THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 299 1.4 Book Token for
one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct ,,luzion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, December r2th. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and mwt bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a ltd. 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
I. "Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set
free his half-regained ." (Milton.) (8.) 5. The little company's got almost stuck. (6.) to. Job alternatively for a teacher. (5.) it. Pussy gets round the legislator for some cheese. (9.) 12. Answering the purpose. (9.) 13. You have it with dates. (5.) 14. " I have heard the singing It's love song to the morn." (Jeffreys.) (5.) 16. Tip, diner. (Anag.) (8.) 19. Developed when one has to " go like the wind." (8.) 21. We're given a long time to get practice. (5.) 25. Whistling fisherman from Lisbon. (5-) 26. Tennyson's back bat was. (9.) 28. Competent when capped,-or other- wise? (9.) 29. A town, or not? (5.) 30. It is fundamental in Jewry. (6.) 31. It may be adroitly disguised. (8.)
DOWN
t. There's the girl. (6.) 2. It takes the biscuit. (7.) 3. " Only the little Morgue." (Browning.) (5.) 4. Not necessarily a fragile growth, but should be handled with care. (6.) 6. Used for clocking in at the Portland Club? (9.) 7. Reehc. (5, 2.) 8. Not the aspect of the introvert. (8.) 9. Like the author of " Self-Help." (7.) 15. I'm prompt-and you? (9.) 17. Camouflage. (3, 5.) 18 The swan takes some cocoa. (3, 4.) zo. Sign of an extraction. (v.) 22. Got a bun on board? (7.) 23. Result of 18's activities. (6.) 24. " The ribs Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls." (Shakespeare.) (6.) 27. Flatten out the furrows? (5.)
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