"The Spectator" Crossword No. 93

BY XANIIIIPPE.

[A prize of 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 Amid 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.] " ACROSS

1. Behold I A lair of Mars ! 9. Might have become Conser- vative leader in 1912.

13. Country apparently ruled by sets of initials. 14. Anagram of a word in one of the above elms.

15 rev. French city.

16. A drug. 17 rev. Curtail the object of Jix's raid.

18. Embracing part of 1 dn. 19. Heard on the automatic telephone.

20. Leslie Ward.

21. Political label not yet out of date.

22 rev. Lasses and lads were ex- horted to do this.

23. This may follow brief Tory tin.

24 rev. Famous art school.

26. Turn back part of Scripture. 28 rev. Castle in Man.

29. Hark after this for a Mull() alphabet.

30. Initials of one of the " na- tional " newspapers.

31 rev. Object of one of the great Liberal pre - War cam- paigns.

33 rev. A worthy heir of 12 dn. 34. Small expenses.

37. Help turns back and curtails the goddess.

38. Tennyson said that he sloped to the west.

39. Home of the iron maiden.

40. You are wanted here to make certain.

DOWN 1. Embrace a lair with a fowl in the middle.

2. -An-other nano for 33 rev. 3.- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of - not Nichols,

but . . .

4. Antony was "given the

bird "-this sort. 5 rev. College official.

6. He lived at -1 dn.

7. Beginning of more than one eminent Biblical charac. ter.

8. Tide, part of an Emperor's Latin name for himself.

9. The successor of 2 dn. wants little ease.

10 rev. Sure after this is well known in the House of Commons.

11. One of the sets of initials (now modified) mentioned in 13 ac.

12. He lived at 1 ae.

20. Shakespeare's Polacks (or pole-axe) want a final 500.

21 MelbOurne's England was this (here curtailed) says Guedalla.

24. Mistake.

25. A city made up of light and gokt 27. A Smelly river 1'

35. Head and tall of a place i Coleridge wrote of in an unfinished poem.

36. A compass-point..