28 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 31

THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 645

IA Book Token for one guinea wall be awarded to the sender of the first correct !elusion opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 9th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2id. stamp. Solutions ,nust be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The !elution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

ACROSS

I. The song of Eros? (8.) 5. Not fresh meat here? (6.) 9. "Where the remote - ride in the ocestn's bosom =espied" (Marvell). (8.) 30. The last ward with pennies. (6.) 12. She changes me also. (6.) 13. Climax of Hood's negative poem. (8.) 35. Might have been spears once. (7, 5.) lb. But it's generally rabbits that are failed in exams. (12.) 23, 24. German for " sublime "? (5, 3, 6.) 26. Horne was one. (6.) 27. Cash not put away? (8.) 28. Silent change. (6.) 29. One must make some allowance for them. (8.)

DOWN

3. Shapely lover of small animals? (6.) 2. "-both of wind and limb" (Butler). (6.) 3. A traveller in U.S.A. (7.) 4. Little Catherine gets to look so wooden! (4.)

6. Ecclesiastical sort of walk. (7.)

7. The palmist's vade mecum? (8.) b. Where was she roaming? (S.) 11. Hang awry in joy. (4, 3.) 34. Denies a new make-up. (7.) /6. The rate is changed with more in the middle. (8.) 17. A drop of 12 inches. (8.)

19. "Not God in - I when the eve is cool?" (Brown). (7.)

20. House with a refrigerator in the basement. (7.) 21. They become what they are at their number. (6.) 22. The ocean rises round a sign of assent. (6.) 25. American city swallowed by an oz. (4.)