" THE SPECTATOR' CROSSWORD No. 217

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ACROSS 1. Cousin of a book by Chesterton? (3, 6.)

5. They have stupid handiness, so to speak.

9. Like strawberry leaves? 9. It goes from hand to hand and hand to mouth. (6, 3.) I/. " Come down to Kew in it isn't far from Lone." (Noyes.) (5, 4. 12. It is ior other worlds, said Holmes. 13. One couldn't make it a self-contained wine.

14. Hangman at the hosier's. it. They used to be seen in the gallery. 21. Hare.

23. %COIL

25. Insular and monastic. (4, 2, 3.) 27. A picturesque outlaw, half bird, half

Poet. (5, 4.)

25. Bits of a demijohn.

29. Knocked off in triumph. 30. It is to be hoped they get good digs, whether billeted or not (4, 5.) DOWN 1. It may be a cross, or it may just be a round.

2. " . . . Engraved with storks and apes and crocodiles, And heavy

beaten - for lords." (Flecker.) (9.) 3 She's left.

4. Hangs about.

5. It sounds as if the soldier were not standing to attention. 6 This is always met in the traffic Hurlingham way. 7. Spare hips out of joint.

so. Turns.

13. They can be got from Morse Bros. i5. " Can storied - or animated bust Back to its mansion all the fleeting breath? " (Gray.) 26. The doctor hesitates before the field-

officer. (4, 5-) 17. 0 a sin disguised about a motor.

I go next morning. 20. As the crusading lobster might have asked.

22. The one under the fire, or some-

thing to eat? (3, 3.) 24. Sand-blind in Shakespeare. 26. The numerical height of fashion.