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SOLUTION ON JANUARY 2nd The winner of Crossword No. 143 is Mrs. j. A. C. COPSON, 17o, Manchester Road, Accrington, Lancashire. ACROSS x. Intimate aspect of a pugilist

(3 words) (4, 2, 5).

7. Obviously the rake goes the pace (3).

9. The companionship of chess (5).

to. Sailor's tailor? (9).

I1. This fictional castle was not a

lunatic asylum (7). 12. The purposes of camping (7).

15. Little boy good at rounders (4). 16. Despite his name, he's no lieabed (7). • 18. Brown them'off more briefly (7).

2o. Spanish_(crossword) chestnut!

(7).

23. Sltain cazef filly the love potion '(7).

25. NItedveoer sni:tanfidowwin the Never- Never

One grid in this department (7).

29. A letter frequently itself (7). 3o. Referee's order to unruly

player on the rink? (3 words) 3, 3, 3). 31. " I will - her statue in pure gold " (Shakespeare) (5).

33. When the stag had drunk his fill (3).

34. She had a brazen employer (x I). DOWN x. Not in Noah's sandwich (3).

2. Duty caller's welcome dis- covery (3 words) (3, 2, 4).

3. Just look, the little creature's soft in the middle (7).

4. Moorland misanthrope (7).

5. But he's in the team all the same (7).

6. Expel cat in confusion (5). 7. Shakespearean duchess (5). 8. This is not to imply that operatic vocalists are in choirs I (1I) x. Its owner is not found in the Tweed (II). 13. "Haste thee, - and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity " (Milton) (5).

14. Possibly instruction's entrance and exit (3). 17. It's no good leaving England (5). " 19. The railwayman's artistic dis- tinction (3 words) (2, 3, 4).

21. " And I'd like to roll to Some day before I'm old " (Kip g) (3)..

22. Harder up (7).

23. How Enos could announce his male parentage (7). 24. Nine for the underworld! (7). 27. Clear out the weapon (5). 28. Name shared by prophet and laureate (5).

32. The German printers use bad ones (3).