Th e Spectator 'Crossword No 84

BY XANTHIPPE.

IA prize of one guinea wilt 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. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue.]

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Unclued words are the names of and the town cont well-known art galleries (one rev.) aining two of them.

ACROSS 11. Precedes being a bishop.

13. Tyre abroad.

14. Head it with its tail and enjoy yourself.

15. Man of deals and ideals.

17. English river.

18. Out of the common.

20. " - alliteration's artful aid."

22. Mixed vegetable.

24. Horses often seen on the cricket field.

25 rev. The first is sometimes turned by important people.

27. The reversal of a voting sys- tem provides for an answer.

29. This material is almost a county.

31. Not gulps, certainly. 33 rev. Continental shark with- out a tail.

34. Noble statesmen should not, says Gilbert.

35 rev. Were-wolf.

37. Famous film company.

38. British river.

39. A backward French place, evidently. 40 rev. British river.

41. "There is a street in Paris famous For which no rhyme or English -" (Thackeray). 42. First and fourth of 41.

43. Cricket club unchecked in 1 ac.

44. Head of 15.

DOWN 1. The doings of politicians sometimes smack of this. a literary 2 rev. Wodehouse wrote of the heart of one.

4. It would be this to specify the politicians alluded to in 1 dn.

5. Similar in sound to 17.

6. This B.C. has not had good luck lately.

7 rev. Make idle music without a thouaancl.

8. Famous artist.

9 rev. An organ has confused one of the Whips. 12 rev. Foreign coin.

13. Those who bestride this • sometimes, alas I only produce its middle.

16. London monarch.

19. A Punch editor gives the bird a start.

21. This word beheaded . palindrome.

26. Same as 6.

30. Beginning of abbey.

32. Steamers don't, yet we say they do.

.36 rev. Not one of the politicians alluded to in 1 dn. is a