tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 139

ACROSS 1. Call it a day-in U.S.A. (12). 9. Simian cash (7).

to. A mending drink (7).

rt. The lizard gives a knock-out with his tail (5).

13. Meet Mr. Green - he's altogether self-centred (9).

14. She tells one to study one's pose (9). 15. It's just the same (5).

17. " They that reap must and bind " (Shakespeare) (5).

18. This should be a superfluous sign to a dowser (9).

2o. I, Rosa Lamb, take this dis- guise (9).

22. Days after this Grahame wrote (5). 24. Encore Street (7).

25. Where the hen sits (7). 27. Being sat on didn't impair his reputation (t2).

DOWN I. Of which were Blake's songs (9).

2. Dandy a penny short (3).

3. " Search, then, the ruling : there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known " (Pope) (7).

4.- Chesterton referred to one knotted for a ball (7).

5. "Had I the heavens' cloths Enwrought with golden and silver light " (Yeats) (ii).

6. Camulodunum's river.

7. How vulgar faces can look (4).

8. An exasperating hobby, one might think (8). 12. How does the kangaroo make his progress? (3 words) (3, 2, 6).

14. This unfortunate man appears to carry out a Shakespearean injunction concerning physic (8).

16. " Much have I - in the realms of gold " (Keats) (9).

18. Look out, the French ! (7).

19. Admonished like a story not narrated on the stage (2 words) (4, 3).

21. Be a companion of honour (5).

23. A suggestion of Irish pro- blematical indebtedness (4)- 26. She would make a good lift attendant (3).