16 FEBRUARY 1951, Page 30

THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 614

(A Book Token for one gumea will be awarded to she sender of the first correct solution of slut week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, February 27th. Envelopes must be received Not later than first post that day end muss bear she word Crossword," the NUMBER of the put:le 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 runuer cull be published in the blicrwint Issue.]

ACROSS

1. Doge is ululant, the outcome of undivided feet. (13.) 10. These religious fanatics might skate, but not on ice. (7.)

11. "Allah created the - (Kipling). (7.)

12. This maid evidently was no snake- charmer. (4.) 13. Even the greediest must so behave In slumber. (4, 6.) 15. Much prized by the argumentative. (4, 4.) 16. His saw was drowned by coughing.

(6.) IS. Smart hie Miltonk elves. (6.) 20. The puzzle's ancestor seems a bad- tempered, Mans pest. (S.) 23. Attends night-school (10.) 24. Royal tea-drinker. (4.) 26. Fruit of taking the cake, perhaps.

(7.) 27. A critical point. (7.) 26. Common phrase applicable to the sugar ration. (5. 3, 5.)

DOWN

2. Result of wrecking Salerno. (7.) 3. In the matter of arboriculture I am above the law. (4.) 4. Part of an Dwaine peregrination. (S.) 5. Salutes. (6-) 6. "In all forms of government the people is the true - • (Burke). (10.)

7. Muscles of Ccrbcrus. perhaps. (7.) 6. This sor is more likely to receive

orders than to take them. (1. 5.) 9. Lack of consistency at the butcher's cash-desk ? (4, 3. 6.) 14. Only the habitual smoker himself act refers to his pipe. (5, 5.) 17. To be it may mean the price of a ring. (I.) 19. Evidently Oberon encouraged such conduct. (7.) 21. It means profit for the last. (7.) 22. Tosca's &AMOK cat hides h. (6.) 25. Tom Bowling was the darling of ' ours. (4.)