"THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 227 [A Book Token for

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ACROSS

I. A self-contained word, no doubt, and where to find it.

6. We must be, or die, said Wordsworth. io. Study to depart.

it. Occidental jump.

12. Unwilling, as it were.

13. One can't get lower.

14. Bright patches.

16. The tragic muse in paint.

18. Ruth's role.

20. No germs for them.

22. A man of the world, as it were.

24. Crazy puss. (5, 4.) 26. Passed in salutation. (4, 2, 3.) 27. Dearth, unfortunately.

28. " Unhappywhose common -, breath's a sigh Which they would stifle." (Wordsworth.)

29. His liberality is not in vain but in vein. (5, 5.)

DOWN

a. It gives t ac. a start.

2. An arresting painter.

3. Bought in Fetter Lane, perhaps, or Bond Street.

4. The old one having been crashed?

5. Sharers of bacon. • 7. See 20 dn.

8. Youth doesn't, sang Shakespeare.

9. Dan in bog here, perhaps. zs. The cricketer might not be a welcome guest.

17. Bowler's repetition. (4, 5.) 18. The rose-grower's hunt?

19. Fashion x7.

20, 7. Where riders find the no-over-

. taking rule inevitable. (5, 2, 5.)

2t. Not so loquacious as the name suggests.

23. Rare and refreshing fruit indeed. 25. One mustn't.