SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,041
ACROSS
1 Noble examples of the illumin- ator's art? (8)
5 Mum's gone back to the labora- tory for a remedy (6)
9 Downing Street is so very UI (5, 3)
10 Thus return about an ecclesiastic in a fly (6) 12 You look wan, friend. with a vulgar hat (6)
13 Look well at the .protagonist (8) 15 Deviation that might be agreeable to the judge (5, 7)
18 It's not all in a ceremony (12) 23 Progressive boy seen at the end of a stormy loch (8) 24 There's no sense in it when the lighthouse lamp's invisible (6) 26 I'm somewhat partial to a pent- house (4-2) 27 Conversely dolichocephalous (8) 28 One might expect it to retain an impression (6) 29 These cows seem to have been left out in the cold (8) DOWN 1 Does driving a sulky make one? (6) 2 It's slap up when Father gets a rise (6) 3 The Rev. in confusion is dished by another (7) 4 'When the grey-hooded — like a sad votarist' (Milton) (4) 6 He's made a pile (7) 7 It takes a sound beating, but there's a snare to it (4.4) 8 Smell rodents? (4-4) 11 Chorus boys for outdoor shows (3-4) 14 Nice for slithy toves (7) 16 The kind of letter that has no end (8) 17 Not much chance for the poor emmet with a donkey on top of him (8)
A first pro 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 first two correct solutions opened on May 5. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,041, 99 Gower St., London. WC1•
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords. Solution on May 8 19 Hail, Stanley, in a manner of speaking (7) 20.`Ask where's the north. . . . In Scotland, at the —' (Pope) (7) 21 The trophy, love, seel (6) 22 'Yet three filled Zodiacs had he been the — jewel' (Jonson) (6) 25 Foster is back (4)
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