THE "SPECTA I OR" CROSSWORD No. 06 IA Book Token

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first Correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, July 22nd, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street. London. W .C.I. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2)d. stamp. Solutions mkst 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 fo" y8 issue.!

Across

1. Vessels of learning, it seems. (12.) 9. Tender-hearted went first. (7.)

10. An unoriginal woman jounalist (4. 3.) 11. " There is such a thing as a man being too - to fight." (Wilson.) (5.) 13. He makes the dean relax. (9.) 14. They have a capital place to live in. (9.) 15. " By forms unseen their - is sung." (Collins.) (5.) 17. Rome's coded. (5.) 18. No drab mob comes back for a wea- pon. (9.) 20. Is he a sort of Terpsichorean plum- ber T (3. 6.) 22. It makes for keenness. (5.)

24. A deft painter, more so than some. (7.) 25. A herbaceous self-identification. (7.) 27. Can't Smith see 7 (Anag.) (12.)

Down

1. The man who brings on the dusk, per- haps. (9.)

2. Unwarlike marshal. (3.)

3. Dug badly having got in late. (7.)

4. Probably the swiftest travellers on sticks. (7.)

5. Shipwreck and Shaw disguised. (4, 3. 4.) 6. Stepped out. (5.)

7. The captain by another name might be expected to. (4.) 8. not generally appreciated. (8.) Its p °duct, according to Hamlet, is I made orders. (Anag.) (11.) 12. It circumscribes the company. (8.) 14.

" The - whistles from a garden 16. croft." (Keats.) (3, 6.)

Graduate with a card I follow. (7.)

Not the telephonist's spike evidently.

(7.)

It may be black or green. (5.)

21.

Belloc found one to Rome. (4.)

23.

Once a container of two dozen 26. songsters. (3.)