" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 314

BY ZENO IA 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 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. Envelopes con- taining solutions must bear a three-halfpenny stamp, otherwise they are surcharged on delivery. Solutions from the U.S.A. cannot be accepted.]

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK

The winner of Crossword No. 313 is M. E. Greville, St. Ives Club, St. Ives, Cornwall.

ACROSS a. Although the children might like it, it's not a sleeping- place your pet would like.

9. Manner of walking with tea. 1. The fireman might think they're necessary, but they won't help put a fire out ! 14• The lady who had an 18 experience.

15. rev. Manual art.

17. " That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a . . ."

x8. rev. A treacherous cold- hearted person is this.

19. rev. The slang for so.

2o. I suppose even the most unaffected musician must give himself these.

21. Base.

24. rev. with 31. This age is a fabrication.

25. rev. " When he speak, The . . ., a charter'd liber- tine, is still."

26. The disciple of an oratorio by Mendelssohn !

27. rev. This sky is hoarse.

28. A benevolent person has the source of happiness.

29. " He gave to misery (all he had) a . . ." 3o. Empty sounded ?

32. Spartan citizens were taught discipline and simplicity at these public messes.

33. Part of architecture that has to pass away. DOWN a. No, it would not he:, matters to serve these at the end of dinner !

2. rev. Causes low tension.

3. Preparatory state.

4. Sort calk (anag.).

5. Well-known character in Prometheus Unbound.

6. rev. Can you say that a seaplane has done this ?

7. The kind of glass to use if you drink to her only with your eyes ?

8. Is he after a winnowing- machine Ed comes about- or has it just disappeared ?

9. Put stale materials in a new shape. ro. Dismiss noisily ?

12. These persons of an ambas- sador's suite apparently pay for it in the end.

13. Horse-doctors who come from a long way off.

x6. Isn't this part of a golf- course ever ugly ?

22. rev. Often seen after a shower.

23. The narrow view of things 3r. See 24.