THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 555

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ACROSS

I. No doubt the medan hopes the spirit will prove so worldly. (13.) 10 Lapse with a warm finials. (7.) 11. Camel's woolly cousin. (7.) 12. It will be tomorrow. (5.) 13. It sounds as if the composer left his mark. (5.) 14. Get out. There's nothing in it ! (S.) 16. Time to return a manuscript to us. (7.1 17. l'oisonous part of play. (7.) lb. Cockney greeting from the sentry. (7.) 21. Back-scratcher. (7.1 23. She might be found in a motor, a pullman or a hansom. (S.) 24. Man, rarely heard of unless hungry. (5.) 26. " 'Me - of England is her all in all " (Tennyson). (5.) 27. No bend for a bob. (7.) 28. Pin-up versifier. (7.) 29. Back to earth, maybe.

DOWN

2. The realm of Peter Doody. (7.) 3. Rough stuff, this paper. (5.) 4. This sum needs clarification. (7.) S. " She is -, therefore must be loved I " (Shakespeare). (7.) 6. Don't try to keep wine in them 1 (S.)

1. Now ring (snag.). (7.)

I. It wouldn't prevent the feathers flying. (7, 6.) 9. I curl into a mat (mini- (13.) (6, 2, 5.) 14 She moves with greaser Ire .storn than her consort. (5.) 15. " The great ocean of - lay all undiscovered before me " (Isaac • Newton). (5.) 19. Explosive sardine. (3, 4.) 20. High order in a French river. (7.) 21. Ungranunatical reference to the gangster's shot-gun at paving. (4, 3.) 22. The craft of Autolycus. (7.) 25. Keep on tearing. (5.) 26. The solution of 15 couldn't be. (S.)