SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 912

ACROSS

1 Some can point to this make-up (12). 9 This abstainer can spoil a snack (9).

tu Their queen rush'd to battle, fought and died (5), It This month the Italian can drop in (6). 12 Have a look at the pulses; they're false 8), I) Flutings, but not by the orchestra (6). lg

Hats for the C.I.D.? Stuff! (8)

IN A - the echo of that voice' (Coleridge) (8).

19 All is not gold that glisters here (6).

21

-rums in the miners' bands? (8)

23 The salesman's boast? Wipe it out (6).

26 That's pretty thin stuff (5).

27 Rev. Mus. Bac. (snag.) (9).

28

Rage might be the result of such mechanical skill (4-8).

DOWN

1 Winter sport for a low dog on the heather? (7) 2 . a paradox Which comforts while it -' (Browning) (5).

3 Mr. Harrington 1 shake off in an old- fashioned way (9).

4 I'm in a sad way at the port (4).

5 The man in digs for the board (8).

6 Alternatively 1 get on a hunter (5).

7 'Behold the child among his new-born -' (Wordsworth) (7).

So large 1 get confused in the East (8). 14 Scream, love, and get married! (8) 16 Refrain? Should a nursery-rhyme hero? (9) 17 Flatter a European in drink (8).

18 Mother, it's to the south-east you'll find the painter (7).

20 Feature that's no adornment on the dresser (4, 3).

22 It's greasy on the edge (5).

24 Water-storage plants, see the point? (5) 25 Superlative coy bend (4).

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Prizes will he awarded: a copy of the Do Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth CenturylDietionary hook token for one guinea. They will he awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions nod after noon on November 13 and addressed: Crossword No. 912, 99 Gower St., London, WCI

ambers' Twentieth Century Dictionary, New Version, is recommended for Crosswords.