tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 308 1..1 Book Token
for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct hi;,:an of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, FTh :wry 13th. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and en.,i bear the word " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a aid. stamp. sonaions 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.]
ACROSS
2. " Give me my - of ,quiet, M staff of faith to walk upon." (Raleigh.) (7, 5.)
9. When the umpire calls the first part
it's useless to do the second. (7.) it. Where to buy cleaning gear. (7.)
H. A little bird gets it with the blues. (5.) 13. Sing, droll little peers. (9.) 14. Was Noah one of his ancestors? (9.) 15. The first one-man submarine. (5.) 17. It should be held. (5.)
A Biblical pen-name. (9.) -- 20. Timbre. (9.) 22. Hoped to change a vestment. (5.)
24. Automatic opponents of pitch and toss. (7.) 25. Essentially a knodt-about performer. (6.) 27. Sardine in can. (Anag.) )
DOWN
z. Lamb's family when he grew up? (9.)
2. A breezy place, perhaps. (3.) 3. Daddy's place in the field, maybe. (4, 3.) 4. Old Pontefract. (7.) 5. A celebrated chairman, so to speak (t 1.) 6. Fleet under the field. (5.) 7. Where to go to and fro in a ship. (4.) 8. Almost the source of fresh eggs, one
might think. (8.) • 12. A poet's resort- before and after sun- burn. (22).
24. Not, as the schoolboy thought, to
change one's identity (5, 3.)
16. Yes, that MS is made of stones. (9.) 18. " For a - to fall on our meat' and on us all." (Herrick.) (7.) 29. Where to cultivate wind-instruments, Perhaps. (7.) 21. A simple soul. (5.) 23. " - as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly." (Campbell) ) (4.) 26. It had differing interests for Keats and Sir Thomas Browne. (3.)
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