SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 859

ACROSS 1 Paired in spectacles and never alone by the sea (6).

4 Norse god takes the finest outsize suitable for a hot climate! (8) 10 It seems to imply a reduction in the Navy Estimates (4, 3).

11 He opens Moby Dick (7).

12 Such is Daddy's novel appearance (4-6).

13 Does the head here come a cropper? (4)

ip Parry's stimulants (7).

17 Salute to the left, obviously unsteady (7).

19 It pens many a note (7).

21 Maria became Mrs. Rushworth (7).

23 To boast of one's wardrobe (4).

24 Game that a reluctant monster refused to play (10). 27 Nothing barred on the shelf (7). (7).

29 . . . is so bracing! (8) (5) • 30 No doubt you'll find him in Cairo, sir, 25 One of the chosen race (4). 22 American kind of guy in the Services DOWN 1 Investor loses his head and embezzles (9).

2 Would it pass for a gunner? (7) 3 The clock-watcher's eye, dramatically described (10).

5 Should one be too fly to enter this parlour? (6-3)

6 'Still left an in the sense' (Jonson) (4).

7 Wherein one might expect to get browned oil (7).

8 Philosopher's truncated farewell (5).

9 Party at the Stock Exchange14).

14 Why did the buglers quarrel at the card-table? (10) 16 Seat's mine, though broken (9).

18 Who makes them? Is it dependants?

(9) •

20 The bird takes a long time to get here (7).

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 after noon on November IS and addressed: Crossword No. 859, 99 Cower St., London, WO.

Chanthers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, Nem Version, 4> recommended for Crosswords.