THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 283

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• Most of this bird did not wink in the porphyry font. (9.) Louts used by surgeons. (5.) les just one long come-down with them. (9.) This fright doesn't describe a plain star. (5.)

. It goes in brown. (5.)

Coin got in. (Anag.) (9.) Transatlantic sweets. (5.)

• A helping of trifle, so to speak. (9.) The little man of the Underground wilway keeps time. (9.)

The hero's goal. (5.) • "0 -pilgrim, rise; the night has grown her single horn." (Flecker.) (9.) But Tom wasn't one of Fagin's proteges. (5.) Only the arranger of the pageant, no lather. (5.) Celestial products. (9.)

Where coats are changed. (5.) Nobody is likely to mistake it for a blackberry. (9.)

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Gwc the beast its head, it's alright. (5.) Hook-keeper with a trumpet perhaps, but not at his lips. (4, 5.)

I am morning. (4.)

5. A successful scoring s roke through the slips, one might think. (3;3, 4, 5.)

7. A town goes godly. (5.)

8. A mere game, some style it. (9.) Ix. 8 is not this sort of game. (5.)

z5. Height of the law. (9.)

17. Crime bait. (Anag.) (9.)

x8. " Tiny-trumpeting " was Tennyson's epithet for one of them. (5.)

22. Musical Composition. (5.)

24. "This push Will me ever, Or disseat me now." (Shakespeare.) (5.) 25. High in Bloomsbury. (a.)