SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 876

ACROSS

I How William ioes to work in the scrum; see the point? (8 5 Overscrupulous with a smack (6). 9 City ruse to get safe (8). 19 Bowyer notoriously concealed in New

York (6).

12 Hero the carriage gets moved on; where's Val? (6) 13 Goodbye for a girl in blue (8). 15 It takes token rents to produce this place (5-2-5). 18 Not the kind of speechifying one would normally associate with Boston (5, 7). 23 It's on the verge of flight (8). 24 Rage follows the viper's appearance (6). 26 Dividing fifty-fifty, I get one more, ho says (6). 27 My steed and 1 are able to form a defence for the drawbridge (8).

28 You'll find him in a strait indeed (6).

29 There's distinction with no bucking in this West Country place (8).

DOWN

1 Tribes disguise themselves with pig- ment (6).

2 He lit the taper for Brutus (6).

3 To char I get in a stew (7).

4 Abstainer in a pair of spectacles? (4) 6 Ho marshals the Redcaps (7).

7 Mrs. Aldwinkle's bookworm of a protege (8). 8 Old sailors who obviously keep their heads above water! (8)

11 How the electrician announces the object of his visit? (7) 14 Sin on the upgrade in burlesque (7).

16 The dirty girl! (8) 17 You can't do this more than once, you rat (8). 19 Sap rising round upturned obstacles (7). 20 'Queen rose of the — garden of girls' (Tennyson) (7). 21 Small portrait of mother and child by Kneller (6). 22 Stonily he provided an aubade in Thebes (6).

25 'Whose horrid image doth unfix my (Shakespeare) (4).

`,0 Prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary and I book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions °netted after noon on March 6 and addressed: Crossword No. 876, 99 Gower St., London, WCI

Chanthers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.

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