THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 284

BY ZENO

[A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes will be opened before noon on Tuesday. Solutions should be on the form appearing below. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue. Envelopes con- taining solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot he accepted.] ACROSS t. "Shut up In . . . content."

9. " But not to me returns Day, or the sweet . . . of even or morn."

13. " . . . s or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

14. " The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold."

" It is a . . . and an eager air."

16. " . . of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

27. See 3o.

18. " My . . . began to crow like chanticleer."

20. Spenser's mother of " all dissension."

21. See 31.

22. rev. "Drawn with a ... of little atomics Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

23. rev. Lovelace wrote to her from prison. 24. rev. Initials of a writer who lived 1588-1679. 25. " His favourite sin Is pride that . . . humility."

28. " easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a . .

30. rev. with 17. Ground for building.

31. " 'Tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave (at) . . ." 33. " Th' . a of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagina- tion."

35. " Fury with the abhorred And slits the thin-spun life."

36. with 38. "Render therefore to all their . . ."

37. " The holy time is quiet as

39. rev. '6 . . . as angels for the good man's sin."

40. Bond glee (snag.).

DOWN 2. " Let's talk of graves, of worms, and . ."

3. "A good y the heart."

4. Initials of a poet who lived 1763-1855.

5. " 'Tis better to be lowly born And . . with humble livers in content."

6. " Though they fell, they fell like stars . . . splendour through the sky." 7. Humoured.

8. rev. " A brave man strug- gling in the . . . of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state."

9. " Can storied urn, or . bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? " to. rev. The friend for whom Antonio's life is nearly for- feited.

ix. Part of a cargo.

52. " Which have borne the burden and . . . of the day." 13. " So full of . . . jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

15. " Don't . . . too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.'

19. Fronts of legs.

26. rev. " A careless . . .-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility."

27. " Ship me somewhere east of . . ."

29. " For what is Hamlet, but a . . . in March ? "

32. rev. " They say, there is

divinity in . . . numbers." 34. " And found no . . . in wand'ring mazes lost."

38. See 36. . rotten at