tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 344 IA 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, October 23rd. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and muss bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a sid. 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 wmner will be published in the following issue.]
ACROSS
I. What's in pans? Art is. (9.) 5. The salt's upstairs. (5.)
8. A cricket bonus. (5.) 9. A ring game. (9.) 11. Tale I must inspire. (9.) 12. " Speak, bands, for me," he said. (5.) 13. Nothing at all,-if you play the game. (4.) 14. Dun horses. (Anag.) (9.) 18. They may be sung or said. (9.) 21. I twice get the bird. (4-) 23. They get collared. (5.) 25. Tell I'm one. (Anag.) (9.) 27. Capita. cipher in a can. (9.) z8. " I had my good wit out of the ' Hundred Merry -.' " (Shakes- peare.) (5.) 29. Where to run for the doctor? (5.) 30. Purses are slightly stretched in making them. (9-)
DOWN
I. Defensive excuses. (5.) 2. Does it ever err in getting into shape? (to.) 3. He wasn't so fly as he thought. (6.)
4. Soothe. (7.)
5. They go by themselves, but not alone. (8.)
6. Tumbles to little bits of wood. (5.) 7- Natural refrigerators wisely avoided. (9-)
10. Porraceous emblems. (5.) 13. It seems the appropriate vessel for Ben Jonson. (6, 3.) 15. Born in France. (3.) 16. Sometimes recovered, but not by a 2. (9.) 17. You'll find him in the ranks of death. (8) 29. This castle isn't in Yorkshire. (5.) 20. This batsman didn't, however, play with a golf-dub. (7.) 22. Eggs in 5 down. (6.) 24. Corporation lining. (5.) 26. One of these seems to have been enough for Cowper. (5.)
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