THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 461 [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 Tue,day week February 3rd. Envelopes must be received nor later titan first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. Solutions muss 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.] I4 I I 11201 I .„
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ACROSS
I. After seven it may be described on ice. (6, 5.)
9. Found in the margin, perhaps. (7.)
10. Where the air 'turns to a confused gale. (7.)
11. Two arks met in this place. (10.) 12. " Earth is but a star that - had shone " (Flecker). (4.) 14. Fastening provided by a Celt. (5.) 15. It's adhesive. (8.) 17. " No better a - than the wren " (Shakespeare). (8.) 19. Hop off from the schoolboys' favourite resort. (5.) 22. Hungry headless David. (4.) 23. "Rosalind wished that Celia had been afflicted with it. (10.) 26. Like Patmore's household companion. (7.) 27. ". . . The gallows-maker ; for that frame ositlives a thousand - (Shakespeare). (7.)
28. Much turned on it in "Kim." (5. 2, 4.)
DOWN 1. Stubborn things. (5 ) 2. Colour of quarry round the slough. (7.)
3. Ham cures it (anag.). (10.)
4. Omar's sorry scheme of things. (6.) 5. Suggestive of the Gloucestershire C.C.C. some decades ago. (8.) 6. Such common clothes ! (4.)
7. " Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a - life" (Cowper). (9.)
8. She may graduate and split in the process. (6.) 13. " Your If is the only peace-maker : much -" (Shakespeare). (6, 2, 2.) 14. Batman curled up in his cot. (9.1 16. Just a very little. (8.) 18. Beer with punch in it. (6.) 20. China it comes from,-or Italy ? (7.) 21. Let's return after morning to the river. (6.) 24. Vessel in a confounded cgo becomes literary. (5.) 25. Windy expletive. (4.)
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