" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 215

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ACROSS

1. The flower of the R.A.F. perhaps. 5. She doesn't sound a stable girl. Si They had all gone, said Lamb. 9. Longfellow made a fire of it.

1. Nowadays they have to reckon with artificial competition.

"Curiouser and curiouser," she cried.

3. It demonstrates the cockiness of tailors.

4. Engagements round college. S. A star duet got moist.

1. Less wasps but more dangerous.

3. There's no debating this. 5. Not so many at work.

7. Fit, like a huntsman. (2, 3, 4.)

8. Showing that the beak may be the whole bird.

:9. Inst.

. Are they, like journeys, really necessary?

DOWN

1. They provide openings for people in the know; it's a matter of com- 5 bination.

" The votes of veering crowds are not the things that arc more -." (Watson.) Is. Pig in noise (the litter's, perhaps!). 4. Lasted.

5. The colour bar-you have been warned! (3, 5.) 6. I moan when she capsizes.

7. The spoken are usually much longer than the written. a Broken stein.

13. Rich coast abroad. (5, 4-) 15. „She's in her seventies. 16. We do now we are rationed; but it's not as dismal as all that!

17. " Ravished with the whistling of a name, See -damned to ever- lasting fame! '(Pope..)

so. His anagram on 5 down would be stupid.

20. A moderate one will 25 liquor than some others.

22. Required for the second front, and the first.

24. Bury.

26. "Grace was in all her - Heaven in her eye." (Milton.)