7 AUGUST 1953, Page 23

THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 742

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Across

I. The old soldier thought it heavenly. (8.)

5. " Little thought What - to me the show had brought." (Wordsworth.) (6.) 9. Carriage of pleasant associations. (8.) 10. One of two characters, the other might provide the scent. (6.) 12. Old salts Of the Turf. (5.) 13. A line old hand might reveal this tree. (5, 4.) 14. These conduce to the making of it. (12.) 18. Not what Brown displayed on the opposite island. (12.) 21. Policy of batsmen from the Levant 7 (3, 3. 3.) 23. Eat away. (5.) 24. Legal negligence involves nearly all Chelsea. (6.) 25. Strong man of the harness-room. (8.)

26. "Swinging slow with - roar." (Milton.) (6.) 27, He should be able to stick it. (8.)

Down

1. " Hark the little - bell which bid- deth me to prayer." (Coleridge.) (6.)

2. A devouring bean. (6.) 3. Winged vapours create dread. (9.) 4. This song was too much for James the Second. (12.) 6. lust the paper for those who lack polish. (5.) 7.

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" No one but he baby cried for poor Lorree." (Kingsley.) (8.) The cards that won, perhaps. (4, 4.) Study puss before Ena, Edward. (12.) Free from blame the officer on a broken tree. (9.) Sounding choice at the start the re- mainder turn up for a solo. (8.) The paid player gets half way to college with a memorandum. (8.) Make two of the French stroke. (6.) Subterranean hunter. (6.) "lie . . . found it was his sister's husband's -." (Carroll.) (5.)