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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 1208 ACROSS. - 1 Basilisk. 5

Smacks. 9 Foxtrots. 10 Choler. 12 Epochs. 13 Puncheon. 15 Brilliantine. 18 Trumpet- major. 23 Upper ten. 24 Strict. 26 Orison. 27 Seaboard. 28 Eagles. 29 Spurious.

DOWN.-1 Buffer. 2 Sexton. 3 Lurcher. 4 Seth. 6 Mohican. 7 Culverin. 8 Stringed. 11 Puritan. 14 Flutter. 16 Struggle. 17 Dumpling. 19 Purpose. 20 October. 21 Mikado. 22 Etudes. 25 Peep.