"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 351 [A 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, December nth. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a sid. 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.] s■ss..
ACROSS
1. Their consumption was interrupted by a spider. (5, 3, 4.) 9. Green hill in U.S.A. (7.) to. Marginal commentator. (7.) is. Their tails might go west. (5.) 13. What to expect in an heraldic incu- bator? (9.) 14. No charge here for cargo aboard? (9.) 15. Could one, in connection with this, say that Sir Max saw red? (5.) 57. It consumes a great many rounds.
(5.) 18. Stone grub. (Anag.) (9.) 20. Such a house becomes a duty. (9.) 22. Capital (punishment) ship. (5.) 24. A dish of oatcake next morning.
(7.)
2 5 . Best in a reSOrt. (7.)
27. A gift and all het up. (7, 5.)
DOWN
t. Much of the transport problem turns on this. (9.) 2. Place it in the heart of a patriot. (3-) 3. Transported at a snail's pace in Shakespeare. (7.) 4. Evidently the no's have it (7.)
5. One of tffe few examples of reliable inconsistency. (it.)
6. "Or like stout Cortez, when with - eyes He stared at the Pacific." (Keats.) (5.)
7- A German dignitary of current interest. (4 -) 8. Even in peace-time they may be found in arms. (8.) 12. They should be found in 3. ('1.) 14."And Heaven as at some - Will
open wide the gates of her high palace hall." (Milton.) (8.)
16. Such things du not go down well, so to speak. (9.)
18. One bircl that assaulted another. (7-) 29. "What though nor real voice nor sound Amidst their - orbs be found?" (Addison.) (7.) 21. He wrote from Greenland's icy moun- tains. (5.) 23. Perhaps it doesn't quite end like that. (4.) 26. Chasten but not Charles. (1.)
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