" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 30

ACROSS r. A character of note (two words) (7, 6).

9. A place of eating (5). to. Predatory (9).

II. Mother and children (7).

12. A cipher takes wing (7).

13. Little Red Riding-hood's father or mother? (to).

18. By Mrs. Gaskell (two words) (4, 6).

22. Not quite an honest quadruped (7).

23. News of the state of the water? (7).

24. A mud-maker renamed (9).

25. A relative person (5) 26. People who lack " punch," perhaps (13).

DOWN

I. Just money, conversely (8).

2. Card bridges (8).

3. One Royal Academician turns his back on the others (5).

4. A titan with his head in the clouds isn't necessarily in- terested in this (9).

S. It is yet to be put on the map (6).

6. Three-cleft (6). 7. In whose isle should one look for the Lady of the Lake? (6).

8. Evidently not the region for mixed bathing (7).

14. The opposite of hot-dog?

(9).

15. Here we see the enthusiast Daniel depart (8).

16. Isn't Elsa changed? (8).

17. And put about I see (7). 19. Emu can display it (6).

20. Walpole's cricketer (6). 21. French port (two words) (2, 4).