THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 237 IA Book Token for one

guinea will be awarded w the sender of the first correct s6lutton of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 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 zit!. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can-be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution end the name of the winner will be published hi the following issue.]

ACROSS

I. Fight emmets.

7. " Thou wast not born for death, Immortal --." (Keats.) 9. Bridges found it clear and gentle and had long loved it.

to. Where good spirits are held under lock and key.

is. These lowly creatures make a material contribution to dress.

12. It might describe a helmet or an

article.

14. Miss Maria Ward's married name.

,6. Walk round the hostelry.

38. Might be lions, Ma!

19. Ways they have on the frontier.

21. Bad as she is, she seems the right one

to pull the strings.

23. Little Tommy thought the Irishman went into winter quarters.

26. A very imposing slide.

27. Not the homely sort.

28. "- too expressive to be blue, Too lovely to be grey." (Arnold.) 29. Well developed teams, very shattering.

DOWN

2. Horsemen who make ours tired.

3. A third of Tennyson's address to the sea.

4. Time to pull oneself together.

5. " We have - to stand and stare." (W. H. Davies.) (2, 4.) 6. Half a ;ail,-either half.

7. South American dandy' (6, 3.) S. It has to be taken with its opposite.

13. Meaning that the chief accountant is

a mere cipher)

15. Pious catchers, perhaps.

17. Settlement on a river, but a single structure.

20. Philosophic racehorse.

22. An empty collaborator.

24. No ruthless mother-in-law.

25. Perhaps this horse does go like an arrow.