"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 235 IA Book Token for 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, September 2157. Envelopes should be received not later than 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. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

ACROSS

7. Where to practise faith healing.

(7, 4)

7. This implies no mixed bathing at Douglas. (4, 2, 3.)

8. " Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of - rhyme." (Poe.)

70. A family affair displayed in trees. i I. Contemporary charge for use of dog- kennel? (7' 12. Evangelising stalls. 14. Indian Civil Service takes first-class.

17. " Speed the parting guest,"-but after this official.

18. Lost dog? In here perhaps. 20. Nothing in the ship, just ornamental. 22. Three in the field, quadruped, biped, monoped. 24. Escape.

2s. Hinder excavation.

26. Of great pitch and moment in Shake- speare.

DOWN 1. One ;ust dips into this author. 2. Conversation with an old fossil about a bird.

3. Umpire's friendly reassurance to the batsman.

4. Recovery from indisposition is the converse of bathroom plaint.

5. Wrong! 6. ' Nor cast one longing, - look behind." (Gray.) 7. It makes one a built-in bed.

9. Pussy as prize? 13. Well timed.

15. Law gets confused in starts.

16. Bad fellow who dives in.

19. Duck from one of the Scilly Isles. 21. The knight's object. 23. Fifty tunes.