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"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 396

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Not the head-dresses of youth, evi- dently. (6, 4.)

6., Bad men get away with it. (4.)

to. Looking back heraldically. (9.) If Henley isn't on the Thames it may be in this. (5.)

12. Ws art that gets so narrow. (6.)

53. Dais. (7.) 15. Four-footed advice to an oarswoman.

(7-) 17. In these even the most impoverished will not get on their uppers- (7.) 18. "The phantom caravan has reached The - it set out from" (Omar). (7.)

21. Benjamin is embraced by a true girl. (7.) 23, Youth takes One abroad in slang. (5, 2.) 24. Showing that all that glisters is not gold. (6.)

27. The end of the whistle. (5.) 28. German salutation and sings about it. (9) 29. One meets him in a roundabout way. (4.) 30. A qualified palmist should be able to do this dabster. (to.) DOWN The cry of the links. (4-) 2. "My - there is none to dispute" (Cowper). (5.) 3. Rubbish, it's ju,st too long for a motor- shed! (7.) 4. Musical swindler. (7.) 5. Miss Miggs was very, much addicted to them in private life- (7-) 7. Nothing like a suitable nightcap. (9.) 8. Not the kind of photograph one usually sees of Miss Rogers, though it takes the biscuit. (6, 4.) 9. XVth Century letter-writer. (6.) 54. Vintage conflict of some spirit, it appears. (to.)

i6. Turn steed. (snag.) (9.)

19. Warm corners. (6.) 20. It has smiting accommodation. (7.) 21. Mixed oil in a hole. (7.) 22. Johnson produced it twice a week. (7-) 25. Belinda has no existence. (5.) 26. Accustomed. (4-)