20 MAY 1949, Page 33

"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 530

(A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, May 31st. 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. Realm changed in changed change. (11.) 7. A dolorous malady not lacking crcdit. (3.) 9. Patentee unready to drive. (5.) 10. A vehicle when hired is another.

11. " A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner I " (Dickens). (7.)

12. Shakespeare's weird relations. (7.) 15. Ruskin wrote this last. (4.) 16. It is much the same without Pro- portional Representation. (7.) 18. Where the Cockney footpad makes his demand ? (7.) 20. Not wound up for an accident, evidently. (3, 4.) 23. Effeminate fellow about to make • visit. (7.) 25. Grecian egoism. (4.) 26. A chance required by sardines. (7.) 29. Play found in many plays. (7.) 30. This may be encountered in tidying. (SO 31. Is in the midst of 33 reversed. (5.) 33. Beyond the missing bed. (3.)

34. Whom do we find in these? 0 Simon Green. (11.)

DOWN

1. It wasn't exactly thrown to the wolves. (3.) 2. Initially it might be the Prime Minister. (9.) 3. The player who spends a lot of time in the pavilion? (4, 3.)

4. "A good time was bad by sIST" but not in France apparently. 17.

5. A sign of the Plantagenet!. (7.) 6. Sir Huh, the parson. (5.) 7. Where in France there are net results of industry. (5.) 8. Grimalkin as prize, that's a dreadful mishap 1 (11.) 11. Displayed by your pet, Iris. (11.) 13. Found in any companion I confide in. (5.) 14. "Oh that this -, -, solid flesh would melt" (Shakespeare). (3.) 17. A man of mystery. (S.) 19. Loaned in vain with nothing to follow. (9.) 21. It sounds as if the debt-collector had finished. (3.) 22. Such masonry is little more than a mug. (7.) 23. Author of "Peace, It's Wonderful." (7.) 24. Nemoral (snag.). (7.) 27. Hardy heath. (5.) 28. Mingled without a doctor. (5.) 32. No, no poet. (3.)