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THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 595 IA Book Token

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct sei,tion to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 29th.

ACROSS

1. These were not demonstrations by undisciplined Highlanders. (6, 5.) 7. He would have been more gram- matical if he had been better. (3.) 9. A dip's so tasty. (5.)

10. They should be struck as seldom as possible. (4, 5.) 11. An incident in the feline social round. (3, 4.)

12. Crime disguised in a motoring organisation. (7.) 15. Did she see anybody ? (4.

16. Smile and turn red. ■7.) 18. Kipling's butterfly did. (7.) 20. This cloak is all right in the race.

(7.) 23. Ten mice going cheap. (7.) 25. Unsorted mail. (4.) 26. "- Queen of Heaven. with cres- cent horns " (Milton). (7.) 29. Birds between the. sheets. (7.) 30. Against territorial expansion if little. (9.) 31. Wood for Longfellow's fire. (5.) 33. The Secretary of State seems to be in difficulties. (3.) 34. The eleven are followed up. (11.)

DOWN

1. Name of the unborn Negus. (3.) 2. Conjuring unpopular with the con- demned.. (4, 5.1 3. Make game of a spinster. (3, 4.) 4. " Faultily faultless, icily -, splen- didly null " (Tennyson). (7.) 5. One of several European places new to the Americans. (7.)

6. " It was, as I have seen it in his life, a - silvered " (Shakespeare). (5.)

7. It can be got in a fraction of the American's almighty dollar- t5.) 8. Bottom said he desired hi. more acquaintance. (11.) 11. Binders of loose leaves whon, work ends in smoke. (5, 6.

13. Foreign measure. (5.) 14. A suggestion of zodiacal pushfulness. (3.) 17. Uplift (5.) 19. " Have I not sat - Hill with a nymph noon my knees 1 " (Flecker). (9.' 21. No information in the Swiss place, only a girl. (3.) 22. Produced and gave in. (7.) 23. Puss with a bare waist (7.) 24. Ancient African kingdom. (7.) 27. Thanks to 1 down. (5.) 28. 'Smear, make plenty of it (5.) 32. Found in a three-masted ship (3.)