" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 141

ACROSS r. Least confused in a tree (9).

5. Foreign office grog for discus- sion (5). • 8. Hertfordshire saint (5).

9. This seems to be at the other extreme from an even keel (2 words) (5, 4).

" So fond are - Fallen into wrath divine, As their own ruin on themselves to invite " (Milton) (2 words) (6, 3).

12. The airman is once confused out of a chameleon (5).

13. Forest watchman (4).

14. One's train seems to have met with an accident (9).

18. The Japanese seem deter- mined to have a place in it (2 words) (6, 3)

21. Stone-crop might be a suit- able name for this (4).

23. She wrote The Heir of Red- clyffe (5).

25. " Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the jewel of their souls " (Shakespeare) (9).

27. Begun (9).

z8. Mrs. Hawkins (5).

29. A slice of golden suet pud-. ding (5).

3o. Bits and pieces (9).

DOWN 5. In the afternoon Sarah makes a song (5).

2. Hard work, arranging the debts of American labour (9.

3. It goes afoot in I ac. (6).

4. Unfit you chaps, in archaic astrological parlance (2 words) (3, 4).

5. " His brow was sad; his eve beneath Flashed like a from its sheath " (Long- fellow) (8),

6. Old cold (5).

7. The wheat between (9).

50. They are anything but stable (5).

13. Contracted number of rebel- lion (2 words) (5, 4). 15. This is found in the mulberry tree (3).

16. 0 it's a lion; all by itself! (9),

17. Companion of lyrical evening perarnbulation (8). 19. Ultra-optimistic horse-wear (5).

20. Old African province (7). 22. The Pilgrim's Progress was

(6).

24. Standard of hardness (5). 26. Sebastian, a celebrated trans-

latOr (5).