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ACROSS

Expensive views purchased by Mac- beth. (2 wds.) (6, 8.) Dose in joy at the slaying of the labberwock. Gin a hand in the belfry.

Is retreat, the prima donna's. very

ImPing! New and cheeky. --, who made thee? " in- quired Blake.

Ore in ten. (3 wds.) (4, 2, 7.)

Politic as puns. (Anag.) Fete for the sailor.

frotechnic badger. '• . and the — by the wall Would be half full of water and ms." (Stevenson.) Pas word abroad.

Many a yarn is spun round this.

In this case the depth of beauty be-

acmes more impressive.

DOWN

lan has a heavy bovine weight to Appointment by a palm tree?

°noses implements.

'A little, thin flowery border round, ESL 0 t MPdy "S ayL the bbosses. .D. Johnson's address. fin' rose in 1848. -

9. Get little by little round the rodent. 14. It's merely a game. 15. He sounds as if he's left the island. r6. This will give you a shock! r8. They indicate that the refrigerator isn't working. 20. Controversial. 21. Where Ada puns. 24. St. Malo's river. 26. Earthy aspect of a churchwarden. 27. A long drink for a cuckoo.

28. But it's going down here I