SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 992

ACROSS 1 Escape as depicted by Turner, for example? (8) 5 Suffering seems to be involved for this heathen (6) 9 No thoroughbred this appetiser (8)

10 So to be found twinkling among the stars (6) 12 Tale-telling brothers have a for- bidding sound (5) 13 Hebe or Ganymede, departing from Wembley? (3-6)

14 Man of letters? (12)

18 Curlers' contribution to the foun- dation of that Tunnel? (7-5)

21 Was Rhoda induced to write?

(9) 23 Is this door-keeper addicted to mah-jongg? (5) 24 Make no bones about it? Quite the reverse (6)

25 Did Cleopatra's baby display such roughness? (8) 26 A species of stroke makes a sensation (6) 27 Deals ace (anag.) (8)

DOWN 1 Landlord's method of restraining a tenant? (6)

2 I reach for my gun! (6)

3 Puss took a morning run in the boat (9)

4 Where to find Pa in lyric pill (12) 6 Home whence an effort by Dibdin might have come (5)

7 No flights from these rails! (8) 8 Mimulus changes sides from furs (4-4) 11 They are exemplified in the Vicar of Bray (12)

15 0 not here a flower may bloom at eve (9) A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a hook token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on May 27. Address solutions: Crossword No. 992, 99 Gower St., London, WC1.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords.

Solution on May 30

16 Blackleg's debts are blue (8)

17 Bird under the automobile? What a circus! (8) 19 Cibber's heroine evidently had a liver (6) 20 No grey protection against ero- sion (6) 22 'All the — from the heights, your own, Love!' (Browning) (5)

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