THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 199

[A Book Token Jo' one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zid. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.] 3 ACROSS . Not a structural characteristic of Wren's, evidently.

6. A bit too ready.

o. A career on the radio?

it. Buttons with heart-trouble.

is. Tom Bowling wasn't, all the same, interested in them.

13. It is unlikely to be achieved without company.

14. " The hungry — look up and are not fed." (Milton.)

6. An outstanding feature of the ward

robe.

S. His scores were five.

9. Diminishing light.

. Anything but outspoken folk.

4. Steam yacht " Affirmative."

5. Collapsed coal-pit.

6. One would expect this thistle in a park.

-. A portiun of American emphasis.

S. A gnat saved and naturally achieved these.

DOWN

1, x8. Where the General Medical Council meet? (7, 7.)

2. Part of this material is better than all of it.

3. Men grow them at night.

4. An extract from " When a Man's Single."

5. Spoil oxen with this.

7. " It may be for years and it may be for ever."

8. We must to live.

9. This boy isn't an embryo policeman. t5. Often, said Goldsmith, the only virtue left us at seventy-two.

16. Leech slid out of this.

x7. The end of what's coming is in the middle.

18. See t down.

so. Compensation after bathing.

22. Give them a drink.

23. A cash change which is nominal.

24. Proverbial herring bait.