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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 688 IA Book Token for one

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct wlution opened after noon on Tuesday week. August 5th. addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. Solutimu 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.)

Act Oss

I. She will go to the great singer. (6.) 4. Seen on an African billiard table ? (8.)

10. Abodes, it seems, of human lizards. (7.) 11. Where there is irritation in know- ledge. (7.) 12. Substance of lawyers' dreams under the influence of Queen Mab. (4.)

13. For those who wash but can't take It lying down ? (4, 6.)

16. One who makes a display is wet. (6.) 17. They change to prism. (7.) 20. A soft ball to Lamb. (7.) 21. Am I her disguise ? (6.) .

24. Not very, stimulating devotional books? (10.) 25. One meets it in intense tuition. (4.) 27. " All that - of her Now is -Pure womanly." (Hood.) (7.) 29. Art in a coloured man. (7.) 30. Divided. (8.) 31. "She was married, charming -. and twenty-three." (Byron.) (6.) Down 1. They proved the undoing of Selma. (8.).

2. Do my one true anagram. (11.) 3. Star of Spanish poetry. (4.) S. A hook Amy ? . (anag.) (8.) 6. In they provide skeletons with aspirates 7 (5, 5.) 7. See 28.

8. Unpacked as sent. (6.) 9. A prize for Wilde ? (5.)

14. A poet's were concerned with immortality. (11.)

15. Make a senior officer? (10.) 18. Aversion. (8.) 19. A smiling monumental opera of cards. (8.) 22. Decorates. (6.) 23. Toby took it with this expert. (5.) 26. " Where he stands the - Fear in a visible form." (Browning.) (4.) 28, 7. Urged by Campbell to wave all its banners. (6.)