"The Spectator" Crossword No.

BY ZENO

[A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes will be opened before noon on Tuesday. Solutions should be on the form appearing below. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue.]

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ACROSS

1. Answering may not pique, but it will get under the skin.

9. This will set it aside.

14. rev. It is to myself 15. Found with many a joint.

16. The alternative for this can be found in 9.

18. One with three times this number.

19 rev. Once went with fists and cuffs, but not with fisti- cuffs.

21. Accompaniment to many a religious canvas.

22 rev. What looks like a twenty to one result is better left where it says.

23. Ply away, and you can get this out of 15.

25. " If your name be Horatio, as I am ... to know it is."

27. Cockney ejaculation.

28. Temper but not tempera- ment.

30. Electrical combinative form -often before 14.

31. Append its head if you want to stretch out.

32. It would be a deception with the syllables reversed.

33. What fashions constantly fall into.

35. A target for marksmen.

36 rev. Contains little affection when it's as cold as the ice it forms reversed with- out an end.

DOWN

What some consider a mod- ern mania.

2. A meaty first course.

3. To do this is a sad business- for part of it you will never get over.

4. Requirement to have a dentist soothe it.

5. It's bound to be seen muddled with the tax.

6. Nothing before one pound, and a dog around another with nothing about it.

7. The serviceable part of 33.

8. Seems as if it were a frolic up in the air.

10. Badge of religious order.

11. What a great poet called 8.

12. Nothing has disappeared from the summit.

13. Spears and axes made one. 17. Lorry.

20. Let nothing interfere with drinks.

23 rev. Makes a bowl lop-sided. 24. Always busy.

26. Just what it says.

29 rev. Found at the roadside. 34. On many letters. 1.