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one gumea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct wlauon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, pane 15/k. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and MUSE ha,- the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zid. stamp. Solutions trust be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution the name of the winner Will be published in the following issue.]

ACROSS

I. Gilbert advised them to " stick close to your desks and never go to sea."

5. A loud company.

9. A notoriously gay fellow.

o. Euclid's people.

t. Is this screwed op to keep the globe on its axis?

2. Just look into this!

4. How to overcome the pussyfoot menace. (4, 3, 3.) S. Measure back in changes.

2. " I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where — and the nodding violet grows." (Shakespeare.) 3. Leap dais to get it.

4. He nearly gets a hen into a pew..

t. This is not only the concern of

omnibus companies.

. Food for an artist.

7. Jesse's poet.

DOWN

t. "And the — lay as if asleep along her beaded arm." (Rossetti.) 1. "- I loved, and next to

Art." (Landon) 3. She gets round the Irishman. 4. People with a taste for fine verse? 6 But to do it might put the flame out. 7. They have, so to speak, no business to be thus affluent. (4, 4.) 8. Turks, Sam, in these.

13. Dancing water. (4, 6.) " Hesperus " was one.

r6. All three did in Browning's poem.

17. Pantaloon wear.

z9. just a small type.

20. Cut for sauce.

21. 20'S are used to.