" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 32 [A prize

of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first cone. t solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be market "Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Wednesci,... No envelopes will be opened before noon on Wednesday. Solutions should be on rue form appearing below. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue. Envelopes containing solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot be accepted.)

ACROSS I. A suitable seat for the syco- phant (9). 6. Briefly in favour of them (5).

9. A drop mixes (5). to. Is avenges made out of them (9). 11. Kingsway? (a words) (5, 4).

12. A bit of entertainment (5).

13. The woman assisting the Services is about fifty-one (5)- 15. Nobody's native tongue (9). 18. Exhibited (9). 19. " Few sons attain the praise Of their great - " (5). 2o. " Ah, my heart-my heart is yearning Still to be by cool! " (5). 22. Shy girl it might be (probably not!) (9). 25. Channel (9). 26. Findlater unfound (5). 27. Museum, with a slight change of letters (s). 28. These are not written in 6 down (9).

DOWN

x. Upside down this beast appears to be memorialised at some place unnamed (5). 2. " To sport with - in the shade, Or with the tangle of Nezra's hair " (9).

3. Booty (5).

4. How those who get hard labour conduct themselves?

(9).

5. A reverse for Satan (5).

6. Sailors do, or sometimes stop and call (9).

7. Where the performer was weary and ill at ease (5). 8. So don't Sam adopt monstrous disguise (9).

13. Go with me for a book (2 words) (4, 5)-

14. What is implied in our quotation from Milton (9). 16. They show how people have come down in the world (9).

17. A criterion of constancy (2 words) (5, 4). 21. These may be found in the mine and on top also (5).

22. Walking ship (5). 23. Not the opposite of an outlaw (2 words) (2, 3). The length of rigging (5).

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