THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 446
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ACROSS
1. It doesn't take a brave conductor to do this. (4, 3, 5.)
9. Altered altered. (7.) 10. This goes before slinging one's hook. (7.) 11. " Through tattered clothes small vices do appear ; and furred gowns hide all " (Shakespeare). (5.) 13. He should be expert at 10. (9.) 14. Otherwise other harm. (9.) 15. Cry to the health resort for a cavalry- man. (5.) 17. Source of muslin. (5.) 18. These are associated with four holes not eighteen. (9.)
20. What sort of people are we ? (9.) 22. Holy men of the East. (5.)
24. Useless to say this is no laughing matter. (7.) 25. He took part in a grave disturbance. (7.) 27. In these one's securities should live up to their name. (4, 8.)
DOWN
I. Irritating trivia. (9.) 2. How one pays for the fish. (3.) 3. A night in the theatre. (7.) 4. Take it to heart, so to speak.
5. What can be made of this ? Anvil, surely. (11.) 6. A manner of speaking. (5.)
7. It would mean porridge if it got rbout. (4.) 8. Nice change in ages. (a.)
(7.) 12. A suggestion of erudition in the hive. (8, 3.) 14. Sheep fleeced for a shophar. (9.) 16. Base agent (anag.). (9.) 18. It wasn't really Gordon's nationality. (7.) 19. High priest divides pet dog to make an opera. (7.) 21. For him the ground was doubly cold. (5.) 23. How was the seamstress ? Tolerable. (4.) 26. Found in 19. (3.)
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