24 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 34

"The Spectator" Crossword No. ai

BY XANTHIPPE.

tA prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's cross-word puzzle to lie opened. Envelopes should be marked " Cross-word Pimie," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes .will be opened before noon on Tuesday. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue.!

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1. This member of a famous variety partnership seems to have no clothes; perhaps on account of the absence of gold. 5. A trading --plaoe..t.fn the steamship stiags. ..

9. Presumably the sea to which Mph ran was also this.

10. A place of descent in Switzerland.

12. So it seems.

13. Not always an epithet for the university bachelor. 14. Equal decay gets the bird.

17. For the golfer or the delin- quent afloat.

20. The politician's nursery. 21. A sermon for the mounted - infantry in holy surround- ings. - 24. Mild.

25. Kind of dog.

28. The story puts an end to the subject of a famous . theory. .

29. German with a bracing finish.

30. The Piccadilly sort was once a manly adornment.

31. Doubtful ones should not carry your shirt.

DOWN 1. Rub men (snag.).

2. Gilbert tells us that King Paramount was its ruler.

3. Divide.

4. Attack.

6. Does this describe J. C. Squire's temperament ? 7. Material maker.

8. Are comets' tails made of this ? 11. The method turns a Flemish painter topsy-turvy (if you spell him that way).

15. Yea, cannon (snag.).

16. The artist is over here to show the founder of a London hospital.

18...Accompanies a yo-heave-ho, and suggests spirits in the bold. ,

19. A bit of wood is at the heart of the conversation.

22. Mix an Italian city to • indicate. •• 23. The Highlander need spend no money on these. 26. Re this to go back.

27. To solve world problems some think that this should come before nationalism. SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD No. 21

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