" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 246

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ACROSS

1. The last person by whom one could with to be browned off.

6. A guinea for digging.

to. All for a change.

IL It almost sounds like a mature ideal -German citizen in the banking world.

12. It's panacea (anag.).

13. Scene of the first eviction.

14. It often does with " finis." ,6. Refutes.

8. Up and down, present and past.

20. Where little Diana is austere. 22. Found in the great open spaces. 24. Do they depend on flukes?

26. Clean confusion in the way.

27. Buchan gave it to adventurers.

28. By implication they should be secret places.

29. Few celebrate their own.

DOWN

2. Poet who added leaves to the trees.

3. Sekip.

4. Marlborough took it in 1708.

5. This egg was always a slightly stale ioke.

7. Often one finds little change in this.

8. " I said-!-Thesi, -, since 'tis so." (R. Browning.)

9. They're simply ghastly.

15. Sousa kept on producing one, but it didn't affect the calendar.

t7. His methods may seem " elementary, my dear Watson," now.

19. The clan is confused when Eve is about.

20. People do, generally speaking. t. To be this one must be original.

23. " 0 it is a gentle thing Beloved from pole to pole! " (S. T. Coleridge.' 25. Attack at Hollywood. •