy sluggard really more suitable (7) 23 Half a century turns these good felloss into burden-bearers (5)
25 Elgarland? (4) 26 'The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple —' (Noyes) (4) Solution and winner on 12 December
Solution to Crossword 1455. Across: 1 Pebble 4 Handbell 8 Pancakes 10 Schism 12 Orson 13 Pompadour 14 Elder 16 Electrify 17 Restrains 19 Salve 21 Ombudsman 22 Viper 24 Flames 25 Clarence 26 Ladyship 27 Anklet. Down: I Papoose 2 Bends 3 Learner 5 Duck-ant 6 Editorial 7 Lamprey 9 Euphemisms 11 Imper- sonal 15 Dashboard 17 Roomful 18 Redress 19 Savarin 20 Earnest 23 Panel.
Winner: Mrs H. A. Feisenberger, 66 White. lands House, Cheltenham Terrace, London sw3
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