." THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No: 303
pl Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct olattion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, Yanuary 9th. Envelopes should be received not later 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 name of the winner will be published in the following issue.] ACROSS I. Where eventually the shoemaker is found making outsize footwear? - (2, 4, 4.) .15. High cards, high fliers. (4.) 9 Don't ask Mr. Culbertson to play this,-except with a camera! (4.) so. Inn? Dear me, this isn't the shortest way to it. (9.) 13. When it comes to painting one must expel the merry old soul. (9.) 14. The old doctor rather a worm. (5.) 15:Roasting with no ring, but an oven. (4.) • 16. Official marks not easily extracted. (x0.) 19. All are - of Fate, Working in these walls of Time." (Long- :fellow.) ( t o.) 21. It sounds such a vulgar song. (4.) 24. Writer of at least one maxim. (5.) 25. Leine drama. (Anag.) (9.) 27. Twisted tail and grows wan about k. (9.) 28. It sounds like champagne, Browne! (4-)
29. Come from Tokyo, do you? 6 3o. Viper's grass made of zero (1 0.)
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(4.) acorns.
• - 2. Let us go round the hostelry. (7.) 3. Bedlinen, one might think. (6.) 4. Doctor immersed in rising oil passes into the unknown. (5.) 5. He got his deserts, so to speak, and other people's. (9.) 7, Ah, crime, how puzzling it is! (7.) 8. They go straight to our hearts. (12.) 1. An oracular sort of place. (6.)
12. "I myself seem to know thy looks, And put the shepherds, Wan- derer, on thy trace." (M. Arnold.) (7, 5.)
17. But it isn't really a room or an attic. (9.) x8. Kipling's "marching song of a Roman Legion of the Later Empire." (6.) 20. The deputy lieutenant enters made fit. (7.) 22. Just a line after a little work. (7.) 23. Queen of Song. (6.) 26. Found between one tread and the next. (5.)
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