SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1053
ACROSS 1 Beauty treatment for a calif? (6) 4 It's prefaced by an oath (8) 10 Little credit in a trussed goose for a miser (7) 11 Learning leads to a garland for the maiden (7) 12 She. gave orders that Grimes should sweep out thc crater of Finn (10) 13 Pirate announces himself shortly and ungrammatically (4) 15 A tropic fruit can he picked here (7) 17 'Nymph, in thy -- Be all my sins remembered' (Shakespeare) (7) 19 Sign, please! (7) ,,21 Hanger-on who's robviously ad- dicted to the bath (7) 23 'Come with -- bent and with emptying of quivers' (Swinburne) ) whole entrance (7) might well! (9) to land (7) a bet (7) 29 The stronghold defines the use of 22 Cooked to the third degree? (7) a hairpin (8) 23 A short one at the bar (5) 30 How the Romans treated the 15th 25 Retreat from no approval (4) and 13th? (6) 26 Salt rent (4) DOWN 1 Isn't a face likely to? (9) 2 Winged messenger (7) 3 Turn each to pray (10) 5 Wings on skiffs can lead to upheavals (9) 6 Mend an oath (4) 7 Broken bone round a chimney for Lily (7) 8 The sort of chap who's never at home! (5) 9 She shows her love (4) A first prize of a copy or 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 Sept. 15. Address solutions: Crossword No. 1053, 99 Gower St,, London WC1.
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Solution on September 18
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