"THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 580

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ACROSS

1. An aspect of writing that carries conviction. (5, 3, 5.) 10. Nonsense gets only half a laugh in Germany. (5.) 11. I am coming unstuck. (9.) 12. For local cold storage. (3, 3.)

13. It just looks round. (6.)

16. Tree-trunk arranged for piercing. (4.) 17. Where the race begins in Devon. (5, 5.)

20. South of the Mason and Dixon line and nowada.., has lost its sibilant.

(6, 4.) 21. Not, as might be expected, used for fastening a horse-collar. (4.) 23. " This is a - particular, a fog Miss " (Dickens). (6.)

25. Hush and fire back. (6.) 28. Only a small bore, but it would revolutionise the chess-board. (4, 5.)

29. She may be found in the bonfire next door. (S.) 30. Anything but a nice quiet retreat. (6, 7.)

DOWN

2. Useful if you take a correspondence course in pugilism. (9.) 3. A useful mythological charauer to help with the spring-cleaning. (6.) 4. Does she grow feathers ? (4.)

S. Hardly the intake, though taken in. (4.) 6. It's danced, .tot smoked or blown.

(8.)

7. Possessive in the alteration. (5.) 2. Cricket all red for a clung from the desk. (8. 5.) 9. How, paradoxically, to end a dispute. (5, 2, 6.) 14. " All that mighty heart is Iyin -" (Wordsworth). (5.) 15. A particular sort of burning object. (5.)

18. Bury timidity ? Don't mind your own business. (9.)

19. Come up in a mild expletiv . (8.) 22. " Farewell the neighing steed and

the - trump " (Shakespeare). (6.) 24. She may hav wept but, in return,

got an O.B.E (5.) 26. Carton's better sort of thing, nearly.

(4.)

27. Even justice it seems can look peckish. (4.)