" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 355 M Book Token
for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, January 8th. Envelopes must be received not Jitter than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zid. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The. solution and the mane of the winner will be published in the following issue.]
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23 ACROSS
r. Father's style seems rather stilted. (5, 8.)
9. Type of ruler introduced by a dark military device. (9.) to. Cockney fireman's excuse for failure might get him hung. (5.) ix. He said Browning used poetry as a medium for writing in prose. (5.)
12. " may exist without a pro- portionable degree of wisdom." (Burke.) (9.)
13. A tattered plant. (7.) 15. Child sleeps. (7.) 17. Vigorous. (7.) 19. Flower of a pious little company starting golf. (7.) 21. Furs of ice. (Anag.) (9.) 23. " Speak, hands, for me," he said. (5.) 24. Small coin in the plate. (5.) 25. Demure, I've finished with it. (9.) 26. No doubt they were liberally labelled. (9, 4.)
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2. Might be columbine. (9.) 3. Flock. (5.) 4. Tar legs. (Anag.) (7.) 5. Fabricated at Wimbledon, no doubt, (7.) 6. Fish turns up with French tongue. (9.) 7. " Without a word, without a Sudden and swift Gillespie turned." (Newbolt.) (5.) 8. Cuts off. (6.)
9. " Th' unwearied Sun from day to day Does his Creator's - dis- play." (Addison.) (5.) 14. Unceremonious though normal card- playing. (3. 2, 4.)
76. Stage tint. (Anag.) (9.) 17. A priest turns up to meet the end of 6. (17.) 18. Politician among the condiments. (7.) 19. Tennyson's tearful flower. (7.)
20. Escape. (5.)
22. Might give me lip. (5.)
23. 151 with a medico. (5.)
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