Prize Crossword

A prize of £1-1-0 is offered for the first correct entry opened at noon on Friday 17th September (or if there are no correct solutions, for the most nearly correct). Mail entries to Salient, Box 196, Wellington, clearly marked "Crossword" on the outside. Addressed entries may also be handed in at the Students' Association office.

Cryptic Crossword No. 7F14

Across: 1. What's afoot? A boat, of course, 8. Albert with an amateur support get the palace. 9. Cutting a masculine side-piece. 10. The officer who will upset employees. 11. The whole body of Christians around Chaldean city. 13. Decent if otherwise tainted. 16. Softens bad sausages. 19. Used to be a waggish structure owned by a Byzantine provincial governor. 22. Caravan has no can, only a bucket belonging to a feudal tenant. 24. Grab a customer seen holding a counting frame. 25. In six gte. 26. They are banished out of a silly island.

Down: 2. It would be a help to know the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet. 3. It goes on the hair after washing. 4. Loiter with an inanimate object in the upper house of the Norwegian Parliament. 5. This man is a cracker. 6. This is enough to make you sick. 7. Small amount of sweets. 12. In the air as with a Javanese poison tree. 14. There's the body of an aeroplane to melt first. 15. After tea our intention is to go for an outing. 17. Saints with spots. 18. You and the Rajah's wile have to get together with the Muse of Astronomy. 20 Is a Cadillac a riot even with mites in it? 21. Can he cut a sloping trough? 23. Eagerly desirous of help around five