" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 402

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ACROSS

a. What a game for junior counsel (6, 2, 6.)

I. Face up to it ? This is where I drop out. (5.) 9. A penny in the moor, come round to complete it. (9.) to. Characteristic of the spurious MS, but an asset in old iron. (4, 6.) is. Flying letters, with air mail, too, perhaps. (4.) 13. Little brothers, it changes. (6.) 55. Wells gave her another name. (8.) 17. What to do to make people feel nettled. (8.) 18. Not without cause. (6.) 20. Cornered No, all right. (4.) 21. He discloses truth in a classical goose. (I0.) 24. I try a slip (snag.). (9.) 25. Name of the returning wanderer. (5.)

26. "-; let joy be unconfined" (Byron). (2, 4, 3, 5.)

DOWN

a. Four feature-writers having already been sacked? (5, 9.)

2. Author of the " Pharsalia-" (5.)

3. How goods are sold, or a dearth of them is indicated. (3, 2, 5.)

4. Simon illuminated at school, almost.

(8-) 5. An extract from Savonarola. (4.)

6. One can make noise come out of it.

(9-) 7. Do dealings with him make one able to pay a roya ty (8, 6.) 9. It is easily shocked at harvest-time.

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X2. " Ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,

Confusion worse -" (Milton).

(to.) 14. One of the Bath chaps. (9.) x6. Miles of poetic character. (8.) t9. Said the maiden in " Excelsior." (4.) 22. " No more was seen the - form divine " (Pope). (5.) 23. Where one may graduate at fifty-one. (4.)