SPECTATOR CROS SWORD No. 908

ACROSS

1 She burned and loved and sung (6).

4 Advertising chaps should be expert in interplanetary travel (8).

9 Hesitant yes, after all (6).

10 Downy little beds they should be (8).

12 Chuck us a sweet! (8)

13 It's Susan helping with the packing (6).

15 The seal is enraged (4).

16 Sing, varlet! (anag.) (10) 19 'Methought she purg'd the air of —' (Shakespeare) (10).

20 Flower that's prone to wilt (4). 23 Nobody in? Stupendous! (3-3)

25 Terms, see, are like this in USA (8).

27 The mother of euphemism? (8) 28 Mother, linger, a wine appears (6).

29 It's ridiculous the way in which a caul grows (8).

30 'That unhoped — that men call age' (Brooke) (6). DOWN

1 He had no deep sense of justice (7).

2 Front line defences in the RAMC? (9, 3 Not quite how Keats addressed the fellow (6).

5 Do you see the workman hidden here? Nope I (4) 6 One form of potted biography (8).

7 Domains of browned-off birds (5).

8 Stimulating invitation to sit (4-3).

11 Speculation in 10? (7) 14 Get support for a gamble about rabbii- skin (7).

17 So a comfortable patient might resem. ble a poetic organist (3, 2, 4).

18 How the committee's discussions are reported (8).

19 Holst's music of the spheres? (7) 21 Clothes that take a long time to reach the dustman (7).

22 Three-headed Titan of darkness (6). 24 Here one may get buttonholed (5). 26 Lois gets squeezed (4).

Two prizes will be awarded: a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionar) and a book token for one guinea. They will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on October 16 and addressed: Crossword No. 908, 99 Gower St., London, WC1

Chanthers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords. Solution on October 19 Solution to No. 906 on page 474

The winners of Crossword 906 are: Mas. MARSHALL, Manse of Aberdalgie, Perth, and MR. A. B. PEARCE, 2 Granville Road, Barnet. Herts.