12 AUGUST 1949, Page 25

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1.ic implication that most don't call '1)rissils at sea. (9.)

5. "Through those dark - across the wild That no man knows" (Tennyson). (5.) 9. Vulgar talk before the postscript. (5.) 9. Work with wine and a French one at that. (9.) 11. Hail to the moon and take time to get well. (4, 5.) 12. Concealed in some parcels I expect. 13. Woodless Betsey. (4.) 14. Unconcealed containers of ashes. (9.) 18. It shows Gilbert's preference for red corpuscles. (9.) 21. Examine foot by foot. (4.)

23. "'Tis given out that, sleeping in mx orchard a serpent - MC (Shakespeare). (5.)

25. An objective of those who get well up in the study of botany. (9.) 27. Art administrator of foreign affairs. 28. She can't be as green as that 1 (5.) 29. Island school-man. (5.) 30. Alfred's companion divides the cheese -and where. (9.)

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The marsh has overflowed M. (5.) It was "like the sound of a great amen." (4, 5.) The slut's confused when he em- braces her. (6.) An eater of this could tightly Llaim to have eaten an alligator. (7.) • " Grief . . . . Stuffs out his vacant -with his form" (Shakespeare). 6. A town full of traveller,? (5.) 7. Alison Cunningham's boy. (9.) 10. Almost any old coin (5.) 13. Kingsley's dog would have welcomed this contraption. (9.) 15. Department of the disallowed varlet. 16. It puts matters right. (9.) 17. First tenant of a prefabricated dwelling, possibly. (8.) 19 Nothing more than mixed game. (5.) 20. SiNCIr of Orestes &mon* the Pkiades. 22. So snow makes one faint. (6.) 24. Part of an amount illegally demanded. (5.) 26. The coming on part of 7. (5.)