7'1 - 1E " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 550 IA Book token

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct wiution of this week's crossword to be opened alter noon on Tuesday week, 0, sober 18th. Envelopes must be received not later than fast post that day and ,,,,,s bear the word " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. s, ;titian: must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. i,e solution and the name of the winner will be published m the following issue.]

ACROSS

1. But, all the same, this is a very accurate going concern. (4, 5.) 6. It's the lizard's tail that carries the knock-out. (5.) 9. "- Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away " (Shakespeare). (9.) 10. His grave was dug with bayonets. II. An improvement on Nazi rig. (7.)

15. Parisian redskins. (7.)

15. Or taste it might be. (7.) 16. Welcome under the lid. (4, 3.)

16. Fans do. (7).

19. Put on a helmet and eat in the wind. (7.) 22. " He had often eaten oysters, but had never had enough " (-). (7.) 24. All the girls in the old song were. 2'. Guen in a serpentine form. (7.) 21,. Buchan wrote a book of them. (7.)

29. Found among the things with which the radio may afflict us daily. (5.)

30. This has no association with getting fit to run 1,760 yds. (5, 4.) -.1. Measures at the back. (5.) 32. Requires new wine. (5, 4.)

DOWN

1. Dog that behaves like a pit. (50 2. Prone to paint. (S.)

3. Bully and biscuits, very, often, (7.) 4. Thundering black mineral- (7I-. 5. What can one get at in a hurry (7.) 0'. He turns my French gloves inside out. (7.) 7. Come to this door boys for 3, says

the bugle. (9.) •

8. It seems unlikely that Hcreward the Wake would have. (9.) 12. Hertfordshire crow. (7.)

14. Slip up about a small enclosure. (7.)

16. Social ambition started by a man with a palindromic vehicle. (9.) 17. A girl alto (snag.). (9.)

20. 'They make it difficult to tell who's who. (7.) 21. The weight Is constant. (7.)

22. The danger in this weapon is con- cealed. (7,) 23. Sly chin grown herbal. (7.)

27. Here we get up about the lubricant. 28. Shelter in the street from the wet. (5.)