, 4 THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 180 [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. Envelopes should be received nor later than first t rst that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zici. 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 ba published in the following issue.]

ACROSS

and 6. Quite a card, and very wealthy, apparently. (4, 2, 8,) 9. In which beginners take the rough with the smooth.

io. Rebel in confusion about a nobleman.

13. Here we get in with no small change.

14. It sounds a luminous lift.

15. Froth and bubble.

;6. Despite the name, the items are

generally indispensable. (5, 5.).

19. A bad fellow and never, apparently,

an efficient swindler. (4, 2, 4.) 21. Just a lake.

24. Gaucherie in Lapland?

:5. Good night, this often follows!

(5, 4.) 27. Quite the wrong term to apply to Minn.

28. " AII I ask, the heaven above, And the - below me." (Stevenson.) 29. It justifies insurance, if not assur- ance.

30. Note I bless does look altogether honest thus.

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2. " -with rank fumiter and furrow- weeds, with bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers.' (Shake- speare.) 3. How not to keep fish in hot weather.

4- One shouldn't be over this, even if only a model.

5. "Left to alien brows their famed - crown." (Newbolt.)

7. Sprucer.

8. Not the spa where a harness-maker gets bigger. (7, 5.)

x 1. Green.

12. Evidently somebody left the sty gate open. (4, 2, 6.)

17. Places of interest, not the progress of chess-men.

x8. A little publicity.

20. A signal example of what England does.

22. The answer to Elia's question, " Who wrote ' Tales from Shakespeare '? " (3, 4.) 23. I press for these.

26. Besides I intercept it for her.