"The Spectator" Crossword No. 173

BY ZENO

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ACROSS 1. Fruit which is unripe at first but soon ages.

8. In 5.

11. This should be answered in an irregular manner.

15. " Michael bid sound Th' ... trumpet ; through the vast of Heav'n It sounded."

17. In 21.

18. rev. The godly part of burglary.

19. This kind of soup is artifi- cially nourished !

21. Fine white clay.

23. All this kind of fruit needs, is rain.

24. Part of a verse.

25. If you are clever at guessing a riddle, you will pro- bably get this.

28. " Promises are like . . made to be broken."

30. Part of everyone's wages.

31. In 11.

32. Fish.

33. My reel tangled inside.

36. What makes a musician run down !

DOWN 2. Kind of thing rarely encountered.

3. During the finish it becomes stifling.

4. rev. A famous old woman lived in here.

5. Arabic notation. 6. In the above.

7. rev. Part of the chimney which ran away 8. Going quietly.

9. My sonny (anag.).

10. Incentive to a frollo

12. rev. See 6.

13. Now again.

14. Vacillated.

16. rev. Suffering division ?

20. A little more than a portion.

22. Train serving stations of district.

26. " let my . .. feet never fail To walk the studious Clois- ters pale."

27. "he bath an excellent good name.

His excellence did , . , it, . ere he had it."

29. "great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take -and sometimes . "

34. In 3.

35. End of 9.