The Spectator" Crossword No. 207

BY ZENO

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ACROSS 1. Fortunately, these male flirts don't live up to their name !

10. This stone is a means of entrance or exit.

12. This bird is having its dangerous season !

15. Part of a theatre in which a coffer is kept.

17. Emmet.

18. The fighting spirit has gone out of Madras !

19. The game father has to play when the family gets through reading the news?

22. Historic troopers.

24. By means of.

25. c.

26. Absence of' reserve in de- scribing the immoral.

28. " He must have a long spoon, that must with the Devil."

29. Suitable headwear for a skeleton ?

31. This makes me stingy.

32. "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil . . . "

33. Plant suggested by a red- haired person I-

34. Execution by drowning.

35. Plundered.

DOWN 1. Lukewarm in religion or politics.

2. This kind of redistributor is full of melody 3. rev. This conductor is an ill-bred 'fellow.

4. Memento.

5. rev. Never makes a fur.

6. Biblical character who had a fortune !

7. rev. Part often run to earth ?

8. " no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my . . in for- getfulness ? "

9. I trim ten (snag.).

11. Needed to make a corn. parison.

13. My first is unchecked in 34, my second in 19 across.

14. Perhaps if you add one thickness or strand.

16. The kind of stroke neither Oxford nor Cambridge would wish in its boat !

19. What you might describe an inhabitant of a harbour as ?

20. 45 inches in an automobile 21. Place where you could easily get stung !

23. rev. Lout.

27. A measure which became famous in the Crusades ?

29. " He plants hr.s footsteps in the. . .

And rides upon the storm."

30. He wrote " Ulalume."