SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,046

ACROSS Graduate surrounded by hoods I10)

6 Fictional Sergeant who might have needed it hand, too, on occasion (4)

10 One dog ticket, please! (5) II Weakness that Robert Burns might have displayed? (9)

I,- A capital fellow! (8)

13 And all that beauty, all that -- e'er gave' (Gray) (6) Is A capacious kiss (4)

16 Whence the horse smelled) the battle'? 14) 17 A breezy goodbye to the old lawve0NmquiteM

20 Slide into comfortable scats by the sound of it (5) Fear, said Dryden, was the last of them (4)

‘-2- Very meagre marriage portions (4) Z4 Music specially composed for the Muses'? 16)

26 Ointment vs lb bandage supplied (8)

29 Where, for the most part, to gel cash ? (2, 3,4) 30 He has all the luck! (5) 31 You can lose a pound in comfort (4)

32 Lawrence's gate-crasher (10)

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1 Robin's song'? (5)

2 Having a decided taste for liquor served thus? (6, 3) 3 Just the author for the lending library (6) 4 Grey hair deterrent? (6-4) 5 It's cheap in the City (4) 7 'Boded leg of mutton with the trimmings' (Dickens) (5)

8 lie'S in the Scottish dances, rather eccentrically dressed (9) 9 The end in France has to be (7) 14 Saint gets quite a turn after spotted fish (10) A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second Prise of book token for one guinea will he awarded to the senders of the first IWO correct solutions 447'et1 on June 9. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,046, 99 Gower Sr. London WC I.

Chontbers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords.

Solution on June 12

IS Showing an underskirt in the dance (9)

18 Solos need re-arrangement and tidying up (5, 4) 19 They're absolute smashers! (7) 23 Came in about the pictures (6) 25 Merriman gets up for music (5) 27 It must belong to them (5) 28 The exclusive deserts of the brave'? (4)