10 NOVEMBER 1950, Page 43

THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 600

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ACROSS

1. Out does, if one sits on a pin. 3, 5.) 9. Took cover and broke gaol. (7.) 11. Study canvas and be satisfied. (7.) 12. "A very foolish, fond old man." (4.) 13. An instrumental girl. (5.) 14. The end of the chess match didn't become exciting. (4.) 17. "When you are old and gray and full of sleep And - by the fire" (Yeats). (7.)

18. No doubt one gets all wound up in the dances. (5-)

19. Poe wrote of one in one. (5.) 21. The Scot in Eden ? (7-) 23. Do conic back about six. (4.) 24. " Farewell ! Be the proud - of a ducal coronet, and forget me " (Dickens). (5.) 25. Fodnd in Seville but not Madrid. (4.)

28. Verily, a girl with a bent tin. (2, 5.) 9. Hero was his heroine. (7.)

29. Stints herself's in this. (14.)

DOWN

2. Somebody made game of a spinster. (3, 4.)

3. Serpentine fish. --.(4.) 4. His speciality is making nonsense of parts of speech. (7.) S. Meet attire. (4.)

6. Trousers for skating ? (3, 4.)

7. Suitable subject for a king of shreds and patches. (14.)

8. Halt ship in port (anag.). (14.) (4, 2, 10. Indebted? Go and win ! (5.) 15. The Milanese one figured in fiction. (5.) 16. "Still in thy right hand carry gentle " (Shakespeare). (5.)

19. Something wrong with her steering ? (7-)

20. The soldier doesn't quite qualify for aid. (7.) 21. Fish rising to me. (5.) 22. Sunders. (7.) 26. Something in hand? Usually just the opposite. (4.) 27. Harvesters' dance ? (4.)