28 FEBRUARY 1936, Page 50

" The Spectator " Crossword No. 179

BY ZENO

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ACROSS

1. " Just are the ways of God, And . . . to men."-Milton. 10. " now weary, stale, flat, and' . Seem to me all thc uses of this world t "

14. " Wherever God erects a house of . . . , The Devil always bads a chapel

"there."-Defoe: • 16. " I sometimes think that never blows so red

The Rose as where some burled Caesar . . ."

17. " Now spurs the lated traveller apace, To . . . the timely (29)."

18. " Too early seen unknown, and known too - .

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20. " A . . . y chance, that oft decides

• the fate

Of mighty monarchs."-Thomson.

21. " oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The - . of darkness tell us truths."

23. Fringe.

24. res. 5.

25. " The good die first, And they whose hearts are . -asrsumuser dust

Bum to the socket." _ 26. " This world is all a . . . show, For man's illuslyn given" Moore.

30. reo. In 4.

31. " God made the country, and man.

made the . . - - -

82. " Yes, by Saint Amite ; and ;„- shall be hot 1' the month too.". 33. rev. In '8.

84. " crude at the surface, .•. . at the COM, Her fruits would fall before- her spring were o'er."

35. Wilful Bring.

DOWN

1. " 'Tis with our . . . as our watches, DOW

Go just alike, yet etch believes his own."

2. " Prouder than rustling in , . . silk."

8. "11 Winter comes, can . . . be far behind " 4. " batch, then, 0 catch the . . hour ;

improve each moment as it flies." 5. Vowels'.

6. See above.

7. A famous kind of ballads.

8. " Striking the . - chain where- with we are darkly bound."- Byron 9. "The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay, A. . by night, a Chest of drawers

• day."

11. ' Yet do I thy nature: It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

12. " The . . . autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime."

18. "Means not, but' . . . round about a meaning ;

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, bat prose run mad." 15. rev. " Then . . . scan your brother Mau, Still gentler, sister woman."-Sums 19. rev: " damned spot . . . , I say I "

20. Firm book ?

22. " What song the ...s sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, thougH' puzzling questions, are ' not beyond all conjecture."

27. rev. " Tbe . . for all his feathers, was a-saM."

28. " Shut, shut the door, good John! . fatigu'd, I-said ; . . up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead."

20. "See'17-' . •