SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 841

DOWN Sketch often done entirely in red (9)■ 'Winter was not unkind because ' (Bridges) (7).

The rodent swallows most (10). 'Time... the - in beauty's brow' (Shakespeare) (9).

It might appropriately have been Mr. Slope's racket (4).

In this case it was the vehicle not the horse that was docked (7).

Boxers hand in glove with them (5). Alternative title for a Wilkie Collins novel (4). Blotted and decapitated in Browning (10). Promenades for crabs (9).

Here one might take the lead in dress (9).

'Do you remember an Inn, -7' (Bel loc) (7).

Is it a matter of pronunciation or is it a religious cleavage? (7)

Evidently the politician didn't miss the vehicle (5) Thus a postscript in a letter to Cer- berus (4).

'Where he stands the - Fear in a terrible form' (Browning) (4). 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 14 16 18 20 22 23 25 '26 ACROSS 1 Combinations like this call for con- fidence (6).

4 Wet whet (8).

10 The article taken to the pawnbroker is indefinite (7).

11 Medico breaks the regulations (7). 12 For the use of the more exclusive burner of gas? (4, 6) 13 Kiss not to miss (4).

15 Shape is the making of it (7).

17 Tried to write (7).

19 Not, as might be thought, a street of

riparians (7).

21 It's neck or nothing with this sauce otherwise (7).

23 Poet extracted from 19 (4).

24 The nationality of a Somerset town Is altered by the artichoke (5, 5).

27 Quite ferocious, it seems, the twin causes of a noise in the street (7).

28 Places of business cut short by basis of argument (7).

29 Locatiori of Neptune's bronchitis, perhaps (3-5).

30 Let me enter the return of song (6).

Two prizes will be awarded; a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one dolma. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on July 12 and addressed: Crossword No. 841, 99 Gower St., London, WCI.

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