SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1064
ACROSS 1 Can you spot her, cynic, in these displays? (12) 9 'My life is one dem'd horrid grind!' he announced (9) 10 The busker's motto enshrined in DOWN West London (5) • 1 Very doggy rosettes! (7) 11 Where to see the battles of Holly- 2 They may well cause themselves wood (6) in some pockets (5) 12 Very select coteries (8) ' 3 A tart riot in an Italian restaurant!
)3 'Like the night of cloudless climes (9) and -- skies' (Byron) (6) 4 It's doubled in salutation (4) 15 Observe carefully a hundred tak- 5 A sin in a nook ? What stuff! (8) ing a bath (8) 6 Decorated art in a map (5) 18 What the spclaeologist does? (8) 7 The old scholar turns nothing to 19 What and where 18 might dis- measure (7) cover; let it be a warning! (6) 8 Give a heavenly look ? (8) 21 Singing, they go over the top (8) 14 He's turned to coasting (8) 23 From Conrad, as luck would have 16 Give special instruction to the it (6) party boss? (9) 26 You must first give. the little wretch credit (5) 27 The boy with the faggots? (9) 28 Wire with the greatest facility (12)
A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a book token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the fire two correct solutions opened on Dec. I. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1064, 99 Gower St., London, WCI.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recomItended „tiff Crosswords.
Solution on Dec. 4
17 Be late at this? Cowper could never have been! (3-5) 18 It's cash on delivery with cold sweets; get it in writing (7) 20 In spite of being able to tootle, he sounds dumb (7) 22 'Like the sweet - which red- dens upon the topmost bough' (Rossetti) J5) 24 One so disposed for a tie (5) 25 Give us a song, Kitty! (4)
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