" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 285

BY ZEN()

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ACROSS ACROSS x. Gives you a picturesque entree everywhere ?

9. Toast gives this edge.

ICI. Well-read animals.

14. This kind of person would be on the fence in Germany ! i6. rev. Certainly less to wag if it's cut short.

18. rev. " For sufferance is the badge of all our . . . "

19. No place to grow stone- break, I shouldn't think !

20. Fertile storage ?

23. This ice is a warning.

24. Highly strung form of grammar.

25. Mostly a meagre shelter.

27. The delight of a child.

28. Furniture decoration. 3o. See 5.

31. Regal part of the head.

32. Blood-poisoning. DOWN 2. Fierce kind of pear.

3. Fertile part of chimney.

4. rev. This bird is like a clergyman.

5 with 30. The very place where motorists generally can't.

6. An actor can't act without this.

7. Where investigations are car- ried on about a cake ?

8. Toss treat (snag.).

9. What the wan child wears ? to. Cajoling place in Ireland. I1. Sounds as if you didn't know what tree it is.

12. An imported house.

13. rev. Birds that go in sets of three.

15. These desires, though sus- pended at first, are strong.

17. " A woman's . . . : I think him so, because I think him so."

21. Identified.

22. rev. Writer of verse mostly a writer of verse.

26. rev. This urn contains a god. 29. Vowels.