THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 499 [A Book Token for
one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crosstaSrd to be opened after noon on Tuesday week October 26th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and Must bear the word "Crossword," 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. He took a toss from Pegasus. (11.) 9. Tfiumph. (5.) 10. One would reasonably expect a bold- all to be. (9.) 11. How to save fuel in the coming months. (9.) 12. Does her husband treat her rough ? (5.) 13. From which, according to Kipling, plaster saints are unlikely to emerge. (8.) 15. Off the deep end but no ocean. (6.) 17. Stevenson found the world full of a number. (6.) 19. Captain's, on the authority of Dickens, are always a moist and jovial sort of viand. (8.)
23. Whence the drops Fe collected for: gossip. (5.)
24. King of Kent. (9.) 26. Reckon. (9.) 27. Expire about nine. (5.)
28. " The castled crag of Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine " (Byron). (11.)
DOWN
1. Cry for fat ? (7.) 2. It always is than one thinks. (5.) 3. If these were granted for achieve- ment the donkey would be a high scorer. (8.) 4. A way of escape. (6.) 5. No choir if turned inside out (9.) 6. I've got into a disturbed volcano. (7.) 7. He's in the breach. (6.) 8. Here one gets fed up before the finish. (6.) 14. Not a sugar mixture ; how could it be ? (9.)
16. The usual number of boles. (8.) 17. Old dugout who specialised in words. (6.)
18. Unsound. (7.) 20. For those who need take steps to get up in the cold. (3, 4.) 21. The camp-follower seems more crafty. (6.) 22. Phrase-maker. (6.) 25. Abode of science. (5.)
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