SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1075 Solution on February 19
ACROSS 1 This fussy worker blushes from side to side (6)
4 From Mars to me comes a little monkey! (8) 8 Ancient tribe of cricketers? (8) 10 Top-line appearance in the last rally (6)
12 Test a donkey indeed (5) 13 Stoics are involved with the philosopher (9) 14 Hoaxes by dud in the boat (5) 16 No doubt it has a very small bore (6-3) 17 Palindromic retaliation (3, 3, 3) 19 The total is increased when judges finally get to work (3, 2) 21 Sage queen of Halicarnassus (9) 22 Alright, a lecture is necessary for the little beast (5) 24 'The wrinkled sea beneath him ' (Tennyson) (6) Falstaff in the basket, the fop! (8) Whose rod is this among the trees? (8) It's just too bad! (6) DOWN Warms up on the subject of trials? (7) Engagements at the oasis? (5) Violent women from Ireland, sure (7) River's in the market, stocked with voles (7) The jewel hidden under the beds (9) The banker who can't stop adding up? (7) The compiler you might see get in a mist (10) What the platelayer wants at the cinema? (5-5) Get wind of old-fashioned snob- bery (4-5) 25 26 27 1 2 3 5 6 7 9 11 15
A first prize of a book token for one guinea and a second prize of a book token for fifteen sbilliugs will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on Feb. 16. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1075, 99 Goats. St., London, WCI.,
17 Canters—by nightmares? (7)
18 No stamp needed on formula for electricity (4, 3) 19 How the competitive journalist got the core out (7)
20 That's punctured ill (7) 23 An old-fashioned weeper to boot (5)
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