31 JULY 1947, Page 27

" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 436

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to he opened after noon on Tuesday week August 12th. 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 he on the form below, and none can he accepted from the U.S.A. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

ACROSS

I. Golfing progress in an old song. (5, 3, 4.)

9. No doorkeeper, evidently. (7.) 10. Not what the drill-sergeant means by " As you were " (7.) 11. Society, but not the best people, in Sicily. (5.) 13. Cecil and I (anag.). (9.) 14. " Freedom Blowy broadens down From - to " (Tennyson). (9.) 15. " Was it something said . . .? " (5.) 17. An example of 3 shared by myself and the physician. (5.) 18. Oysters should be. (9.) 20. No editor of the " Outlook." (9.) 22. Palmist's employees? (5.) 24. This old vessel never put to sea. (7.) 25. One doesn't see a good runner doing this. (7.) 27. Girl at dinner (anag.). (12.) DOWN

I. A demon at Bridge? (9.)

2. Great Anna's occasional beverage. (3.) 3. Proverbially one is urged not to look at it. (3, 4.) 4. Spencer but not Spenser. (7.) 5. Another tavern in the town also in song. (4, 3, 4.) 6. One can't have galloped without it. (5.) 7. The pilgrim, by the sound of it, hasn't taken his medicine. (4.) 8. Shanty across the Channel? (8.) 12. Lascelles vou may have re d before this. (11.) 14. Fare deserved by the brave, u it were. (8.)

16. This process, when divided suggests what the radio comics are expected to do. (9.) 18. For the unoriginal designer. (7.) 19. When a cow is before this an engine is behind it. (7.)

21. We ten in the intermediate stage. (5.) 23. Starters' pudding. (4.) 26. No slumber sound in Elsinore. (3.)