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DOWN: 1 Announces the successful mechanic after repairs ? (7). 2 French sea-dog with docked curly tail (9). 3 Keats found the nightingale's plaintive (6). 5 Small change for blood-money, a penny

short (4). 6 The big twirls and epochs wax and wane' (Henley) (8). 7 Short month and French at that (5). 8 Trollope's diamonds (7). 11 A card with broken toes (7). 14 Gastric epitomes (7). 17 They get brief instructions (9). 18 Heraldically rampant (2, 2, 4).

19 The colonel was anything but talkative (7). 21 'Our littlt. have. their day.' (Tennyson) (7). 22 Wan am I, but can stick it (6). 24 Fifty under the river in feathers (5). 26 Is it sharp enough to sum up ? (4).

The solution will be published on January 14

The winners of Spectator Crossword No. 813 are as follows: First prize to the RT. &Ey. T. A. Score. Cleaves, France Lynch. Stroud, Gloucestershire. and second prize to Miss Koos, Eden Place. Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland.

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 813. • ACROSS: 1 Bidder. 4 Griffons. 8 Sack-race. 10 Angela. 12 Easel. 13 Moonlisht. 14 Laces. 16. Evergreen. 17 Antipodes. 19 Jonah. 21 Swallowed. 22 Whale, 24 Mosses. 2$ Assonant. 26 Disaster. 27 Decamp.

DOWN: 1 Boswell. 2 Ducks. 3 Enrolls. 5 Fine leg. 6 Overgreen. 7 Shastort. 9 Camperdown. 11 Sobasides. 15 Cutlasses. 17 Assumed. 18 Pellets. 19 Jawbone.

20 Heeltap. 23 Abana.

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