SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 999 Solution on July 18
3 4 5 6 7
Nothing to pay on the containers 8 19 (11) zo A grin from the haymaker ? (3) 13 That bearded chum in U.S.A.? zz (4) 15 L'Iltrut ? (4,6)
ACROSS Fashionable garb yet the old instrumentalist had it (7)
Puss has tea in a low broad hat (7) Model who might display mink II, in a small way (7) ' You can get first-class lager on the II return (7)
Not the embarrassed language of the lover necessarily (10)
143 One must blow up the old city (4)
, Dear address as a rule (3) 14 .1 have often thought that a — Is born, as well as a poet' (Steele)
17
There's nothing in the old monster to harass (7) Caress the bird in exemplary fashion (7) I'm in later, he might say (7) They harp on so! (7) DOWN
So ma's had a rise in the island (5) 2 Crowd to look over the links? (9) They show a good deal of skin ibil (7)
Gray's was, however, noiseless! (5) Fairy fashion columns? (9) Land to visit or leave? (4) The girl's always going out! (5) 'We must not make a -- of the law' (Shakespeare) (9) Put your foot down, but gently does it (4, 5) This ship seems to require careful trimming (3-6) 26 27 28 29
A
tt4:11 Prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of 914 token for one guinea be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions "lied ou July 15. Address solutions: Crossword No, 999,99 Gower St., London, WC1. Ql.4mber5'5 Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords. 16 There's infinite scope here (9) 18 A snappy kind of blind (7) 21 Banter as in rot (5)
23 Unfriendly plant, but its occu- pants are in the pink! (5) 24 County Clare provides a good deal of the spectacle at Wim- bledon (5) 25 The sound of increased activity on the marshes (4)
Previous page
