"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 538 COMPANY MEETING 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, luly 26th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word 'Crossword." the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 23d. 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. Difficult, perhaps, to travel hot-foot in these. (9.) 6. How music is treated by the courageous. (5.) 9. Later a sort of bear. (5.) 10. He sounds a depressing fop. (9.) 11. A modish zone. (5, 4.)

12. Alias Jumbo. (5.)

13. "I wasted -, and now cloth - waste me" (Shakespeare). (4.)

14. Pickled tree in Devon. (7.) 18. " Presently - the ways to wail" (Shakespeare). (7.)

20. A unit of the Salvation Army. (4.) 23. Where to see the Resident .Magis- trate about trouble. (5.)

25. Spurn gain (snag.). (9.) 26. Done palely in Keats. (9.) 27. It seems that something may be made of a mule. (5.)

28. Manley to some Hocking to others.

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29. Kerry tint (anag.). (10.)

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1. Two for care, or the reverse rather.

(6.) 2. Boat wrecked before getting in. (6.)

3. A lonely stud. (9.)

4. It should be anything but musty. (3, 4.) 5. A miserable lot. (7.)

6. Bridge which seems to complete the Party. (5.) 7. Snare for applause ? (8.)

8. Coupled with champaign by G. M. Young. (8.)

15. Exclamation not likely to be used by a bauman. (4, 1, 4.)

16. Less change round the park. (fl.)

17. She was only the headsman's daughter but she did well at school. (4, 4.)

19. A spending import, it is hoped. (7.) 20. Ages as I change them. (7.) 21. " - upon a peak in Darien" (Keats). (6.) 22. Go up to the untidy yard. (6.) 24. People go to them in the pink. (5.)