SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 900

ACROSS 1 Box? Thanks! But only where the tough survive (6).

4 Hardy timely retaliations (8). 8 I declare one hoop (8).

10 Coral island contributes largely to a Perthshire area (6).

12 A faddist in the movement? (5) 13 Invulnerable appearance of clean hail (9).

14 It's not necessarily drawn by a bad-

tempered horse (5).

16 Abe square dancing in the ballet! (9) 17 Prominent architectural feature of 'Seaview'? (3-6) 19 An exclusive club, apparently (5).

21 Improve? It's impossible for me to do so (9).

22 It's to be found in 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (5).

24 Brutus was one, Antony wasn't (6).

25 This takes a rise out of a big gun! (8i 26 The parson's share of the bacon (5-3). 27 'When Love with unconfined wings within my gates' (Lovelace) (6).

DOWN Building sites in Scotland taken as a matter of course (7).

Are not the Scots found on the sand? (5) The final calling of Solomon Pross (7).

It is the indeed, but abroad (7).

'There is but one step from the — to the horrible' (Doyle) (9).

No speaking part for this Shakespearian character? (7).

Home and away, in fact (4, 3, 3).

Bird served in a shaving-mug? (10)

Weigh-in late, said Dr. Spooner (3, 2 4).

'A — woman was I,' Poll Pineapple announced (7).

Dante's illustrator is I like this (7). Bishop of disaster (7).

Absent from a Greek diary (7). She gets well in the old prison (5). 2 3 6

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Two prizes will be awarded: a copy oi the De Luxe edition ot Chambers's Twentieth Century Dichonars and a book token for one guima. They will be awarded to the senders af the first two correct solution opened after noon on August 21 and addressed: Crossword No. 900, 99 Gower St., London, WC!

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version. is recommended for Crosswordb.

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Solution on August 24 Solution to No 898 on page 216 sTuhrereyw W winners of Crossword No. 895 are: Mits. PEPLOE, North Park Moffat, Dumfriesshire. and MRS. L. KERR, 6 Forest Crescent, *eed,