"THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 520 [A 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, March 22nd. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word " Crossword," she NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2]d. stamp. Soh/lions 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
1. Fish stream associated with hunting. (9.) 5. This month could display it. (5.) 8. What an old god 1 (5.) 9. Not quite the place for a baton. (9.) 11. Unsorted files take time, but surely not so much as this ! (9.) 12. Dickens character found under an- other name in Gay. (5.) 13. It gets into the soup and proclama- tions. (4.) 14. They get their board and that, so to speak, is where their lodging is. (9.) 18. Go-betweens of a sort. (9.) 21. just water. (4.) 23. An unspecified alternative to the termination. (3, 2.) 25. No doubt people did in the labyrinth. (9.) 27. But not, therefore, necessarily Tory. (9.) 28. One of the things taken on trust by listeners. (5.) 29. A hold-up in the studio. (5) 30. This East Anglian place is celebrated for its last syllable. (9.)
DOWN
1. We get a lot back and divide it. (5.) 2. Such reading of fortunes lacks con- trol. (3, 2, 4.) 3. They're held. (6.) 4. Is this what happened to the old dug-out ? (7.)
S. Highly cryptic description of fast motoring. (8.)
6. An asset repeated. (5.) 7. Heats do anagrammat cally (4, 5.) 10. An old face-saving device. (5.) 13. A king of Britain. (9 )
15. Found its " a banner with a strange device." (3.) 16. Oil painting of a large hoop. (9.) 17. Spenser's knight or lady. (8.)
19. It sounds a confusing sort of bowl. (5.) 20. Love-in-a-mist. (7.) 22. " Was to receive and - to retain " (Byron). (6.) 24. Fanny Cleaver was their dressmaker.
(5.) 26. Overall stuff. (5.)
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