SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 931

ACROSS 1 Is a leg found in storage? (6) 4 Went pop with a pepper-mint drop (8).

10 Modern approach to ancient justice (7).

11 One oral introduction to an opera (7).

12 a rim and a hub, it seems (10).

13 Hen's songs of achievement? (4) 15 Ladies' profit-sharing stores? (3, 4)

17 '. . . and — clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear . . .' (Milton) (7).

19 In the manner of Elia of the light touch? (7) 21 Jewellery for an Ethiop (7).

23 What the Owl did to a small guitar (4).

24 Appropriate garment for the chap before the mast (10).

27 'Never dares the man put off the —' (Brown- ing) (7).

28 Son of Banquo can flee (7).

29 The object of the quota is to do it (8).

30 Willingness, indicated by a bray perhaps (6).

DOWN

1 She's clean as a steward (9).

2 Certainly not applicable to 'the caste of Vere de Vere' (7). „ 3 Taken at lectures at a charm school, perhaps, purely for decoration (5, 5).

5 Winged round Levi to make light (9).

6 A most curtailed prophet (4).

7 I'm thus in the nude—at Harwell? (7) 8 Rising artist in the affirmative takes time (5).

9 Silence me in network (4).

14 The objects of their scrutiny are often screened

(10).

16 Paddy on the war-path, but devoted (9).

18 Brute's age (anag.) (5-4).

20 He departs, to get the pickles? (7) 22 of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent and kind' (Rupert Brooke) (7). '

23 Although so terrific, he's really not wanted (5), 25 Minus a penny? (4) 26 An obliging fish (4).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on March 26 and addressed: Crossword No. 931,99 Gower St., London, WCI.

aambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.

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11•• • 111•111• So:utIon on March 29 Solution to No. 929 on page 359 The winners of Crossword No. 929 arc: Ma. F. MAXWELL, :8 First Avenue, Enfield, Mddx., and Mat. F. A. JAMES, 84 St. Bernard's Road. Olton, Warwickshire.