25 MAY 1944, Page 21

" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 272 • [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, ]:me 6th. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from he U.S.A. 'I he solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

ACROSS 1. Hare's last rests. (4.) 3. A Birmingham suburb I give up. (zo.) to. " Lay not that flattering - to your soul." (Shakespeare.) (7.) it. An employe to send me to sleep?

(3, 4.) 12. "0 Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet for a poetic child! " (Scott.) (5.)

13. It's a ghostly task. (8.)

15. A modern poet anagrammed and divided. (3, 3, 2.) 17. Singular companion of t across. (6.) 19. Venus needs it. (6.) al. Hitler had a fright when given the bird. (8.) 24. I smoke him, but not with this spell- ing. (8.) 25. As the hurry changes. (5.) 27. Cows know nothing of this milk.. (7.) 28. Famous air victory. (7.) 29. Learn dress. (Anag.) (so.) 30. Yeats's Rows. (4.) DOWN I. Is he really necessary? (to.)

2. One wouldn't expect these vehicles to break down. (7-)

4. Sketches of a little town. (8.)

5. A duke of Trollope's. (6.)

6. Ethelred certainly wasn't. (9.) 7. One gets hot when about to merit.

(4, 3.) 8. Clothes that don't go off. (4.) his spells, And yet came off." (Milton.) (4.)

14. One might, after paying up. (6, 4.) 16. The nudist seems to have lost his court action. (3, 6.)

18. The goat is evidently a persevering chap. (8.)

20. Where is the officers' dining-room? (7.) 22. Cause of conspicuousness. (7.) 23. " An - ether, a diviner air, And fields invested in purpureal gleams." (Wordsworth.) (6.) 25. No doubt this actor used this foot. (4.) 26. Heady saint. (4.)