di THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 473
[A Book Token for one guinea will be =voided to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week April 27th. 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.]
ACROSS
1. Where to meet Colonel Blimp. (7, 4.) 9. " Old soldiers never die "-some go here. (7.) 10. It adds a superficial lustre to work. 17.) 11. Our last bat (snag.). (10.) 12. It is incorporated in a real estate. (4.) 14. House of aircraft. (5.) 15. Tall mice come out of it. (8.) 17. Powerless. (8.) 19. Prayed to by Romans. (5.) 22. Ridiculous, the sailor's missing. (4.) 23. The unfeeling can't enjoy them, of course. (10.) 26. Got up and went to bed, it seems. (7.)
27. Getting to the root of the matter it makes him zero. (7.)
28. All the guild are drawn from here. (7, 4.)
DOWN
1. Unexpressed. (5.) 2. Deer return to sleeping quarters. (7.) 3. Unlikely characteristic of the Swiss. (10.) 4. A palpitating suit. (6.) 5. I sure get muddled at the end of the month. (8.) 6. A protective poet. (4.)
7. This turn might be turned off, one might think. (9.)
8. Body with no body. (6.) 13. The musical entertainment is ended in a trice. (10.) 14. Double pay at sea ? (4, 5.)
16. " Sprint " and " flint " and " half pint " are, but in the case of the solution it is just the opposite. (8.)
18. " The swain, Pompey the Great ; the - curate, Alexander " (Shake- speare). (6.) 20. It's tops at the greengrocer's. (7.) 21. Where I mount the broken stair. (6.)
24. " As he plucked his cursed - away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it " (Shakespeare). (5.)
25. Batsman whose offering was success- ful. (4.)
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