THE " SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 720
IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, March lOth. addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.I. Envelopes must be received not later than first post Shot day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. Solutions must be on tie form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.{
Across
1. A tourist but not for pleasure. (10.)
6. Chicago has no sense of the past. (4.) (7.) 10. If is, so to speak, the underground. (7) 11. Retuned. (Anag.) (7.) 12. " Champagne certainly gives one werry gentlemanly -" (Surtees.) (5.) 13. Location of that tall eleven. (9.) 14. Psychologist insular across the Atlantic. (5.) 16. He pictured John Gilpin. (9.) 18. Hagar and Ishmael. (9.) 19. Pledged for tomorrow. (5.) 21. Christmas peartree lodger. (9.) 24. Vessel of winter sports gear very loud. (5.) 25. The perm goes wrong in tea. (7.) 26. Relevant. (7.) 27. A burning association. (4.) 28. This might be Skye but isn't. (4, 2, 4.)
Down
1. Even-handed, no doubt, but simply frozen. (7.) 2. They take a stand against the rainy day. (9.) 3. All right in small numbers when cornered. (5.) 4. A place of some agreement. (5.) 5. lie practised a little jungle pedicure. (9.) 7. The girl. the time and I. (5.) 8. Suitable name or a gentleman. (7.1 9. Chuckles of a black man in a ship. (8.) 15. Robespierre was this Incorruptible. (3, 5.) 16. Scald a hen. (Anag.) (9.) 17. In music it is indispensable. (9.) 18. " That high - where kingly Death Keeps his pale court." (Shelley.) (7.) 20. One gets after In the three funda- mentals of education. (7.) 22. " Today the - and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon.' (Housman.) (5.) 23. Bird of ins and outs in rhyme. (5.) 24. Fires up. (5.)
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