i 4 THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 481 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 7une 22nd. Envelopes must 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.]
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1. Is it cubs ? (5, 8.) 9. No good cook would serve lamb with this game. (9.) 10. Even more refined. (5.) 11. Where the performer was weary and ill at ease. (5.) 12. A gap separates the sharpening in- strument from me. (9.) 13. One greets him open-mouthed. (7.) 15. The peer gets round everybody coming back. (7.) 17. Shakespeare's porpentine was. (7.) 19. The rubber is almost gone and that's incomparable. (7.) 21. Hood's fairies. (9.) 23. Fifty-one and then half the number. (5.) 24. His land is unoccupied. (2, 3.) 25. Juliet, even so, was one too much for Capulet. (4, 5.) 26. It shows how far-reaching may become a tanner in toil. (13.)
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2. Penury. (9.)
3. Here one might find a bath chap, but not an English one. (5.) No use to those who can't stand rubbing down. (7.)
5. Little difficulty in recognising north- easterly gales here. (7.) 6. Out of favour. (9.) 7. It lacks members. (5.)
8. " Every sacred name in one, my - " (Pope). (6.) 9. This colonel was by no means blue. (5.)
14. Fine uncle will produce it. (9.) 16. A neat ring (aneg.). (9.) 17. " is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes " (Shakespeare). (6.)
18. Illumination at the end of the after- noon. (7.) 19. Chaucer's hen is not fully occupied. (7.)
20. Wasn't one of Wilkie Collins's books ? (5.) 22. He turns up a wanderer. (5.) 23. A Shakespearian fantastic. (5.)
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