2 FEBRUARY 1951, Page 29

THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 612

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded so the sender of the first cornea solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, February 13th.

ACROSS

1. Sweet part of the name Gilbertian king. (10. 4.)

10. Hail to complv: runs in the lake. (7.) 11. Where most villa-dwellers may be said to live. (7.) 12. See rage in the a m. (S.) 13. Hard rearrangement of 1. Lime Street. (9.) 14. Dresses up a returning tribe. (7.) 16. It might be slightly shocking. (4.) 19. Better in men than in machines.

(4.) 20. Set the teeth and stretch the " (Shakespeare). (7.) 23. It makes Mabel riot. (9.)

25. Seen in an old hansom methodically dying for hire. (5.)

plying what one finds on frozen ponds. (7.) 27. In France she can turn first and find a sort of cabin. (7.) 211. Boss, control the vessel l (14.)

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2. " He comes on chosen -, My blackbird bountiful " (Drinkwater). (11.) 3. Tennyson referred to the eternal want of them vexing public men.

(5.) 4. Hasten with the illumination, obso- lete though it is. (9.) 5. I'd go both ways to high order. (S.) 6. Let shorts make them. (9.) 7. " The feast of - and the flow of soul " (Pope). (6.) of a

11. It's a sort of pit-up athur. (6.) 9. Good lord, just opposite of what Turner wrote ! (7.)

15. Mind is raw (snag.). (10.)

16. "-, deep brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the SPOKE of softer woe " (Scott). (9.) 17. Amusing combination of girl and maid. (B.) It. - of foot than the fleet-foot kid " (Swinburne). (7.)

21. Son of Jeroboam. (6.) 22. After death he revived another man in his own grave. (6.) 24. Bowling bad shots. (5.) 25. Gifts to the defeated. (5.)