"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 257

BY ZENO

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WHO'S WHO IN LITERATURE

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x. lie created a monster.

9. She spoke French "after the scale of Stratford-atte-Bow."

13. See 16. 75. A member of Mr. Greatheart's party on the way to the Celestial City. 18. The Laird o' this, celebrates the loves of Alexander Irvine and Margaret Coutts.

20. This hero of a Christmas story Is a Cheap-Jack whose little child dies in his arms while he is entertaining a crowd.

23. Shakespearean character, kidnapped in infancy by Marius. 24. See 5. 25. rev. Daughter of Count Albert of Arnheim, the Maiden of the Mist."

30. 32 DOWIL

31. Intended by Dryden for the Duchess of Marlborough. 32. See 38.

33. See 3$.

34. A thief, also known by the name - of "Nosey,"- who for a long time avoided detection by helping the police to chase innocent men.

39. A brother of Sir L.auncelot du Lac, and a Knight of the Round Table. 40. ShirleyKeeldar's governess and companion, who turns out to be Caroline Helstone's mother.

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x. The son of Alonso, King of Naples.

2. rev. See 17. 3. Beloved by Pelleas she rejects him for Gawain.

4- My first is unchecked in 2 Across, my second in 32 Across. 5. & 24. The joiner who is cast for the lion's part.

6. An Irish servant in Howard's Committee.

7. This dies creating small whirlpools. 8. Vowels.

so. A Knight of the Round Table who proves but a sorry husband, at first, to Enid.

it. Juliet gets her sleeping draught from him.

12. Boon companion of Bardolph and Pistol.

Li. Tom Pinch's landlord whose voca- tion was that of a detective.

x6. & 13. An old woman who kept a F"nmin.endingd. -school " in Our Mutual 17. TeV. & 2. Intended by Spenser for Philip II of Spain in The Faerie Queene.

59. Half move. 2r. rev. He is driven mad by his daughters. 22. & 28. A Moor, the subject of a poem by Browning. z6. rev. One of the characters in Garnmer Gurton's Needle.

27. rev. This character in Citizen of the World had a general knowledge of every subject.

28. Set 22.

29. This character is said to have been intended by Beaconsfield for a portrait of himself.

3352. and 3352. Down with 33. Attendant on Lady Fanciful in Provoked Wife.

36. M second in ACI0950 my first in 4

37. Part of a wasp.

38. & 32 Across. She spent her child- hood in the Marshalsea when her father was a prisoner.