SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1066 Solution on Dec. 18

ACROSS

1 Define a flirt (snag.) (12) 9 Reduction of gloom? There should he none at all (9)

10 Disorderly tribe (5) 11 There are dozens of these chaps

(6)

12 Only a small party on this oc- casion!18)

13 Young Mr. Poorer goes east with a wolfish look (6) 15 So a diner appears, /subject to changes (8)

.10 He gets the strap in the rush- hour! 16-2)

19 She embraces Paddy in the garden (6) 21 This should set the tongues wag- ging! (4-4) 23 'This is -- vein, a tyrant's vein', said Bottom (6) 26 A nymph will hear something to her advantage if she comes back (5) 27 One would hardly expect short weight in response to this (4. 5) 29 A thin time (3, 4, 5) DOWN I It's a sound measure (7) 2 Just the stuff for a crowd (5) 3 Under cane the victim should display it (9)

4 Today's elate (4)

5 Over the county hats look odd (81

6 A light girl (5) 7 Music from the borders (7)

8 Cite this for a moralist (8)

14 The optimist puts a shine on the cooking vessel (8)

16 Type error in store i9)

A first prim* of a copy of Chambers's 'Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a batik token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first mu correct solutions. opened on Dec. IS. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1066, 99 Gower St., London. WCI.

Chambers's 1-lientieth Ce'ttvu Dictionau is recommended Jar Crosswords.

17 Nobody would try to be patient here, or would he? (8)

18 Dressed according to custom? (7) 20 See about broken urns (7)

22 'All, but a man's — should exceed his grasp' (Browning) (5) 24 She is seen in a lovely diamond brooch (5) 25 The island can rise (4)