Prize Crossword

No. 1472 DAEDALUS

A prize of £3.15 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 22 March. Address solutions: Crossword 1472, The Spec- tator', 99 Gower Street, London WCI

Closing date of No 1464 is 12 March. Solution and winner next week,

Across 1 The hot star-season, in which Diogenes would have felt at ease (3-4)

5 Orlando was one of those involved in aid plan (7)

9 Mary's so put out by quagmire condition (7) 10 Mercurial prose could be productive of such little burrowers (7) 11 Linguistically confused as wondrous gar- dens? (10) 12 Miss Woodhouse is entitled to a book (4) 13 Drink it back, old friend! (3) 14 Nine grams round some salad plant can prove embarrassing (11) 17 AD to come ashore with hesitant noises dis- closing a ladies' man (11) 19 At six to one it's way out! (3) 20 Futurist confounded by old Irish (4) 22 Is conned as there is no harmony in it,,(9) .

26 Resulted profitably having been given the golden handshake (4, 3) 27 Carry on with poetic licence, in a church- yard, perhaps? (7) 28 The twenty-four-hour wartime (7) 29 A beast of a bridge joining the tree-people acquiesces (7) Down 1 Doctor with order to make civil (5) 2 The patriot who took the biscuit (9) 3 I. . . nor good Compensate bad in man, him so' (Browning) (7) 4 Do continue to talk about that old jacket (5) 5 Might one take it to be rustic Mr Giles's profession? (3, 6)

6 Run along 5f yards in a circuitous sort of way (4)

7 'Thus have I had thee, as a — doth flatter, In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter' (Shakespeare) (5)

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8 Lost again; it comes of dwelling on those snows of yesteryear! (9)

13 A source of heat at table, in which Nash found a source of inspiration? (6-3) 15 Compare daily without delay to reveal the imago of the bait (6, 3)

16 '0! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heavens of —' (Henry V) (9)

18 Gives up to Caesar; that's what it boils down to (7) 21 The wasp inexorably displays the sharp bit (5) 23 Bachelor girl in the queen's place (5) 24 7 changes but a little for those that arc not odd at all (5) 25 'Till he heard as the roar of a rain-fed the roar of the Milky Way' (Kipling) (4) Solution and winner on 27 March