" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 484
[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 'say 13th. 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}cl. 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.] 1, 5. In leading strings ? No, yet inferior. (6, 6.) 10. A bad lot. (9.) 11. Part of a knocker on doors. (5.) 12. Pharaoh's undertakers' patron. (6) 13. A smart affair on the leg side, but it isn't cricket. (8.) 15. Ethel, relax in the old meeting place. (6, 4.) 17. Eyesore. (4.) 19. Like other planners, liable to frustra- tion. (4.) 20. Good for coffee, bad for sport. (10.) 23. To which, evidently, love at first sight isn't subject. (8.) 24. " What ! did the hand, then, of the - shake ? " (Omar Khayyam). (6.) 27. Little French import. (5.) 28. From Edward's voice you'd think he is on the rocks. (9.) 29. " The study of mankind is man " (Pope). (6.) 30, The familiar initial sound extends a little Frenchman, and for how long (6.)
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2. A name rooted in diplomacy. (5.) 3. Cold comfort alternatively and sub- junctively. (8.) 4. One has it at one's finger-tips before 5. Make-up for Lent ? (4, 6.) conversing. (4.) 6. Character met in charitable society. (6.) 7, 25. True of old fillings. (4, 2, 3, 5.)
8. 1, 5 nx.tst do this for a living. (6.)
9. Cap for the queue ? (6.) 14. He makes a disturbance in comfort- ing surroundings. (10.)
16. He doesn't necessarily live in dig- gings. (9.) 18. It may be buried in Davos now. (8.) 19. She puts me at the safe end of the rope. (6.)
21. A royal horse if white. (6.) 22. The making of this place is pith. (6.) 25. See 7.
26. " Young - Cupid, he that shot so trim " (Shakespeare). (4.)
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