24 MAY 1945, Page 21

THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 324

ACROSS

1.'" Atone she-cuts and binds the grain

And sings a strain." (Words- worth.) (to.)

6. The dimensions of a siege. (4.) 9. Measuring the depth again. (to.) to. Run, but it isn't cricket. (4.) 12. Evaluate. (6.)

13. "Prosper this , keep it from civil broils, Combat with adverse planets! " (Shakespeare.) (5.)

16. A dam hippo is found in this order. (9.)

19. I competed with somebody much overgrown. (5.)

20. But probably they seem to pass slowly. (5.) 21. The gnotte's confused in a musical composition. (5, 4.)

22. " Musk that gentler on the spirit

lies Than eyelids upon eyes." (Tennyson.) (5.) 23. "I make the sunbeams dance Against my sandy shallows." (Tenny- son.) (6.) 25. A well-known literary aspirant. (4.)

29. Loose-leaf books, old style. (10.) 30. The will perhaps, legally or other- wise. (4.) 31. How to perform a walking-on part. (to.)

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1. His long innings is ending. '(4-) 2. But it doesn't necessarily make the shoes enduring. (4.) 3 This can be looked for in a piano unsuccessfully. (5.) 4. This hopping doesn't interest brewers. (s.) 5. View. (9.) 7. Poison? (Anag.) (to.) 8. Theirs isn't the " Great White Way " in New fork, but they go into trans- ports all the same. (6, 4.) t t." A maid whom there were none to And very few to love." (Wordsworth.) (6.) 14. Exaggerated like a deep-sea catch. (so.)

15. A sort of possessively significant ad- dress. (to.) 17. There may be eleven here or fifteen. (6.) 18. The batsman seems utterly dismissed. (3, 3, 3.) 24. All together, abroad. (5.) 25. One can make it alright with Eve. (5.) 26. Ong of the chosen people. (4.)

27. How to observe the Spey. (4.)