SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 798
Two prizes are awarded each week - a copy of the De
Luxe edition of Chambers's wentieth Cen- tury Dictionary and a book token for one 'y utn e a. These will be awaided to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on Tuesday week, September 14, and addressed: Crossword 798, 99 Gower St., London, IV.C.1. Solution must be on the form here printed.The solution and the names of the winners will be published in the following issue.
ACROSS: 1 Is his what a scratch &al does ? (4, 4). 5 Softly fastened (6). 9 Finish in trousers (8). .10 It sounds as if the ass likes his hay liquid (6). 12 Am I so deep in the affair ? (7). 13 A ragman Is puzzled (7). 14 The poetry of Donne, for example (12). 17 They're after the jewels in opera (5, 7). 22 AU the best wanted here (7). 23 Is this what the Frenchman means by en suite ? (2, 5). 24 I've graduated, Daniel, abroad (6). 25 ' Let not - mock their useful toil' (Gray) (8). 26 Not necessarily an old gas-bag ! (6). 27 Elemental, my dear solver ! (8).
DOWN: 1 Mrs. Elton's favourite trees 7 (6). 2 The umbrella-man in Trafalgar Square 7 (6). 3 Is it roseate in hue ? (3, 4). 4 Mother, the rug is over the confused unprofessional (13). 6 Fool has got mixed in the bath (7). 7 ' The sounding - Haunted me like a passion' ('Wordsworth) (8). 8 How Alice's adventures were enacted ? (8). 11 Was Beau Nash regarded as one of this nearly extinct species ? (12).
15 Doubly striking (8), 16 Hoop-la, for example ? (4, 4). 18 Es- capade among the casks (7). 19 Three in actual fact for re-examination (7). 20 They're shot on the river (6). 21 I've left the liar for this fruit (6).
Solution will be published on September 17.
The prize winners of Spectator Crossword No. 796 ere as follows: First Drill to MR. H. M PALMER. 36 Church Road. Roby. Liverpool, and second prize to Mils. B. M. C. WIOOTMAN, 79 St. Albans Road, Edinburgh 9.
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 796.
ACROSS: 1 Muffin. 4 Calliope. 10 Chinon. 11 Camelot. 12 Each. 13 Heliotrope.
16 Ermine. 17 Setters. 20 General. 21 Normal. 24 Metatarsal. 25 Gnus. 27 Zambesi. 29 Pitcher. 50 Nineties. 31 Chopin.
Demist: 1 Mackerel 2 Pair comment. 3 Idle. 5 Anchises. 6 Limitation. 7 Owl. Entree. 9 Antics. 14 Oarsmanship. IS Investment. 18 Hair-line. 19 Plastron. 22 Amazon. 23 Camps. 26 Itch. 28 Men.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary New Version. is recommended for Crosswords
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