"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 475
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ACROSS
1. Those were the days. (5.) 4. This is what a cadet confused with hock produces. (6, 3.)
9. ',inking. (9.) 10. Osculatory fashion guide. (5.) U. Time for playing. (5.) 12. More dignified wise-cracks. (9.) 13. Most members of the vegetable kingdom might make this statement.
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16. After a high order I've gumption. (7.) 19. All gone, it might have been. (7.) 20. Signs. (7.) 21. Just what one might have expected from D'Artagnan. (9.) 24. An alternative to prune. (5.) 26. Try to make the stream work. (5.) 27. Seen Colin display it ? (9.) 28. They no longer carry the arms indicated. (9.) 29. "Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of - bear " (Gray). (5.)
DOWN
1. Barely sufficient fish to make a beam. (9.) 2. Flax. (5.) 3. The medical man seems to have had a meal. (9.) 4. Chelsea no longer south-east. (S.) 5. But the sheriff's officer might apprehend people of other nationali- ties also. (9.) 6. Keen (5.) 7. Evidently Cassius did not believe that the fault lay here. (9.) 8. This lock might or might not need oiling. (5.) 14. A seal's dip (anag.). (9.) 15. By deduction liquor under lock and key does. (9.) 17. A highly complicated situation. (9.) 18. Shiny apes (anag.). (9.) 21. The laughing-stock of patience ? (5.) 22. Bird from Seoul. (5.) 23. Simplifies. (5.) 25. A lot missing from the Round Table. (5.)
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