THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 702

IA Book Token for pee guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 11th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1. Envelopes mind be received not later than first post that day and mast bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2,1d. 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 seUl be published in the following Issuel

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More popular, no doubt, with shop- keepers than habitual drinkers_ (5, 7.) Regional reverse of a cold ground inmate. (5.) Sixpenny mints ? (9.) Of course the crew so called him. (8.) A suggestion of woolly plunder. (6.) Do first turn a word of much virtue.

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A permanent wave is not necessarily a symptom of it. (10.) An alternative title for a novel by Reaile, perhaps. (5. 5.) Noise apostrophized divinely. (4.) Total confusion about a hundred. (6.) Get off before the scene changes. (8.) Having nobody to prompt you ? (9.) Crazy poems in dispirited vein. (5.) Don Ferolo might suitably have been the Barber of Seville. (12.)

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Tennyson's garden of girls. (7.) Affirmative divided by half an author quoted here. (6.) There is a deal to write in this game. (53 Some are thinkin' on their An' some upo' their eats." (Burns.) (4.) Superfluous. (8.) Outstanding folk, - hypnotists seek to do them. (6, 5.)

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Pious emperor wrote plays. (6.) More in a fort, (snag.) (11.) The Wellsian machine. (4.) The bird ire-the corner. (4.) This should enable one to see to eat. (3, 5.) -, thou shrine of my dead Saint. Instead of cages this complaint."

(King.) (6.) Ten per cent, of a centipede. (7.) Her aim is in the wrong direction. (6.) Lucky flounder. (5.) " And, for your love to her. lead - In hell." (Shakespeare.) (4.)

A signal example of the palindrome. (3.)