".THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 172 [A Book Token for one

guinea will bs awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes •houll be received not later than first post that day and must bear the wo a "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zici. 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 di: following issue.)

ACROSS

1. The power of the Navy and what it

fivhts with and where. (5, 3, 4.) JO. ViTtierewith the Scots get their cash

in advance.

It. The man to figure it out.

12. Twenty hundred-weight of super- fluous words.

13. The counter call.

15. Might they be described as sparring partners?

16. One should quickly get on the scent here.

20. More likely a fox watch than a dog watch, though a horse.

21. It describes a come-down.

25. Mis-fits.

26. Relation of those whose mother has husbanded her resources.

28. Whereby a murder may be over- heard if praised% arranged.

29. Scrap scrap. (3, 4.) 30. Make up a fire on a river.

DOWN

2. So I led her.

3. The solitary chap doesn't get any younger.

4. DO this 110 get a bean. 5. Beast of dismal progress.

6. Assists.

7. Not a brief bag, though what it con- tains is brief.

8. Initially like the author of "Holy Deadlock."

9. Wine upset on the Indian Civil Service! It must be the heat!

(5, 2, 5.) 14. Red man, alas! slightly confused.

17. City which came to life in Dickens.

18. The mode of today. to. It seems a temporary settlement. zz. It is exasperating to be faced with this when one has that sinking feeling.

23. No arch, but he got across all the Same.

24. The call of the wild.

27. This is fiund in one of Arnold's best poems.