SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 966

ACROSS

1 Violet, thy mate's a jewel (8).

5 Those chaps at the Inns of Court are decidedly countyl- (6) 9 Measure of the chiropodist's advice (8).

10 Song about a seaman from a far country (6).

12 Stir up a bumper (5).

13 Not quite the coach for Cinderella, even if a stage one (5-4).

14 Theses cannot be changed into music, or can they? (12)

18 Whereby to get a make-up? (12)

21 Meet train where it is appropriate it should end (.9).

23 And that farthest bottle labelled (Brown- ing) (5).

24 very common style at the barber's (4.2).

25 Run gasping round the front at Folkestone, it's very nice! (8) 26 Chider makes a long-drawn-out affair (6).

27 Setbacks, encountered about their work by poets possibly? (8)

DOWN

1 A noisy crossing is all I can manage (6).

2 Early travel book (6).

3 As luck will have it, it's often a cast-iron case! (9) 4 Affixed in a florid way no doubt to a famous • judgment (8, 4).

6 A step towards concord (5).

7 Bestiary (anag.) (8).

8 A gigman perhaps, setter of 13 perhaps! (8) 11 Unexpected preliminary to a policeman's change into civvies (3, 2, 3, 4).

15 Acquit, for no longer a single speed is necessary

• (9).

16 Does it mean that the snake was treated with whisky? (8) 17 Rome as it might appear (8).

19 'Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred --'

• • (Milton) (6).

20 Stager's new role is not pleasing (6).

22 Antiseptic meeting of the goddess with the hero coming up (5).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Lose edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century DictiogarY and • book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened at noon on November 26 and addressed: Crossword No. 966, 99 Gower St., London, WC1

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

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Solution on November 29 Solution to No. 964 on page 659 The winners of Crossword No. 964 arc: Miss Lucy STANTON. 32 Kenilworth Square. Dublin, and MRS. A. THYNNE, Penstowe, Cornwall.