3 DECEMBER 1948, Page 29

"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 506

[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 14th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. 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 pialished in the following issue.]

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1. Hardy characters. (7.) 2. One can make a horse draw out of st... (9.) 3. Folind among the selection com- mittee. (5.) 4. Hardly the tool with which to smarten one's joy-rags. (7.) 5. Parked in London. (7.) 7. Celestial giant. (5.) 8. A sort of 28 if really good. (7.) 9. Nloby Dick was full of them. (8.) ACROSS

1. Enter Sir Patrick in the diary. (10.) 6. Head of a bird or ant. (4.)

10. In turn get an order for her. (5.) 11. Determined canine attachment to a mat. (9.) 12. The last thing one would put on a bed of roses. (5, 4.) 13. Infectious fright that may be only grass. (5.) 14. Nine inches round art. (7.) 16. It's only changed. (7.) 18. A doctor between the ends of 13.

(7.) 20. It may give you the change you need. (7.) 22. Goat with no cereal. (5.)

24. Seems inaccurate in telling about a

schoolgirl. (9.) - 26. Arch Diana (anag.). (9.) 27. Doctor comes out of the angle. (5.) 28. Idle repetition. (4.) 29. Wilde wrote them. (10.) 15. Something like the Boston affair perhaps. (3, 5.) 17. A serious misunderstanding. (9.)

18. Probably it doesn't feel done up. (7.)

19. Flower of poetry. (7.) 20. One of Caesar's murderers half- dead. (7.) 21. Men discovered in their elevenses. Roman style. (7.)

23. It might be cheap but isn't. (5.) 25. Bourdillon gave it a thousand eyes.