SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,007

23 An illustration of piling it on ? (4) pounds (5)

ACROSS 11 'Like to some — of stars we see Hung in the golden Galaxy' (Tennyson) (6)

4 Soldiers use it; they used to smoke it in reverse (4-4)

10 Thyme is mixed to make a tradi- tion (7) 11 The key will be found jf you excavate the thing almost entirely (7)

12 Finished with great care, but rather too fussily (10) 13 One simply can't find the girl here (4)

15 Breezy yarns (7)

17 One was quite pink to be so exuberant in bed! (7) 19 To write thus must absorb one's whole attention (7) 21 Mere sin might net you these

24 The tent-dweller should be out of bed here and ready for battle (10) 27 Tattered bustle? There will be a storm! (7)

28 Rows and rows and rows it featured (7)

29 A puny ice provides American chicken-feed (s) 30 The hangmitn who was bad in reverse! (6) DOWN 1 Cane cymbal (clashed); this will mystify you! (9) 2 Civic aspect of pent war (7) 3 Headgear for hot-heads? (7-3)

S The MSS of The Moving Finger evidently were (9)

6 Forceful units (4)

7 Inebriated call for salad-stuff from abroad? (7)

8 American youth's appreciative expensive luxuries (7) affirmative about a couple of

A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a hook token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on Sept. 9: Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,007, 99 Gower St., London, WCI.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended Joe Crosswords.

Solution on September 12

9 The case is altered (4)

14 Daylight-saving on Bredon (6-4) 16 I'm soon about to inquire at this city (9) 18 Bury in a little place in Norfolk? Not so (9) 20 Or how to rob the meter? (7) 22 Classically inconsolable (7) 23 Where to come out at a summit conference? (2, 3) 25 Belloc took it to Rome (4)

26 Graduate in the offing looks very young! (4) 111111111111111111 4 111111111111111111

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