" The Spectator" Crossword No. 85

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ACROSS 1. End of 3 ae.

3. Stark mad in white linen. 11. King Gama was.

14. 1 ac. rev.

15 rev. Not fatherly, certainly. 16. Old in As You Like It and Ruddigore.

18. Baths in confusion.

20. Fowl tailed with its head.

21. Playful town in Greece.

23. One mixes night across the Channel.

23. Top begins a lexicographer.

26. H. G. Wells wrote in the Days of this.

27. Christian name of the author who wrote of 1 dn.

29. Becomes a letter when fol- lowed by 13.

30. Father where Philadelphia is. 31 rev. My garment and I for an animal.

32. Middle of 30 dn.

33. Hastings has lost internal fifty. 34, 38. Sweet on the stage.

35. Head of 16.

36. Musical instrument.

37. Rechabite head and tail might make it suitable for breakfast.

DOWN I. Stark mad in white satin.

2. Age.

3. Pertaining to the work in which 1 dn. and 3 ac. appear ?

4. Mangled dirt for paints.

5. Operatic dragon.

6 rev. Indian garment.

7 rev. Dry after 32 a.c.

8. Nearly eaten by a cousin of

the Loch Ness monster. 9 rev. An insect met me in

confusion.

10. 1 ac. rev.

12. Put me in the middle of 1 ac.

13. One of the U.S.A. in little. 16. Famous Cambridge club. 17 rev. A cut ? Nay (snag.). 19. Made like 23.

22. May be made by a meeting like this.

24. The oarsman uses this pin. 25 rev. Colour of a sort.

28. Edwin has lost his last penny.

29. A capital.

30. The last of six. 32. American labour body.