"The Spectator" Crossword No. 26

By XANTH IPPE.

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ACROSS

1. This bent to the negro for unwillingness.

8. Good for the haii, but sounds like a false literary bear.

. 9. Sick William for bad faith.

11. This was recently hard to find in the U.S.A. (two words).

12. Carry off (rev.). • , 13. Applauded.

15. Attackers.

16. Make or Mode.

19. You are out if this bit of wood is displaced (two words).

21. Architecture has seven, says Ruskin.

22. Useless to the prohibitionist.

24. A radishy mixture is char- acteristic of the C.LD.

25. Start late, end with the Deity, for a French statesman.

26‘. Phrase apparently disliked in certain academic circles (three words).

DOWN • 1. Figs, cruel lady (snag.).

2. Vegetable.

3. The Lady of Lyons, so to speak. '

4. Son of Sergeant Meryll in ' The Yeomen. 5. Nor this nor 6. Steering.

7. Opening.

10. Prime Minister and Prime Minister's uncle (two words).

14. Giving out again.

17. Japanese noble who, plurally, rhymes with as English oath.

18. Two contradictory words make an impatient ex- clamation.

19. Madman.

20. I stab R.A. (anag.). 23. Loup this is a were-wolf in France.

that.