SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,030
ACROSS 1 Aid in learning to hold the tongue? (4-4) 5 Jolly tar for a period? (6) 9 Faint in civil defence (5-3) 10 Depart but might have been quartered in confusion (6) 12 Thy ear may become unrefined (6) 13 He's a frivolous objector, though something of a gallant (8) 15 Appear to indicate what is valu- able in a tug-of-war teaml (5, 2, 5) 18 Knocks down the drinks? (7, 5) 23 Let's awa' tae the heather, awkward (8) 24 Sea-bed's in a state of upheaval (6) 26 '1 — round my tresses; said the brook (6) 27 There's a Scot on the move in Turkey (8) 28 Absent the egg-stealer would be no doubt in such circumstances (3. 3) 29 This bird decidedly has points (8) DOWN
1 How the new knight might appear on the films? (6)
2 Its in a theme agreeable if some- what thin (6) 3 Busy creature fluttering round broken husk for nothing (7) 4 Fifty and no longer in the game (4) 6 Numa probably found one of these quite enough (7)
7 It's high in a wise man (8)
8 Their pen is of jade (8) 11 Spoil the whole thing ? Well, not quite (7) 14 'And — full of the linnet's wings' (Yeats) (7) 16 Long writhing in pain this scaly creature (8)
A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a book token for one guinea willbe awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on Feb. 17. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1,030, 99 Gower St.. London, WC1.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for CroSswords.
Solution on February 20 17 Survey the promised land? What about my feet? (8)
19 Cold in the nose is perhaps (7) 20 'A livelier — twinkles in the grass' (Tennyson) (7) 21 Pack fashion in Switzerland (6) 22 The bird's almost replete (6) 25 'Nor on the shaggy top of high' (Milton) (4)
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