4 APRIL 1952, Page 54

THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD .No. 672 , fA Book. Token for one

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened alter noon on Tuesday week. April 151h. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the NUMBER of the Puzzle.]

Across

1. Not the page who answers if one rings. (4. 4,) 5. All among the U.S. Republicans. (6.)

9. Egg in a broken sling. (8.) 10. Half the sermon is about a hostelry. (6.) 12. The comedian's cong6 ? (6.) 13. Close arc. (anag.) (8.) 15. Suggesting the golfer's consideration for players ahead. (12.) 18. Not what printers mean by the head- reader. (12.) 23. Dress tic that wouldn't be tied. (8.) 24. " Where's the maid whose lip - is ever new ? " (Keats.) (6.) 26. Part of the inscription on a German coin. (6.) 27. A salutation with tears. (8.) 28. Some are dished, some pointed. (6.) 29. He makes the bad dog sit or, what else ? (8.)

Down

1. A wave of debt it seems. (6.) 2. " The coastwise - of England watch the ships of England go." (Kipling.) (6.)

3. He gets a blow and is sick at heart.

(7.) 4. A gory sort of riot. (4.) 6. One finds it at the heart of past sug- gestion very shaky. (7.) 7. Daddy seems rather stilted. (8.) 8. Locat'on of a rubber works ? (8.) 1 . A mess for snooker-players. (7,) 14. Cooked badly in the middle. (7.) 16. " The - goodnight twitter about your

cottage • caves." (Browning.) (8.)

17. When to get rigged out In equitation. (8.) 19. Ten cans, (anag.) (7,) 20. Even when it's " all hands on deck " they are required. (3, 4.) 21, Aunt gets mixed up with her I. Q. (6.) 22. Not a neighbourly form of fun or Is it? (6.) 25. Fraud a penny short. (4.)