THE "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 638

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the firs; correct Solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 21st, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2]d. stomp. Solutions MUSS be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

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1. Bird which sat on the chair. (7.)

5. A suitable try-on. (7.)

9. One who tries to avoid three in favour of two. (7, 8.)

10. Whack in a south-westerly direction. (5.) 11. They occur in three of the year's last four months. (5, 4:) 12. Yearning acutely provoked, it seems, by Mandalay. (9.) 14. He went to pot. (5.)

15. Demanded of U.S. by a Prime Minister. (5.)

16. A man of parts, no doubt. (3. 6.) 18. A Frenchman of course in school. (9.) 21. It's alimentary, my dear Watson. (5.) 22. Legislation insisting on a serious mien ? (3, 3, 2, 7.) 23. Returned radio ? Something of a disappointment. (7.) 24. He takes a car tour and gets wrecked. (7.)

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1. This romantic American character would not have made a prison. (7.)

2. Does he help cadets to get gazetted (10, • 5.) 3. Fatal fevers. (4, 5.)

4. Two pronouns combined for Melville. (5.) S, The heat of revolution is probably due to him. (9.)

cardinal's 6. Timothy or the unnamed puts to sea. (5.)

7. String's in tea-tin (anag.) (15.) 8. So a girl changes her make-up. 47.)

13. A sapling not a felled tree. (6, 3.) 14. For those who can't stand washing ? (9.)

15. It's implied to us by him. (7.) 17. Character in which the broadcaster excels the hen. (7.) 19. Meredith's heroine should have -been familiar with the puzzles. (5.) 20. " As it isn't, it ain't. That's - (Carroll!. (5.)