"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 337
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ACROSS
1. A- feast set the wrong way round. (so.) 7. Holloway seems the place for this means of travel. (4.)
9. It found in petroleum, but not at once. (6.)
so. Flower correcting the poets' state- ment that certain high-flyers sing. (8.) s. A united group habitually sat upon. (9-) 12. Turned straw. (50 14. Centrally palindromic fruit. (7.) 16. There is no sparing the "rod in his pursuit. (7.)
18. I'd a lyre, and how I played it. (7.) iv. In a mild way. (7.)
2.1. "If you prick us, do we not -? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? " (Shakespeare.) (5.) 22. Eating like the character who dis- covered Miss Pross was deaf. (9.)
26. Making runs, old style. (B.) 27. It sounds lllte a pre-war report about Bradman. (6.)
'8. "Richmond is on the -. There let him sink, and be the - on him! " (Shakespeare.) (4.) 29. Cede number. (Anag.) (to.) DOWN 2- Where one depends largely on a fluke for security. (9.)
3. Misgiving. (5.)
4. Yell a V-tune at last. (to.) c. Useless to say he doesn't count. (6.) 6. Yellow cornelian. (4.)
7. Confused ants split by passion. (9.) 8. The greatest stress. (5.) 13. Rarities are laid to happen once in it. (to.) t5. They certainly give one a hearing. (9.) 17. Nile agent. (Anag.) (9.) 20. It fits a weed to a t, if taken the wrong way. (6.) 22. " It's very odd that sailormen should wear those things so -." (Bar- ham.) (5.) 24. As the speed alters. (5.) 25. This apple isn't. (4.)