5 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 29

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 441

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ACROSS

1. "Where is that -," as Laurel might say. (9.) 5. Highland indulgence. (5.) 8. "Now - the glimmering land- scape on the sight" (Gray). (5.) 9. Royal tea-addict. (5, 4.)

11. Embodying and describing ars tailor. (9.)

12. The police want the key to the ignition here. (5.) 13. It may go round or just get puffed out. (4.) 14. Earlier than a Chesterton character yet a day later. (3, 6.) 18. Transformation of a sane spiv. (9.) 21. Will she be back for dinner ? (4.) 23. Is she fly ? Not really. (5.) 25. How the snapdragon practises fraud.

(9.) 27. Lean hopes for the mosquito. (9.) 28. Requirements. (5.) 29. He specialises in a good brush-up. (5.) 30. This case's altered. (9.)

DOWN

1. Instruments "ear - piercing" in Othello, "vile squealing, wry- necked" in the Merchant of Venice. (5.).

1. The instruction appears truthless. (9.) 3. Aromatic sprinkler. (6.) 4. "To thy high - become a sod" (Keats). (7.) 5. High jinks with blondes ? (8.) 6. Yeats made free with it. (5.) 7. Monstrootr ocular distinction. (5, 4.) 10. Island las*, (5.) 13. They're plain to see in America. (9.) 15. Burmese city in 13. (3.) 16. Foreign station in the sandhills. (9.) 17. Would this define Richard Nash ? (S.) 19. Drive. (5.)

20. What Shakespeare character stood on her head for purposes of A.R.P.? (7.)

22. Throne for an insect. (6.) 24. It gets a jaw in Canada. (5.) 26. Relieves. (5.)