" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 534
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ACROSS
I. This classical name is made light of. (6, 8.) 9. Signs. (7.) 11. It can be fashioned with a pencil. (7-) 12. Cheese constructed backwards. (4.) 13. Under the hill in Tennyson. (5.) 14. It's an aid to mastication. (4.) 17. " Gaily -, a gallant Knight . .." (Pee). (7.) 18. Julia s wear. (5.) 19. The lengths to which a vegetarian will go (5.)
21. Saint who wears a cape. (7.) 2
23. Those who use it must keep pegging away. (4.) 24. It may be got by one shuffling a little. (5.) 25. What a start he gave the police I (4.) 28. Lions, Ma ! (snag.). (7.)
29. " To look at things in bloom Fifty - are little room " (Housman). (7-)
30. You'll get the solution all at once. (14.)
DOWN
2.- The celebrated golfer is cheered on -or scolded. (7.)
3. " All's - then, does truth sound bitter ? " (Browning). (4.)
4. The results of his playing pretty tame. (7.)
5. Serpentine fish. (4.) 6.- Devouring beans. (7.) • 7. Barrie's Tommy was one. (14.) commonly were
8. No tree is braver (ann.). (14.)
10. Slight container in the s rect. (5.) 15. Nippy. (5.) 16. The roadmender's region. (5.) 19. It's the least you can do 1 (7.) 20. A fair figure from Milton. (7.) 21. Their products are all bunched up. (5.) 22. ' This - blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood " (Shake- speare). (7.) 26. This dye seems to have no result. (4.) 27. It may be seen in some absurd un- mapped village. (4.)
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