THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD NO. 663

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Across

1. Medico in a coat of battle. (6.)

4. Poet who got in the gravy. (8.) 10. lust a breathing space. (7.) 11. Face value in rhyme. (7.) 12. Cardiac trouble as diagnosed by Cupid.

13. Not repealed in she concert programme. (4) 15. It's noon. and ideas change. (7.)

17. The medico reappears in a mixed attempt. (7.)

19. Warm the bird. (7.) 21. Is he so called because he knows the ropes? (7.) 23. "- may have had their goose Cooked by tobacco juice." (Calverley). (4.) 24. Milton's cap (anag.) (10.) 27 I get on after the return of a large hook. (7.) ' 28 It just comes back to broken china. (7.) 29. "They have their day and cease to be." (8s 30. It might have been snuffed out. (6.)

Down

I. Poking fun in a limited way gets the bird. (9.)

2. Spoil the vote; is it archaic? (7.)

3. it sounds almost like a trophy of the POSE. (10.) 5. These well-meaning people should be skilled in anagrams. (93 6. " Frantic boast and foolish - (Kip- ling). (4)

7. Guiana's the place to tind th its. (7.) 8. Soil (5.)

9. Simply water. (4.)

14. Obit in gaol (anag.) (10.)

16 1 he tramp who organised twilight? (9.) 18. Where the ordinary rules of land measurement don't apply. (9.)

20. Against a Scots exclamation and where. (7 ) 22. "The man bath - done. and - more will do " (Coleridge). (7.) 23. But it is more associated with railway- men than sailors. (5.) 25. Little child but not a simpleton. (4.) 26. Stable company. (4.)