THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 356

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ACROSS

t. Facing (Ir.)

9. Will he grow into a bookman? TO. Ceres. (7.) it. Rent pieces. (Anag.) (io.) 52. I dn. for example. (4.) 54. Not a capital " b " evidently. x5. Let in Edward. (8.) 57. A comb, Ida. (Anag.) (8.) 59. Provide. (5.) 22. Amusing chaps who alter the booty. (4.) 23. Blues,-but not in the sky. (W.) 26. It's a bit of everything. (7.) 27. Kipling derided the players of it. (7.) 28. Dent in purse. (Anag.) (it.)

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x. Print the fifth letter. (5.)

2. What is likely to succeed the period of clothing shortage? (7.)

3. Overthrow, but not at 27. (so.) 4. Prairie wolf. (6.) 5. Past principals? (3, 5.)

6. " Beneath those rugged , that yew-tree's shade." (Gray.) (4.) 7. It may be unconditional. (9.)

8. 'Tis about art reversed. (6.) 13. All one can do with this is to stick it. (10.)

14. Might be associated with doe or dough. (9.) 16. If Peter's in ti _ trenches. 8.)

x8. It certainly is most attractive. (6.)

20. " Continuous as the stars that shine

And on the Milky Way." (Wordsworth.) (7.)

21. He could go green without changing colour. (6.) 24. Absent Edward. (5.) 25. Essential z6 of an offensive sweep. (4-)