" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 577
[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, April 25th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 2]d. 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 will be published in the following issue.]
ACROSS
1. No spices scattered round if I take the cat (14.)
10. Stacks of men are (7.) 11. Not a rat in the place (7.) 12. Poet's problematical dupes (5.) 13. The game seems a sort of blend of beer and whisky (3, 6.) 14. See, Tarka returns in school 1 (7.) 16. " A heart grown cold, a - grown grey in vain " (Shelley) (4.) 19. I am something written after (4.) 20. Such things are easily detected by people of good taste (7.) 23. Perhaps they don't cause quite the romantic heart-burning that once they did (3, 6.) 25. It takes the men's side (5.) 26. Autolycus would have enjoyed delving into this (7.) 27. Not the Roman type though of the Same nationality (7.) 28. The officer gives battle, more in- dustrial than industrious, perhaps (7, 7.)
DOWN
2. Ducal magician (8.) 3. Life, said H. J. Byron, is too short for it (5.) 4. They are frequently Cast some distance by their owners (9.) 5. Distressed by the surgeon ? (3, 2.) 6. A suggestion of inconstancy in making do (9.) 7. One art seems here to have been rather overdone (6.) 8. Tranquillise (6.) 9. What Cleopatra did not say is under- foot (7.) 15. It was the Gait in the City going west, and might come back (6, 3.) 16. Was it sent to the barber's or the laundry ? (4, 5.) 17. " Then to breakfast with what you have " (Shakespeare) (8.) 18. This direction may be hung up when illuminated (7.) 21. This delicacy will not be found at Croft's (3, 3.) 22. The inventor turns up to finalise Rugger (6.) 24. It will be found in a stick of cinnamon almost always (5.) 25. A hip's dislocated (5.)
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