SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 903

ACROSS 1 What to do with the manuscript of an old sermon? (6)

4 The red standard (8).

9 Swiss china? (6) 10 Funny, but the landing-stage is in a 3 bad way (8). 5 12 Mixed tins in fact are so fixed (8). 6 13 It's noised about him that he was a 7 sound man (6).

15 It's a poor return in Scotland for a croaker (4).

16 Equipment for flying fish? (5, 5) 19 They show what's left (10). 14 20 Find the dog (4). 17 23 Tusser silk in a homely make-up (6).

25 Nothing on fire—in a croquet match? (8) 19 27 'They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of---' (Wordsworth) (8). 21 28 The milliner's prize confection (3, 3). 22 29 Prince whose city suffered inflation (8). 24 30 Aromatic herb archaically claimed by 26 The bull-ring produces one who might be a cracksman (7).

One of these was made by 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' (9).

It's in a branch of fir on ice (6). Live up to a bad reputation (4). Refuse to prepare the bed? (4, 4) Mixed drink amid the woodwind (5).

Staines is the place for refreshing drinks (7).

The case is altered after a rising nobody (7).

Borrowed diseases? Take pulses! (7) The plant for the baseball player; he'l forget his troubles (9).

• — though in ruin' (Milton) (8).

Behaves like a bad penny it appears (5, 2).

Obviously can't be a pas seed (3-4). M. E. Boyd Incorporated (6).

In this way the house-god is warm (5).

As — as a painted Ship Upon a painted ocean' (Coleridge) (4).

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• Correction: In clue 14 Down or Crossword 902, ror 'Lancashire' read 'Cheshire.'

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. They wiil be awarded to th senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on September 11 and addressed: Crossword No 903.99 Gower St., London, WC1 Solution on September 14 Solution to No. 901 on page 304