SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,049
ACROSS 1 And so the field changed, van- quished (8) 5 Last word on bad housing (6) 9 Whence came a royal mare (8) 10 Keep out the revolutionary (6) 12 Gets rid of the outhouses (5) 13 Such flaps when an Archdeacon tails off (9) 14 Opportunity for a soprano, big prize offered (6, 6) 18 One of these provided a vehicle for *Mr. Pickwick (12) 21 Give Pluto a good character? Not likely! (9) 23 Shade of the bosses (5) 24 'He hath — the fateful light- ning of his terrible swift sword' (Julia Howe) (6) 25 Its companion is minute though larger (4, 4) 26 See me going back in the act (6) 27 It's lively for the French among the donkeys (8) DOWN 1 Ichthyology is, of very aloof (6) 2 Skipjack seems to hesitate about being tardy (6) 3 A hundred on the way to the Air Ministry building (9) 4 Caps for artillery bosses? (6-6) 6 'This is a heart the Queen on' (Browning) (5) 7 Perhaps they are making an earth-probe? (8) 8 Avoid fateful days in a sbort journey (8) 11 No bracelet is to be seen in these observances (12) 15 He sounds a flowery sort of author (9) 16 What a bind for me, as an old- fashioned baby might say l (8) course, and
A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a hook token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first two corr ect solutions opened on June 30. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,049, 99 Gower St., London WCI,
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Solution on July 3
17 Caroline, who became Mrs. Robert Moore (8) 19 Taxi in a vague fashion is magical (6)
20 How March 15, for example, appeared? (6) 22 Pull the rope through about nightfall (5)
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