11 SEPTEMBER 1953, Page 31

THE " SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 747

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Across

1. Where to begin on the off side ? (5. 5.) It ROCS to town on the Yorkshire coast. (4.) 10, He goes to town in Northamptonshire. (5.) 11. The less often they arc hit the better. (4, 5.) 12. Tom is one (snag.) (8.) 13. A negative memorandum for the victim of Achilles. (6.) 15, The great figure gets an order next morning. (4.) 16. So turn and behold I (4.) 17, He twice returns about an exclamation. (5.) 20. Outing paid for by someone else perhaps. (5.) 21. It occurs in " The Bride of Abydos." (4.) 22. " Beefy - an' grubby 'and." (Kipling.) (4.) 24. He didn't find Hastings such a health resort. (6.) 2f. Discard that very dark offspring. (8.) 29. Work weighed down, hence the melan- choly. (9.) 30, They intersect Broad Street. (5.) 31. " If you've 'card the - a-callin'. you won't never 'cod naught else." (Kipling.) (4.) 32. Edinburgh was the grey one of the North, said Tennyson. (10.)

Down

I. Meal unfinished by a composer. (5.) 2, A lobster a melange, (9.)

3. Dick made a long 21. (6.)

4. Groans rise from them. (10.)

5. What's in a name 7 Nothing's there for some Scandinavians. (4.) The senior officer has n ostty to stop. (5.) Has site coined a peerage in her own right 7 (4. 5.) Where to find the 22 of 8. (7.) He should know the Highway Code. (10.) Tosser of the caber 7 He stems to be at the receiving end. (9.) This part of a bridle might he a scat for the chief priest. (9.) The man in pursuit with a queer walk. (7.) How to treat the tea without putting one's foot in it. (4, 2.) The prose is a bit stringy. (5.) " They haven't got no - the fallen sons of Eve." (Chesterton.) (5.) He appears in the career of a mesmerist. (4.)

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