SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 993

ACROSS 1 How to preserve a literary traveller finally (6).

4 Let's have a round of cards played gradually (8). 9 Otherwise a friend gives the word (6).

10 Constance is a tremendous weight! (6).

12 A little French and I'm on; I ask you (8). 13 In face of this he's promised (6).

15 Wind-up of the dance (4).

16 The postman's uniform? (4, 2, 4)

19 Token presented on a 25th wed- ding anniversary as a matter of course (6, 4). 20 Can you beat it? (4)

23 What's necessarily afoot on the march (6).

25 I'm in an appropriate environ- ment here, 18 might say (8).

A book of saws (8).

I'll tell you more about outsize, gloomy though it is (6). Diary tip (anag.) (8).

The homely apple (6).

DOWN He might succeed with nothing in getting on the stage (7).

Make a good map of it (9). Flowers offered with a lisp by Eve's predecessor (6).

Plunder the castle (4). Fact is, if I may say it, they're mean fellows (8).

Where they don't care a straw, or do they? (5) Here one would find Mr. Knighfley at home (7).

Our Colonel's showing the flag (7).

Substitute who's in league (5-2). 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 S 6 7 8 11 14

A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prize of a book token for one guinea will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened on June 3. Address solutions: Crossword No. 993, 99 Gower St., London, WC1

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords. Solution on June 6

17 Eager to have elevenses before acknowledging debts (9).

18 Never red, is he? (8)

19 Not used, one hopes, to urge on his greyhound! (7) 21 More grievous - than a hermit's fast' (Keats) (7).

22 The classic winner, though junior, is definitely 'U' (6). 24 Nothing in the post, I submit (5). 26 Help to make a stake (4).

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