SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1085 Solution on April 29

ACROSS

1 It's cold in the retreating sea, he discovers; what a heel! (8) 5 Nothing exclusive about such millinery (6) 9 Soito voce comment on seeing crows' feet at the head of the table? (8) 10 Penny rivets (6)

12 There's been black work here! (6)

13 Have a look at these snips, they're entertaining (8) 15 A flinty exclamation (6, 1, 5) 18 Robert Paterson (3, 9)

23 What do we hear makes the play go? (8) 24 Where buried treasure was se- curely locked (6) 26 I reach for the sky, his crew might say (6) 27 The pleasure's mine if in rout (8)

28 Glosses over when offence is committed again (6)

29 The wine of the country (8)

DOWN

1 'Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses — in his riper age' (Dryden) (6) 2 A turning sphere (6) 3 Tract that's all feet (7)

4 Times and places for apparently (4) 6 Coalpit in upheaval (7) 7 What skilful make-up might do (8) 8 Reciprocal hospitality is not his line (8)

11 A mushroom, see, becomes a cherry (7)

14 A duck of a game with a donkey! (7) 16 The treasure at 24 (4, 4)

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17 Hopes for fa,vours may be expressed in cash! (8) 19 Talking of nothing on the allow- ance (7)

20 Hornblower's home-town? (7) 21 Club for swing fans? (6) 22 A tin in the piggery, and not much in it (6)

25 She perpetrates a fraud, a penny short (4) A first prize of a book token for one guinea and a second prize of a book token for fifteen shillings will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on Apr. 26. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1085. 99 Gower St., London, WC1.