SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,034 Solution on March 20

ACROSS

II Result of investigation about the drink? (6)

4 Fashionable tint of Helen's hair

(8) ' •

9 The gentleman's gentleman leads at a ball (6) 10 Sporting character out of bed but doesn't quite make it (6-2)

12 Carlyle's -Philistines must have had bad eyesight too! (8)

13 Cap suitable to seniors (6) 15 Seasonally associated with snows by Swinburne (4) 16 Jugs exclusively for the elderly? (10) 19 As amenable a chap as you can find (4, 6)

20 In time a wise mean may emerge (4) 23 Seizes more than a gross of, serpents (6)

25 Hold out in the jetty (8) 27 Was Lydia LahgUish perhaps short of time? (8) 28 Sarah and a friend get a snack (6)

29 Apparently a short rejoinder (3, 2, 3)

30 10 has to be before clearing this (6) DOWN 1 Storms about Virginia bring ruins (7)

2 Ply lagoon from many sides (9)

3 Change sides to sunbathe (6) 5 It's just in the way our dog runs (4) 6 No creeds can be blamed for this (8) 7 Mither as an ancient Roman (5) 8 Such a nymph was Selima (7)

11 To box at the riding school is tough (7) 14 Many turn up in the opening of the dictionary (7)

17 Should have no knowledge of Leftish activities (5, 4) • 18 Fire-weed perhaps? (8)

A first prize of a copy of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary and a second prizo of . PRIZEWINNERS a book token for one guinea Will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions Miss B. Richardson, 3 Stanley Place. opened on March 17. Address solutions: Crossword No.1,034,99 Gower St., London, WCI.. Chester, and Miss Susie Boxer, 42 Gree,t- Clwriffzers's Twentieth Century Dictionary is recommended for Crosswords. wick Park Street, S.E.10. 19 It enabled St. George to take a whole town in hand (7)

21 'Demands the — of a mind and heart' (Wordsworth) (7) 22 Location of a sort of poetic rest- house (6)

24 Tosca's tied in the stakes (5) 26 A stony welcome (4)