"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 514 [A Book Token for one
guinea will be awarded so the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, February 8th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. 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.]
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1. People who lose their heads would be impossible clients for them. (13.) 9. " Here's a - with the seal of Caesar " (Shakespeare). (9.) 10. Collins made him count. (5.) 11. The ghost insisted that Horatio and Marcellus should. (5.)
12. Longfellow made a fire of it. (9.)
13. Ace duet (snag.). (7.) 15. Ability to do both parts is essential for gossip. (7.)
17. Timely records. (7.) 19. Title which became a casualty in 1914. (7.)
21.Oscar Oman has the recipe for them.
(9.) •
r54. It takes fat to do this. (5.) . What's this about ? Old style. (5.) . If he makes eyes it is with no flirta- tious intent. (9.) 26. On which the spinner or the bull may have cause to congratulate himself. (4, 2, 3, 4.)
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2. Character in the Rugby pantomime. (9.)
3.
miming bottle-label. (5.)
4. If the umpire can count he should know when. (7.) 5. Extracted from a chorister without hesitation. (7.) 5. Tea if aunt makes it. (9.) 7. It takes a poet to embrace a donkey.
I. Its child is fair of face. (6.) 9. Not really stones. (5.) 14. What Collins wrote and when. (5, 4.) 16. New look bathing costumes. (4, 5.) 17. They take off a good deal. (6.) 18. How races are started ensuring sud- den departure. (4, 3.) 19. Knockouts possibly thus shut after- wards. (7.) 20. Not, as might be thought, the people of Chosen. (5.) 22. An ingredient of carbolic or fusil oil. (5) 23. " 0 for a - of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne 1 " (Scott). (5.)
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