" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 233 IA Book Token for
one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct whaion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ,s,ptember 7th. Envelopes should be received not later than firs post that day and must bar the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 25d. stamp. Solutions ',lust be on the form below, and none can be accepted from tie U.S.A. The solution ,,,d the nmne of the winner will be published in the following issue.]
ACROSS 1. Unsampled bacon, perhapr.
(1, 3, 2, I, 4.)
7. Not the method of the terse Latin narrator. (2, 3.) 8. " Freedom shrieked as - fell." (Campbell.) to. They arc most successful in the sunshine.
ii. Plunged but unpaid. 12. Here must one see Eve about a short book.
14 Military nonsense? (5. 3.) 17. Neither alternatively in 20.
18. A sort of eastern no-man's-land. 20. is Lee her alias?
22. Playing a stringed instrument out of tune?
24. Hardly what his political opponents would have called the future Earl of Guilford. (4, 5.) 25• Counsel do. 26. Stout peer in confusion but still displaying ostentation.
DOWN 1. Like a book by Wilkie Collins. 2. Bolognese painter and his birthplace. 3. Writer's beacon.
4. He estimates.
5. The banner of St. Denis. 6. No messenger can do without this. 7. " Something attempted, something done." 9. State of a congested marshalling yard? 13. " Now - has a brood of eggs, But Patience must be hen." (Meredith.) 15. Desires an alteration of promptitude. 16. Art returns to metrical composition. xg. Surprising that one can get the top in it.
zr. Cricket is not the essential theme of this orator.
23. A briefer system of supply.
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