" THE * SPECTATOR " CR OS SWORD No. 298 IA
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, December 5th. _Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. sumtp. SO14110114 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.] it 9. Not quite the pick of the toolshed, 0 done. (4, 3-) II. Red miners. (Anag.) (9.) t3. Elusive examples of Iberian archi- to. People used to be told to get this is. A Companion of Honour takes a
5. Common experience of the pursuer of t. A modish sort of place in years gone
vessel to make another. (5.)
by, perhaps. (7.) a fleet quarry. (7.) but very like it. (7.) ACROSS
tecture. (7.) SOLUTION TO
6. A ruler of Athens. (7.) 9. Star bogged in the cruet. (7.)
22 What reveille is intended to do. (5.) 3. Such a manner as is engendered in Sing-Sing? (9.)
25. By inference it should not be used for linen in public. (7.) 26. Pages of the past. (7.)
27. Colour of a tan car. (7.)
28. Dwells. (7.) DOWN
I. Fine linen. (7.)
2. Panama, for example. (7.)
3. The fleet under trouble. (5.) In 4. Orcades of long ago. (7.)
5. His manuscript is introduced by a little science. (7.) 6. Birds that give talks on victory? (9.) 20. A flavouring, and I see in it. (7.) 21. One way, perhaps, of writing female 18. It sounds like a large wine vessel. (7.) 24. " Of a' the - the wind can blew." 14. He married Amy Robsart. (9.) 16. Whatever it was, it wasn't a walk- 17. It may be found in cups, sir. (7.) 19. I bisect a Cornish saint. (7.) 7. Rude. (7.) 8. Big as a lost ship. (7.) doctors. (7.) (Burns.) (5.) over, evidently. (4, 3.)