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Two prizes are awarded each week - a book token for one guinea and a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Cele- fury Dictionary. These will be awarded to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened after noon on Tuesday week.

Af arch 16th, and addressed:

C) OLEWOid 772, 94 Gower St..

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2. A pint, Co1.7 For love. (8.) 14.

9. Gotham of the ancients. (6.) 16.

9. Timber takes great weight at sca. (8.) 10. Border with decoration but irregular. 17.

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12. Literary farm. (6.)

13. Adjusting oneself to life in a York- 20. shire town 't (8.) 15. To be punctilious at football looks

fishy I (12.) 21. 18. Church aspirants. (12.) 23. Set aside by a horsemen. (8.) 22.

24. It's a fact I Really 7 (6.) 25.

26. " The cock'. clarion " (Gray), (6.) 27. Constance is not in retreat in the water. (8.) 28, Material eminently suitable for bed- curtains. (6.) 29. Scalp Sue (snag.). (8.)

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1. Almost a favourite tree. (6.) 2. What's a male sheep 7 (6.) 3. Little fruit makes stout limber for the sailing ship. (7.) 4. " Tho golden noes, the shuts amain" (Milton). (4.) 6. Refuse a bath ? But you might get a present. (7.) 7. Senile but sounds well-off, it's un- canny. (8.)

8. Last game produces a magnum opus. (8.)

Rt %sift in the van of decorators (3. 4.) Belief in ships. (7.) " My fairest, my -. heaven's last be. t gift " (Milton.) (H.) Wax covers part of Birmingham. (8.) The old hen's not occupying all the house evidently I (7.) Is the Scottish hairdresser knowledg- able about transformations ? Dickens he is 1 (7.) The virgin is wearing her winter woollies 1 (6.) A fellow's handsome. (6.) The colonel's mother is sleepy. (4.)