" THE SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 268

Br ZENo to .prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solutionof this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes will be opened before noon on Tuesday. Solution should be on the form appearing below. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue. Envelopes containing solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot be accepted.]

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DOWN 2. Material of musical origin. 3. Thii kind of dragon is harmless. ACROSS

I. A frightened dinner-food ? 7 and 3o. An upright appoint- ment.

8. This kind of clock hasn't necessarily 'told the time for three generations.

14. Missile of fruitful results ?

16. See 19.

17. Kind of flowered silk. 18. rev. A pronunciation hard to shake off !

19 with 16. A great navigator. zo. Ice can rot (snag.). 21. Title prefixed to Carthusian monks.

22. Vowels.

23. Take out of an enclosure. 25. Evidently the bald are not devout about more than life.

26. Ham creates a wide differ- ence of feeling. 27. Concerning oneself about. 29. See 5. 3o. See 7 across. 31. Takes the place previously filled by. - 32 and 4. Shelter that you have to part with.

5. . . . scene of all, That ends (29) strange event- ful history." 6. Curt refusal to recognise an acquaintance saves time.

7. Trunk without a lid.

8. Goes prancing in triumph. 9. The part of a garment Europe's getting into. 1o. A pointer for teachers. 1. Song of lamentation. 12. This case has its points. 13. " The sundry contempla- tion of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous . . ."

15. A good place to launch the ship of state upon. 20. " And .moody madness laughing wild, . . . severest woe."

23. Dwell persistently upon. 24. This leaf is an early potato. 28. Are with this pinna.