SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 921

ACROSS.

1 They are not likely to be walking to a wake! (13)

9 No more equestrian exercise astride? (9) 10 Rivet attention on the fountain (5).

11 Charlotte's the girl for this (5).

12 Rouse the combines into activity? (9) 13 Nothing flabby in the saint (7).

15 It's the girl I epitomise, by gum! (7)

17 Is it in order for the OC to be behind the clock?

(7)

19 'Oh Fame—if I e'er took delight in thy

—' (Byron) (7).

21 One play is to be produced here (9).

23 After morning the freeze-up is announced; you'll need a hood! (5) 24 With my cloak I'm to be seen, says the raccoon

(5).

25 Nineteen finds superlative expression in this (9).

26 They present a stiff front to the world (7, 6).

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22 23 DOWN

The housing experts are concerned here about a

toss (9).

London was Spenser's most kindly one (5).

Square gardens across the Atlantic (7): Pugs win this when reorganised (7).

Like a bag in the left luggage office? (5, 4) Poetically in the way (5).

Tosti's all tied up with the painter (6).

Hamlet's insect pest (5).

Just a straightforward quarrel (9).

Is 'When it was Dark' his favourite reading? (9) Cash in' at mealtimes for the birds on the

collective farm? (6)

See a cut in these diamonds? (7) They've gone to ground or to be ground? (7) 'A man severe he was, and — to view' (Gold-

smith) (5), Tales for the littlest? (5)

The morning's at one for the fiddler! (5) 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 will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened alter noon on January 15 and addressed: Crossword No. 921, 99 Gower St., London, WC:11.

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