22 DECEMBER 1944, Page 21

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 302

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct !.ilution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ?armory 2nd. Envelopes should be received nor later than first post that day and must bear the word. " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2]d. 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. Plan not for these-and a dress as well, of course. (8.)

5. Poetry is evidently unwanted. (6.) 9. A task for buttons at the publishers? (8.)

to. Many recommend a shocking cure for it. (6.) is. Piscine balance. (6.) 13. Carle guide. (5.) 16. The artist takes some grapes. (6.) 17. " of herself, though china fall." (Pope.) (8.) so. Sharpness. (8.) 21. Those leaves of Huxley's. (6.)

:3. " No hungry generations - thee

down." (Keats.) (5.) 25. Dull but angular. (6.) 28. Highly-skilled manicurist? (6.)

29. Put about and unconfirmed. (8.) 3o. Inter alia get a planet. (6.) 3s. All it gets back after man. (8.)

DOWN 1. Tom Pinch's drinks, perhaps. GO

2. A group -of five told off in infancy. (a.)

3. " Folly and are so alike, The difference, though essential, fails to strike." (Cowper.) (9.) 4. Miss Alcott's women. (6.) 6. Levi's made his own disguise. (5.) 7. Do they threaten to drag Wimbledon into the black market? (to.) 8. Honey's pure. (Anag.) (to.) i 1. Roman port. (5.) 4. They appear, according to the adage, to be self-destructive architectural features. (to.) i5. He gave Christian a Parchment Roll. (to.) 18. In its absence how can one carry on? (9.) 19. Don't interrupt the play in Suburbia. (5-)

22. Murat's in the river. (6.)

24. Give ear to the doctor, dismal though it be. (S.) 26. It's in all the moral tales. (4.) 27. Icelandic poems. (4.)