SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,028

Solution on February 6

I How to get juice from a coconut 29 A willing performer? (8) tree? (8) 5 Fashionable robe for the woman DOWN 23 'Mt, Love, could you and I with 10 Wound a sailor with a beetle (6) 12 It's lust about all the colours of

13 There's a lot more effrontery in 15 Encountered everybody at the old 18 A 'gamble on a rough passage?

24 Repair that might save the Muses?

26 Artist tist is very much at home when 27 Artists who should know the

9 Brief hesitation and I get going (8)

barrister? (6) an unfinished garment (8)

(5, 3, 4)

the rainbow (6) place, there's the point (12) it comes to fruit (6)

ropes (8) broken rest (8)

ACROSS 28 Ring the changes in tinges (6) Him —' (Fitzgerald) (8) 11 You're on fire, apparently, though 14 Marchers' emblems look rather 16 After a risky investment one has 2 Spineless 1 should be; is it clear?

3 How the dotted-line expert makes

4 In the soup! (4) 6 '1 will vanquish not my — but 7 Its inhabitants ought to be experts 8 Taxi awards in floor shows (8) I Mud spattered round the doctor tier the record (6)

his demand in Berkshire? (7) my judges' (Newman) (7) in packing (8) fireproof! (7) forbidding (7) )

17 How tired the members of such a committee must get . . . (8) 19 but not so, apparently, this old soldier ! (7) 20 As I can't appear in a devilish disguise (7) 21 The brokers are in! (6) 22 Cooling drink for the spirited huntsnaan? (6)

25 'Hie rough male kiss'? (4)

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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 thomenders of the first two correct solutions opened on Feb. 3. Address solutions: Crossword No. 10211, 99 Gower St., London, WCI.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dktionaty is recommended for Crosswords.