25 The price of Piggy-wig's ring (8).

26 This hydrocarbon isn't quite what Wilkie Collins wrote (6).

27 Girls with nothing in them (8). The rodent's evidently been sun- bathing (6).

Dice in bottles; don't shake) (6). Lost it might be in a plaything (7). Evermore? (12).

One sort of little dog sang for his tea (7).

Does it fittingly display military decorations? (3-5).

Get your hair cut, misery! (8). The City of Brotherly Love (12). Shortly in the same place the wager's laid, Peter (8).

Headquarters, perhaps, of the laun- dry industry in New York (8). Bunting can fly even better than a flag (7).

It's a story, see? (7).

A copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a hook token for one Vainest will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on March 1 and addressed: Crossword 822, 99 Gower St., London, W.C.1.

C'hambers'sTwentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords

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