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ACROSS 1 Hu Ty up at the back there I (6). 4 ' The - of neighbouring eyes' (Milton) (8). 10 The whole lot, but green it might be (7). 11 t sounds like help for the greenhorn (7). 12 'Ark to Louts Armstrong 1 (3, 7). 13 ' - on thy sandals, 0 thou most fleet' (Swin- burne) (4). 15 'Always takes the weight in Lancashire (7). 17 What Rowdier did, having disposed of much of the punctuation (7). 19 It's sticky in the dregs (7). 21 Maturer in a mistake (7). 23 ' That which drew from out the boundless deep turns again -' (Tennyson) (4).

24 Obviously the chairman's in an honourable position (5, 5). 27 The Kennel Club register ? (7). 28 I'm surrounded by elegance, oddly enough (7). 29 The old timekeeper's lost his balance among the light craft (8). 30 Victorian patron of the modern cafeteria ? (6).

DOWN: 1 ' Yes, thank you,' the groom might answer from prison (9). 2 Something gratis from the radio shop ? (3, 4). 3 It seems like a record of the flow of cadence (10). 5 Severe yet out of the past (9).

6 How often does it occur in a concert ? (4). 7 I put on a new make-up (7). 8 A deer is so equipped when altered (5). 9 Tapped, au it were, by Whitman (4). 14 Little work with the paid player and I'm mixed with the rub (10). 16 Make a mistake in battle and it's plum right (9). 18 Just what one would-expect a nervous nose to display (9). 20 Though concerned with a horse the gambler is but slightly altered (7). 22 Go in France to divide the track (7). 23 It doesn't take all the door to shall out (5). 25 Star of Spanish poetry (4). 26 It gets up to disclose 18 (4).

Solution will be published on September 10

The winners of Spectator Crossword No. 795 are as follows: First prize to MR. A. GARETII JAMES, 63 Heath Park Avenue, Cardiff, and second prize to MR. A. GORDON TAYLOR, 51 North End House, London, W.14.

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 795.

*moss: 1 Milk and Honey. 8 Automatic. 9 Solid. 1l Insist. 12 Prudence.

14 Gallivants. 16 Stud. 18 Ohms. 19 Sacramento. 21 Diabolic. 22 Rag-tag.

25 Reeve, 26 Increment. 27 Melodramatic.

DOWN: I Mites. 2 Lambskin. 3 Arts. 4 Decorators. 5 On side. 6 Ellington.

7 linking powder. 10 Dreadnoughts. 13 Carabinicr. 15 Lambarene. 17 immanent. 20 Toledo. 23 Theic. 24 Scum.

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