The "Spectator" Crossword No. Io

BYXANTIIIPPE.

ACROSS 1. Government Department that suggests a counter (three words).

7. Oddly enough, this ten- ' deny in art is now out of

• date.

9. Incarnation with sailorly end.

10. Wield, or is it only the Cockney's play ?

12. The world's most prolific author, after Anon. .

13. Sang of Heraclitus.

14. Bun rite (anag.). 16. The result of fire in father rules in the East. 17.. Italian old master. 19. Though boasted, it is mostly in tatters.

21. Leaning. 22. " 0 dura messorum -." (Horace.) 23. Heart of heart.

26. " not, in -s to com- mand auci.ess."

28. I cut Nero (snag. ).

29. Shows with a devilish start.

DOWN

1. Sheridan character who sug- gests cheap land (two-words)

2. Town of India.

3. Refuse.

4. The new firm.

5. Clever, but suggests the - - Continental rule of the road misgendered.

6. Two letters Sail) liberation from thinness.

8. The Armentieres one was popular with the British army. 10. Might be archbishop or ape. 11. Scottish courtesy title.

14. Cambridge man in Oxford.

15. Seldom in part.

18. An asinine diet.

20. A funny fellow on a sheep makes a Napoleonic battle. 24. The race-meeting is a con- fused opera.

25. Mixed nuts to stupefy. 27. A piece of toast is the place for hops.

SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD NO. 9

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