is THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 455

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1. Do I bar salaams ? (snag.). (13.) 2. This bird has so cautious a tail. (9.) 10. " - Roussel est bon enfant (5.) II. But surely the miners don't I (5.)

12. Miss Soria Henie, for example ? (9.)

13. This arc starts with the fast and last letters. (7.)

15. So one gets stiff turning on the bal- cony. (7.) • 17. Seville, possibly, to opera-goers. (7.) 19. King of Ashanti. (7.) 21. Plain pose in armour. (CO 23. "No lapse of - can canker Love" (Tennyson). (5.) 24. Make allowances for weeds. (5.)

25. Musical performances, so I return to the speaker. (9.) 26. They yield their notes at a stretch. (13.)

DOWN

2. The wrong sort of alms causes doubt. (9.)

3. Tar at home ? No, gone to the boxing. (5.)

4. Nationality of fabulous castle- builders. (7.)

5. Staggered hours may make such furniture more generally used. (7.) 6. What one might do with the week- end joint if it lasted until Monday. (9-) 7. It was probably done up. (5.) • 8. Ruskin's were in Venice. (6.) 9. Was it the employees he called on

to peak Cal his behalf ? (5 )

Unlike most, this kind of return Is welcome. (9.)

16. It's better wken the little devil's on the move. (9.)

17. In the end the bird sounds almost sorry. (6.) 18. Offensive. (7.)

19. Such a beast lifts a paw and looks where it is going. (7.) 20. They suggest a lot of entertainment. (5.)

22. Runner from Finland. (5.) 23. "He that is by - now Sees the water-sapphires gleaming" (Kendall) (5.) 14.