21 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 17

THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 341 to - Beak Token for

one guinea will be awarded to the tender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 2nd. Envelopes should 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.]

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t. Walton's best exhibit? Probably not. (8.)

5. ' She walks in beauty like the night, Of cloudless - and starry skies " (Byron). (6.) 9. I ac., perhaps, contributes to their horoscopes. (8.) to. Coward's heroine gets her man and

takes him to her heart. (6.)

z. Lose crib fashioned in basket work.

(8.) Ia. $usannah's advocate. (6.) 14. Sea changes. (3, 3, 4.) 18. A nicer' gamp. (Anag.) (to.) • 22. Five cents. (6.) 23. " Stem of the voice of God.' (Wordsworth.) (8.) 24. Permeated. (6.)

25. All the phrenologist reads in the papers? (8.)

26. Lionel changes when decorating metal- (6.) 27. Sec, tarts! (Anag.) (8.)

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s. A chum's tree. (6.) 2. Miss Leigh. (6.) 3. " Our careless heads with roses `bound, Our hearts with,loyal -." (Lovelace.) (6.) 4. Otherwise riding-breeches, perhaps. (to.) 6. Bold Mary. (Anag.) (8.)

7. It stops short of saying what the land-worker is engaged upon. (8.) S. All-in shows. (8.) 13. Evidently there are steps in their craft. (ro.) 55. What Moses did on Pisgah, poetically. (8.)

26. Wire to a friend in France. (8.) 17. Mrs. Beeton's home-town? (8.) 59. Definitely an incidental place. (6.)

20. The Hun gets most of 7. (6.)

21. To-morrow progresses repugnantly. (6.)