SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1079

ACROSS 1 Noises abroad? Just so! (6) 4 Bitterness seems inevitably in- volved with cash (8) 10 Apt to be confused (or not) in a renowned murderer (7)

11 Where chaps get vigour (7) 12 Paradoxically, such a one squares up to his offence (10) 13 Found among students of form? (4) 15 I'm in Canada, as Evangeline might correctly have said (7)

17 The little horse is lined with crunched maize (7)

19 There's a deal of wildness in such a hoax (7)

21 Quick return, but not necessarily small profit (7) 23 Laughter on the boundary (4)

24 Twin to Smart Mick, no doubt (6, 4) 27 First step in paying Paul? (7) 28 Wanda in the purple (7)

29 She baked a kind of cake, it seems (8)

30 A perfume's going up (6) DOWN 1 Foundation garments with rear fastenings? (9) 2 Little dogs, gambolling, take wing here! (7) 3 Did Aeolus do such a swop in his cave, perhaps? (5, 5)

5 He's just a beginner, academically, perhaps (9)

6 But when you have lost your — drown your empty selves' (Belloc) (4) 7 Oh, don't I get a hundred? (7)

8 Give place to the harvest (5)

9 The old king in a state of in- capacity (4) 14 Qualities displayed at the Old Boys' reunion? (10) 16 This weapon should make a very sharp report (6-3)

A first prize of a book token for one guinea and a second prize of a book token for fifteen shillings will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on Mar. IS. Addr us solutions: Crossword No. 1079. 99 Gower St., London, WCI.

Solution on March 18

18 'I do not want Michael Angelo for —' (Mark Twain) (9)

20 I'm some body, says the German slangily (7) 22 Cup lies broken (7) 23 Her ma might be found within it (5) 25 Men of distinction come up in a strange disguise (4) 26 Copper takes badly to water! (4)

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