SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,047
ACROSS 1 The play has evidently begun (6) 4 But one isn't so swindled at Battersea! (4, 1, 3) 8 Mrs. Malaprop's literary reptile (8) 10 His hero made little steady pro- gress (6) 12 Oh, Mother, do laugh (5) 13 Dost anger the little monsters? (9) 14 Give up at harvest-time? (5) 16 Bounder gets a heavenly look when registere4 (9)
17 Example of culinary art? (3-6) 19 Drops the(players? (5)
21 This arachnid can lead you a dance (9) 22 'Into a — large and broad' (Milton) (5) 24 'Hands on hips, place!' (6) 25 Hepplewhite, maybe (8) 26 Not left in the eye of the beholder when up in arms (8) 27 'I have not — nor cried aloud,' Henley announced (6) DOWN 1 Loving declaration of political -faith (7) 2/What's wrong with going up to it? (5) 3 Whistle, flag, and lantern! (2, 5) 5 Parents of 13 (7) 6 In these one might expect to see the hand of Lenotre (9) 7 'With your Mama's — between them seated on two chairs like mad bulls' (Dickens) (7) 9 That nuts has got nothing inside it, how absurd! (10) 11 Getting thinner on top, bother! (10)
A first prize of a copy of Chambers'e Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a bunk token for one guinea will he awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on June 16. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,047, 99 Gower St., London, WCI,
Chainbe re's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords.
Solution on June 19
15 NO exit? Rot! It's very oppres- sive (9) 17 Have a shot at millinery (3-4) 18 The volume of travellers? (7) 19 Goldsmith the autobiographer? (7) 20 'Not — in heaven, though little noticed here' (Cowper) (7) 23 The girl takes a hundred to copy (5)
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