THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 707
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Sport arising front reading the news in a high wind. (5, 5.)
6. We turn to the sergeant-major for character. (4.)
9. Daisy's cent. (Anag.) (10.) 10. A knotty point in the timber trade.
(4.) • 12. Robert sometimes takes this plant. (4.) 13. The friar's dances 7 (9.) 15. The use of it may lead to one's getting let In. (8.) 16. Every Irishman, the saying goes, has one in his head. (6.) 18. Saucy dances. (6.) 20, It must have happened. (8.) 23. A wealth of meaning, so to speak. (9.) 24. He sounds a mountainous Dickensian. (4.)
26. Den of the tune in 17rancc. (4.)
27. Hardly a suitable setting for the same author's "Green Mansions." (6. 4.) 28. Isn't tile seamstress so fit ? (4.) 29. Sat in trees. (Anna.) (10.)
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" A fine - gentleman that's all perfume." (Cowper.) (4.)
2. Gamblers who push ahead. (7.) 3. Fairweather fish. (7, 5.) 4. Emotional call at the card-table. (5, 3.) 5. ( ne of those schca I-days. 6.) 7. Just over half a dozen in a disguised name. (7.) The first part of 3 conies and goes, he said. (10.) 11. Smash Into net. (Anita.) (12.) 14. They give People a better 'view of Them. (IS.)
17. Support--but not to be sat on. (8.)
19. Breathless birds ? (7.) 21. One might get lean front It. (7.) 22. For everything we were the opposite of this, wrote 8. (2. 4.)
25. " Quoted - and jewels five words long." (Tennyson.) '(4.)
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