" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 235

BY ZENO

prtze of one gianea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes will be opened before noon on Tuesday. Solutions should be on the form appearing below. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue. Envelopes containing solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot be accepted.I

ACROSS

I. No one can deny that this place in Essex has intellectual power.

7. rev. A nephew of Abraham 9. rev. Sounds as if it might be

breezy around this foreign seaport. 13. down is a special kind with this. xs. This town in western Brazil is

bounded by a West Indian Island. 57. Garry uses this for a cap.

r8. Earned.

x9. Ore inigilt (anag.). 20. rev. Small village with great character.

as. rev. Tree that is similarly a small enclosure.

23. rev. Bind tightly with 29.

24. rev. Town in Loire. 27. rev. Treading on his this would offend a person in a big way, I suppose (two words).

29. rev. See 23.

30. 20 likened the uncle to this.

3z. City that has broken up many a home.

34. There's nothing covert about this successor.

36. Bunting a cowardly blacksmith might use ?

DOWN

x. Branch of writing that is a matter of life and death.

2. Vowels.

3. Sounds to me like the sort of des- cription a lazy man would write.

4. Drumstick. 5. rev. The North Sea receives this. 6. That which makes a river sound impatient ?

7. This flower grew out of a turban I B. " The grand old gardener and his wife

Smile at the claims of ... descent". ro. Sandy would undoubtedly like to remain unharmed this way.

x x. The mother-in-law of Ruth.

12. " . . . than be less,

Cared not to be at all."

54. When I entered the verve contest between troubadours it caused mental excitement

x6. Put in nothing with the mixed suet -even if you have the domestic implement 21. rev. The first Jewish high priest 22. Assist in a wager.

25. Member of British nobility.

26. Servant at Cambridge.

28. " And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good . . s, In good set . . . s."

31. rev. Musical grass.

33. rev. " Ay, in the catalogue ye go for . . "

35. This is together with this to form a pulmonary disease.