Prize Crossword
A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 29 March. Address solutions: Crossword 1473, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1 Across 1 Such a piece of baggage should properly bear tattoos (3-5) 5 Work it out in depth (6) 9 How poetical are things Italian (8) 10 'Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the — of happy chance' (Tenny, son) (6) 12 Having been let after a quiet sign should make one so contented (7) 13 Her land requires renovation for an esseni tially manual worker (7) 14 Credulously accept one result of monetary gamble. Why, they're enough to give one butterflies in the stomach! (7-5) 17 Infernal apparitions. Makes one abandon comfortable beliefs (12) 22 Festal dressing in the Navy is really very workmanlike (7) 23 'He above the rest. In shape and proudly eminent' (Milton) (7) 24 Helical way of rising in church, perhaps? (6) 6 25 Asteroid dear to France is a stiff worker (8) 26 Weapon backfires, obtain or piece (6) 7 27 Stones in the round (8) Down 1 Erin's device in the vessel provides musical uplifts (6) 2 Persuasion was her work (6) 3 Hamlet's toothy heron (7) 4 How to behave after a course at Sheridan's
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11 school? (12) Small national lake provides plant to make you see red (7) The same put up in lower case following Juno to be blazoned (8) 8 'Gold is for the — silver for the maid' (Kipling) (8) A strong love this, makes meteoric appear' ance (8-4) 15 Wood vans should be dismantled for the right to a benefice (8) 16 'Take a pew' is this action's message (8) 18 The sear, the yellow, perhaps? (7) 19 Prohibit banjo-play. That's the remedy (7) 20 Her cue is to outwit at cards (6) 21 'All whom war, —, age. agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain' (Donne) (6) Solution and winner on 3 April
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