THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 322 [A Book Token for one
guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, May 22nd. Envelopes should be received hot later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 23d. 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. A tar leaps, appropriately, in the gymnasium. (9.) 5. A golfer's hair-do. (5.) 8. Strange tale. (5.) 9. They strike and strike again. (9.)' r. Passport and take this off the dress- ing-table. (9.) 12. The same again. (5.) 13. This place takes the biscuit.
14. March 31st, 1945. (6, 3.) 18. Skeletons' hide-outs. (to.) 21. " But propt on beds of amaranth and -." (Tennyson.) (4.) • 23. The solution should be perfectly clear. (s.) 25. A friend will provide a ladder. (9.) 27. Miss Coram's changed role. (9.) 28. Dogmatic palindrome. (5.) 29. " A world too wide for his shrunk " (Shakespeare.) (5.) 30. They enable one to toe the line, as it were. (9.) DOWN 1. An old stage favourite often drunk.
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2. In which, perhaps, the poet would have been satisfied to find a kiss. (6, 3.) 3. One loses a little of the Yule log in chopping it up. (6.) 4. Scene of political tea. (7.) 5. Expires after husks. (S.) 6. The watch should be on it, and another watch if a little longer. (5-) 7. Dry voices. (Anag.) (9.)
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o. Model stances. (5.) 3. There should be enough of these to go round. (9.) 15. Help! (3.) 16. Too menial. (Anag.) (9.) 57. Comic complement of seeing Homer nod? (8.) 19. In cosmopolitan places one sees several at ,them. (5.)
20. Someone seems to tell Samuel he is he in Japan. (7.) 22. Fellow it is in the insect world. (6.) 24. Don't stop here for ever! (5.)
26. Captain Cuttle must have accumu- lated a great number. (5.)
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