THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 625
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ACROSS 1. Band going in bar in a big way. (14.) 9. Recording. perhaps, of Yuletide festivity. (7.) 10. He lagged superfluously on the stage. wrote Johnson. (7.) II. Drink that muddles a woman. (4.) 12. He SCCITII 10 have a SOITIewilat larger task than the man behind the stumps.
(4, 6.) 14. The head of a 17. (6.) 16. I can't die (snag.). (8.) 19. His period of education was given up to literature. (3. 5.) 21. They go between. (6.) 25. He made no claim to oratory. (4. 6.) 26. One might make sure of it. (4.) 28. It suggests the sardine but in fact Is very deadly. (3, 4.) 29. In which Sydney Carton made his last journey. (7.) 30. Where to look for a depressed fellow among piles of junk. (4, 2, 3, 5.) DO1VNI 1. " . . ., the fatal - which gives the stern'st good-night " (Shakespeare). 2. Aground. may be, yet evidently somebody's doing sentry duty. (2, 5.) 3. Heard constantly at Bleak House. (4.) 4. What's the rascal up to? (2. 4.) 5. A van overturned on scrap-iron. (8.) 6. Unruly groups round their confusion. (10.) 7. This ruler seems to have a got a hold on things. (7.) 8. " When to my good lord I prove -. I'll choke myself " (Shakespeare). (6.) 13. Such toying with a fan isn't to be taken seriously. (10.) 15. The old ecclesiastic makes a call for action. (3.) 17. One can't tell which way the child is Iran. (3.) 18. To hear the radio wear false hair. (6. 2.) 19. A highly cultivated redskin. (6.) 20. Battle makes me groan. (7.) 22. Concoction to restrain misuse of the keys. (7.) 23. les really too much ! '(7.) 24. A little song one can revise as chants. (6.) 27. " She stood in tears - the alien corn " (Keats). (4.)
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