"The Spectator" Crossword No.ij

BY XANTRIPPE.

[A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct- solution of this week's cross-word puzzle to- be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Cross-word Puzzle," and should be received not later than first post on Tuesday. No envelopes will be opened before noon an Tuesday. The name of the winner will be published in our next issue.] ACROSS

1. The Red idea wealth requires.

9. Austere with painful end. 11: A penny is an oath ?

12. Certain geese once fulfilled their function (two words).

13. Conan Doyle's Clarke has dropped an II, and can be seen through.

15. A lady takes first place in this happening.

16. Sham spite (snag.). 17. Method of producing moving pictures known long before the cinema.

21. It's hazardous to dip into a pocket after a collision (two words).

23. That of Venice affords no grouse-shooting.

24. Epithet for the vermipetal bird (two words). .

26. Gossiped. 27. The tin hes genuine Bur.

28. Official with a mean inside. DOWN

2. East Prussia, for example.

3. -Little Timothy is in the nation, but I come first.

4. What the 9 man does not do to himself.

6. Scottish island.

6. Rail. of what 7. Pantomime villain s illumin . sting offer (four- words .

8. Disarmers would hke to se them-reduced (two words). 10. Princess Ida barred even these men.

14. Came in.

18. Jumble the wet pots and dance.

19. Oddly enough, such breeding might produce out-and-out degeneracy (three words).

20. The Oxford thoroughfare, colloquially,. is the end of topsy-turvy religion. 22. No pison (anag.).

25. Smeary result 'of docking • publisher's puff.