" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 579
[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, May 9th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2]d. 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
I. It admits of no alternati-/e. (7, 6.)
8. When high water and low are coincidental ? (8.) 9. He carried his father out of a fire.
12. He can be found in the composition of any pretty picture. (4.) 13. He sounds worse than being hen- pecked. (5.) 14. An ominous shape for cricketers.
17. Doesn't this offer like to be touched ? (6.)
18. Bacon can look so noble ! (7.)
20. This jeornalist was known as Tay Pay. (7.) 22. " There is a - in her face where roses and white lilies show " (Alison). 25. I am returning to 28 in Paris. (4.)
26. These locks. like others, ma.• be oiled. (5.)
27. A fish winds un the music. (4.) 30. Mixed hop in three points. (6.) 31. Do they doze while mendir - the road ? (8.) 32. Hardy Shakespearianism. (9, 4.) DOWN 2. More than 20 cwt. in Hants. 0.)
3. Took a chair low, since. (4.) .
4. Not the head to be found on old shoulders. (6.) 5. " Who drives fat - should himself be fat " (Johnson). (4.)
6. Companion of Honour with a very bad liver ; must have been the salad. (7.)
7. She takes one in. (12.) 10. Wise man with a flower of fiction. (7, 5.) 11. Make fit about five. (5J 15. Hunter of fiction. (5.) 16. " Without a word, without a sudden and swift Gillespie turned " (Newbolt). (5.) 19. Today's movement is so sociable. (5.) 21. Evidently one can't get in by it. (7.) 23. Cash on delivery. I see, ecclesiastic- ally. (7.) 24. the Brave and the Fair Imogene." (6.) 28. The difference between Brown and Browne. (4.) 29. It's fatal on this. (4.)
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