"The Spectator" Crossword No. 98

By XANTHIPPE.

[A prize of 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 an 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.]

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ACROSS 1. A " rubber dollar " would, of course, be liable to this.

9. Appears in many pious exclamations.

12. 7iyi up iiksin liag (snag.).

14. The London suburb ends with a small bet.

16 rev. Take a penny from Miss Bell.

17. Famous caricaturist.

18 rev. Terminus of a walking. tour famous in literature.

20 rev. What most Smiths

Minor dislike: 22. Ned Throater (anag.).

25 rev. Space.

°6. Tao comes next.

29. Arras inhabitant.

30. The aspirant may be spurred on, or this out.

33. Recta, perhaps, or is it what a cockney Hamlet said ?

35. Such a screen may be in church.

36. Mix what Keats wrote about.

37. Smiles would be of assist- ance here.

38. Mix an ancient Teutonic writing.

39 rev. Mr. Winston Churchill fought here.

DOWN 1. This English town would he wobbly if it lost its head.

2. French epic contains al, English poet.

3. Think of Balfour (not the famous one, but the other).

4. Such a bust is Eamons ilt poetry.

5. An article is missing from a familiar quotation.

6 rev. Nothing is missing from one the U.S.A.

7. Royal initials are missing from dismal sounds.

8 rev. Kind of song.

9. The -negro points out a hill to Edward ; it is out of shape.

11, 10 (last two letters in reveme order). Bow-wow or miaou, for instance. 13. NotOrious Paul.

15 rev. The " big this " in Chicago usually ends by being this.

19. Military initials.

21 rev. Creeper.

23. Golfing centre.

24. An article is missing from Chaucer or Cupid.

27. An animal less fifty is a Greek play.

28 rev. Beheaded tobacco may be foul and midnight.

31 rev. The elder Roosevelt. has left a cathedral town.

32. Theatricals without mother. 34. Robot play.

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 97 is Miss M. H. B. Macmillan, 30 Ashley Avenue, Belfast.