SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 895

ACROSS

1 Here's a chance to mob a lot (7).

5 Is it held, therefore, that eleven are incapable? (7)

9 Bound together, the league showed the way (7).

10 The fairy has deserted the gasteropods (7).

11 Homer acts a name-part here in the old province (10).

12 'A — in darkness, let it grow' (Tennyson) (4).

13 Back and forth goes the signal (3).

14 Bonus? Mail it l (anag.) (11)

17 The town for physical jerks, or shell- fish? (11)

19 'Where the apple reddens, never —' (Browning) (3).

20 Sweet that needs a lot of sugar (4). 22 Carrollian feathered mallets (10),

26 1 separate a chap from his relatives; very small of me (7).

27 Spades are naturally trumps with them (7).

28 The Pleiades if seven (7).

29 A small vest, in violet? (7)

DOWN

1 Colourful objects of the squeeze? (5)

2 Evidently doesn't make much of it (9).

3 Oranges for the monastery (7).

4 Man the tree municipally (5).

5 An urban yes-man, apparently (4-5).

6 A famous choir (4).

7 The girl for the campanologist (5).

8 Acquired by selling the right chair (4, 5).

13 American's occasional appreciative comment upon The Thunderer? (9)

15 A shilling to nothing on the course— for birdies (9).

16 Bustles for learners anxious to better themselves (9).

18 Conducted by the beckoning finger, perhaps (7).

21 Smoking combines (5).

23 She gets up to come down the same way (5).

24 Donkey in the boat, very piquant (5).

25 Terrier with a bunch of keys (4).

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 July 17 and addressed: Crossword No. 895, 99 Gower St., London, WC1

;Umbers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.

Solution on July 20 Solution to No 893 on page 47