SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 905

ACROSS

1 Exercise, for the Gunners? (6) 4 Not on strike, this poet (8).

10 William's deeply in debt, we hear (7). 11 Get equipped for war? Rather! With bands! (7) 12 'What shelter to grow is ours? What leisure to grow wise?' (Arnold) 13 he Glasgow Horse (10).

16 Give the old thunderer a kiss on the chest! (6) 17 It only goes to show (7). 20 A little quarrel with no matter which, it's pretty transparent (7).

21 Highly decorated bottle (6). 24 Comrade Cit is naturally this (10).

25 A weird accompaniment for a Scot (4). 27 Basic ingredient of smooth hand cream (4, 3).

29 'We never meant to be — in the humdrum way of other people' (Bronte)

30 Yo). u'll find the music where Serena dear put it (8). 31 The cat was to have been so beautiful with a penny (6).

DOWN

I What the classical bookworm did to get out? (8)

2 'As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile', for example (11).

3 Ecclesiastical handicap (4).

5 He's a got a Ford near Southampton (8). 6 Surprising news in the magazines (10). 7 'Vastness! and —1 and Memories of Eld!' (Poe) (3)

8 Outwitted—by cook? (6)

9 Lest I should get tough (5).

14 Might the perpetrator of 2 have pronounced this allergical? (11)

15 Identical cash portions for William and Mary (4-1-5).

18 Longbourn was upon Mr. Collins (8).

19 'I — an Ode, and it turned to a Sonnet' (Dobson) (8).

22 Small advertisement leads to one false step even for the skilled (6). 23 In this case the abstainer doesn't take the cake (5).

26 'But they outdid the sparkling waves in —' (Wordsworth) (4). 28 Mrs. Mopp's deity (3).

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Solution on September 28 Solution to No. 903 on page 368

The winners of Crossword No. 903 ore: Miss F. M. BROWN, 31 St. Mark's • Crescent, Newport, Mon., and Mit. DOUGLAS &wisps, The Mount, Rillington. Mallon, Yorks.