5 AUGUST 1949, Page 29

a THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 541

IA Book Token for one guinea will he awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened alter noon on Tuesday week, August 16th. Envelopes must be recerved not later titan 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. I he solution and the name of the winner will be publidwd sts the following issue.)

ACROSS I. Self returns about morning. (6.) 5. It goes with a squeak and formed company down south. (6.) 10. An example of motionless flight. (9.) 11. Why there were not any shrimps. (S.) 12. He's entertaining by the sea just now. (6.)

13. Something more to be put before the finish with a suggestion of hesitation. (8.)

15. Stir glue into the allowance. (10.) 17. A wagon of cats ? (4.) 19. " An eye like - to threaten and command " (Shakespeare). (4.) 20. Can Ross act ? (anag.). (10.) 23. Not likely to be found at the fat- stock shows. (4, 4.) 24. A time of discontent. (6.) 27. Anyway it turns. (5.) 28. " Dire chimeras and - isles And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell " (Milton). (9. ) 29. It might have figured but doesn't in " Scenes of Clerical Life." (6.) 30. It always occurs in the allegations we deny. (6.) DOWN 2. Useless to say they know no bounds. (5.) 3. Hardly a tower of strength today. (1.) 4. Have you change for a wasp ? (4.) S. Did it direct the 11.U.s ? (10.) 6. If it bolts with anything it must be a golf-ball. (6.)

7. Such an aisle 27 ouintpwnicd a fretted vault. (4, 5.)

8. This line gives Boris • change. (6.) 9. A saint gets the last word in botany. (6.) 14. Epitomised in the last line of Chris- topher Smart's famous poem. (10.) 16. Transformation of a gaunt rag. (9.) IL One doesn't hear • drop of It. (II.) 19. A peer abroad. (6.) 21. I go into business. (6.) 22. They provide examples of the long and the short of it. (6.) 25. 19 down is no real one. (5.) 26. Not to be confused with Pygmalion. (4.)