SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1057

ACROSS 29 1 The little bull? (6)

4 Help returns to father and child (8)

9 Country relations of the critic? (6)

10 No more migraine in the spring

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12 Say when! (4,4) •

13 Confused serial from the Near 2 East (6) 3 15 A woolly tale (4) 16 Chief of police might get rattled (10) 19 I'm so stingy, he might say (10)

20 'The legend of an — hour' (Chesterton) (4) 23 Yellow victory in a fluid, fluid state (6) 25 Novice in the making of a tart (4-4)

27 Halt in vain, clearly (8) 28 Saturday night baby-sitter up 17

North? (6) 18 A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth C a book token for one guinea will be awarded to the opened on Oct. 13. Address solutions: Crossword

Clumbers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

5 6 7 8 11 14 30 Need a tot to go off with a bang (8) Distinguished botanist about to inquire for bottles (6) DOWN

Hence, one must walk—for a Ionic? (7)-

Skilful on estates, but superior (9) 'Or emptied some dull — to the drains' (Keats) (6) One law for Holly? (4) Pale star of wrestling (8) No bath for an old royal visitor!

(5) Grief in a Homeric lapse (7)

Where are the strays? 0, in

dump (7) Whom's the letter from? It's Peel! (7) He tears up from the river (9) It fires the spilit (8)

entury Dictionary and a second prize of senders of the first two correct solutions No. 1057, 99 Gower St., London, WC1.

is recommended for Crosswords.

Solution on Oct. 16 19 Duffer set the pace, though blindfolded (7)

21 Ducks who put their foot right into it! (7) 22 Dropping an 'h' here might get one a coral island (6) . 24 'Here at the quiet — of the world' (Tennyson) (5) 26 Something too much of this? (4)