"THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 174

IAB wk Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sende. cf the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zid. stamp. Solutions must 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 fol owing issue.]

ACROSS

For anglers' travelling? Pull yourself together! The ties may be real but I intervene. The word for today. Giraffe, zebra and deer all meet here. Just what not to do to save one's face.

"Princely counsel in his face yet shone, — though in ruin." (Milton.)

. Eyebright. . Tenth month monarch.

. I ac. is not made of these. - Little devil or so much French. . A transparent curative device. (4, 5.) Return of the cold ground occupant. They often make one feel so highly rated.

DOWN

. Scott was concerned with the lord

of them. . Girls will be boys. . Nor Tom, nor Harry . . . .

. But it isn't all spring. (4, 4.)

So I'm one in disguise.

.It would have been a godsend to

Mr. Micawber. (8, 5.)

Said to save its number. (1, 6, 2, 4.)

x5. This poem embodies hint.

17. Something dropped? I didn't hear it. 19. Singers give up forgetting their grammar. 21. A grisly name for a close-fitting garage. 22. They come and go. 25. It's all to one's credit.