THE "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD ,No. 603

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, December 12th. 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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Cutting the dandy ? (7, 3, 4.) A bouquet, perhaps, for the author of " The Beggar's Opera " to smell. (7.) A very fiery cocktail. (7.) I possess, it seems, a detached bit of land. (4.) " I can call spirits from the - deep " (Shakespeare). (5.) What a blow one may get from an aspirated lettuce (4.) Ships, no doubt, must thread their way past them. (7.) One of many imagined El Dorados. (5.) " Old likeness to dress this - set garden " (Shakespeare). (5.) Scalp it (snag.). (7.) Marriage pudding. (4.) Had she ways, so to speak, of making puzzles ? (5.) One can't get a blessing without it. (4.) A sign of approach. (7.) A knight followed by two facing companies gets the wind up. (7.) Not mine comrade (anag.). (10

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Nostrum for cooling hearts. (7.) Turn up the gas from zero. (4.) Grass recipient of epistles. (7.) Learning without heather. (4.) A sort of horse embodying three. (7.) • A single chess-piece. (6, 8.) 8.

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Old man of the sea. (7, 7.)

Kipling wrote them between. (5.) " To - on the glaze and the mark of china that's ancient and blue " (Lang). (5.) Poet turned etymologist. (5.) Short account includino a broken chair. (7.) Seaside hair-do. (7.) Wounds flowers. (5.) " Cats may have had their goose cooked by ---- juice" (Calverley). (7.) White elephant country. (4.) A pinafore for a child. (4.)