" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 253

BY ZmNo

[A prize of a Book Token for 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 toter than first post on Tuesday. 1■1,:, 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. Envelopes containing solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot be accepted.]

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ACROSS

t. "A friend should bear his friend's infirmities."

9. " That best portion of a good man's life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."

13. Lay inside boat with Ia. 74. See i3 across. i5. Voracity for beef. 17. See 7. 18. rev. See 28. 19. rev. Piece of fancied enlighten- ment. 20. " Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah ! little do you think upon The danger of the seas." 22. Food to eat and what you do to it. 23. " To love her was a liberal educa- tion " appeared in this. 24. My first is unchecked in x down, my second in 36. 25. Clothes. 27. Wait comes to a finish. 28. with x8 and 34 across. "All travelling becomes dull in exact pro- portion to its rapidity." 29. An acacia in Sandwich Is. 30. No creature smarts so little as a fool." 3t. Vowels.

32. See 4. 33. rev. This part of an animal ends completely. 34. See 28. 35. My first is unchecked in x across, my second in 16. 36. rev. " After death the doctor." 37. " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it."

DOWN

I. "We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death."

2. " Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! Hail, ye heroes ! heaven-born band !" 3. " Law is a Bottomless Pit." 4. rev. Inspired person with 32. 5. " Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." 6. " Apres moI le deluge." 7. rev. with 17.

" And he smiled a sort of sickly smile and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more." 8. " The Right Hon. gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." so. This cat can be got by a coin. H. rev. Sounds like but a step to an impertinent gaze. 12. " The King of France, with forty thousand men, Went up a hill, and so came down down agen."

/3. "Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee ? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."

16. " Sculpture and Painting are moments of life ; Poetry is life itself, and everything around and above ith" 19. e best of men ,. T That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer." 2I. Towers. 26. rev. T-shaped.

3o. " Take thy beak from out of my heart, and! take thy form from off my

34- My first is unchecked in 8, my second in I across.