THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 738
14 Book Token for bite guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, July 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 21d. 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 following issue.)
Across
1. Room provided with honour to colour. (7.)
5. One of them was mortal. (7.)
9. Club in London with a scat in Scotland. (7.) 10, The serpent goes to a continent for her. (7.)
11. Straight choices of fruit at the green- grocer's, it seems. (5, 5.) 12. How short a feature might be. (4.) 13. A humble beast but golden in the classics. (3.) 14. Dead certainties were his speciality. (11.) 17. " I tell you hopeless grief is -." (E. B. Browning.) (11.) 19. The moving spirit of America. (3.) 20, Harsh half of fruit. (4.) 22. Gray mullet (anag.) (10.) 26. Grinling carved out a career. (7,)
27. She was a specialist on cereals. (7.)
28. Common fate of peas and trenches. (7.) 19. A miserable lot are we. (7.)
Down
1. A constable turns up about the bacon. (5.)
2. Other-wise people, might one say 7 (9.) 1. Royal house of France. Spain and Naples. (7.)
4. In this name I take the place of Cromarty. (5,) 1. Send a chit to the great cricketer. (5. 4.) 6. Tricky stuff in India. (4.)
7. He suggests the alternative to having a daughter. (5.)
8. Listens below oceans, very dangerous. (3, 6.) 13. It makes inroads on the butter ration in a hand to mouth process. (9.) 15. Chatted in opposite ways. (9.) 16. Described by Wilde as the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. (9.) 18. Grundy born on Monday. (7.) 21. Bears develop an edge. (5.) 23. The piled up wreckage of Sedan. (5.) 24. Distances behind the house or up aloft. (5.) 25. Kingsley had a sweet, little one. (4.)
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