"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 161 IA Book Token for one

guinea veil be awarded to the sender of the first correct of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. lopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the a "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zid. stamp. Solutions muss the form telow, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution I tke name of the winner will be published in the following Wsue.)

ACROSS

In the soup? That's fishy.

0 let me sit in this tree! (Or under

Associated with Cockpen..

"When I consider how my light is —." (Milton.)

Descriptive of Elgar's Variations? Dow under arms in fiction.

Are they keen, say? Sure. Holding, but dropping a weight in

Scotland.

His love-song enlivened many an Edoardian drawing-room.

In London alternative is the stimu- lating draught one might get from a beset.

It can't be denied he's a man's man. She returns with credit.

Sleeping-bags? Merit in plenty (anag.).

DOWN

There natives slumber?

It's always wet round here.

lust a chance you'll get this right. The soul of wit. All lit up. Hazardous horse-wear. Commands. Misery me! Very nearly. This may be met in Elia. 16. Is this what neighing is?

17. " Simaetha calls on And hears the wild dogs at the gate." (Wilde.)

18. Giddy Scot.

to. Having it in grey matter is the making of this land.

20. Numerical sartorial level. 22. Ma.SSa'S resurrection.

23. "There's a funny little you're supposed to wash your face in." (T. S. Eliot.)