SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1080
ACROSS 1 Shc provided a raven's perch (6) 4 Hospitality that may cure babe (8) 9 Commercially speaking, it's about an offspring (6) 10 Sounds as if ten-year-olds lack moral fibre! (8) 12 When the coughing begins? (8) 13 American tourist's intention to survey the capital briefly? (6) 15 She'll come back, to have dinner
16 Th) e teams have obviously been put on the water-wagon (10)
19 Place for the schoolboy with authority in France? (10) 20 'He smelleth the battle — of (Job) (4) 23 The fairv's here: quiet, please! (6) 25 Roundabouts? (8) 27 A capital fellow (8) 28 You'll find rue at a row business (6). 29 The object of pressing business (8) 30 But flowers abound here too, surely? (6) DOWN 1 Not a very superior symbol, it sounds. Swinish, in fact (7) 2 However, certainly not applicable to Solomon! (9) 3 The morning's our own for love- makings (6) 5 Rustically inquired how one was dismissed (4) 6 Sword-like flourish? (8) 7 There's a catch in it (5) 8 No longer minds and holds out (7) 11 Scots cry derision for these partners (7) 14 No doubt the model finds it itself (7) in. 17 'When — begin to peer' (Shakespeare) (9)
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. 22. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1080, 99 Cower St., London, WCI.
Solution on March 25
18 Mrs. Robert Moore, née — (8)
19 Father begged when bobbing up and down (7) 21 Keep back there! (7) 22 Speaker in France is very enter- taining, is rude, too! (6) 24 'Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of — rhyme' (Poe) (5) 26 Wasn't Browning afraid of getting stung by this kiss? (4)
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