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.4 THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 385 [A Book Token

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct lution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 6th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and nun bear the word "Crossword." the NUMBER of the puzzle.and.a 24d. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, arid 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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and home " (Wordsworth). (4.) is. Foreign rivet-bird. (5.)

13. They are not refined by being strained. (9.) 14. Aunt Sally's complexion as a result of dividing it ? (4.) r6. John Halifax. (9.) ro. A chore for the palmist, Perhaps. (5, 4.)

22. A capital song it ;night be. (4.) 25. Longfellow invited us not to talk of it as wasted. (9).

26. An attack of stone. (5.) 28. A beastly sign. (4). 29. Identifying him isn't quite as easy as A.B.C. (4, 6.) 30. College goes back to paper money. (4.) 3r. " The cowslips tall her - be " (Shakespeare). (to.)

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T. This place might suggest Charles I to Stuartophiles. (8.) 2. A man of the trees. (5.) 3. Old maid yet new. (6.) 4. Expand. (7.) 5. Celebrate vocally having got a tenant. 7. As is well known they give tongue in a military group (9.) 8. Poem on a capsized donkey. (6.) 1. On Browning's bottle label. (s.) 15. How the, coin showing tail falls. (4, 5.) 17. It can be found in any old Portuguese dictionary. (5.) x8. They are usually tabled and booked first. (8.) 20. It drives home the point. (7.) 21. They did not vegetate in Eow Street. (7.) 23. Opera to send one into transports. (6.) 24. Place for blades. (6.) 27. Battle river. (5.) •