12 MARCH 1943, Page 21

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 209

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ACROSS

1. socatots. (4, 2, 5.)

Where two become one.

" Rolling down the — Road drunk and raising Cain." (Kipling.) Such things were twice as mods.

(4, 5.)

Urban sable.

Small-holdings for the saintly.

Not a very stable sweet.

Steady on! (4, a.)

No doubt the Roumanians hope the

black wont become wholly this.

(3, 3.)

Swinburne wrote a tale of him.

'Phones yet for a change.

Served by 24.

An explosive monarch, to be taken more seriously today.

It means putting on a good deal more

IS than the garment suggested.

DOWN

It is met at the hunt, be bound_

Not such • weig. hty matter of con- : 5C1CIICC.

Ran back In a suggestion of victory. One woukhet go here for a spin—or would one? (a, 3, X) i But of cosine he doeset grow once he's finished. 7. RiParints assets. (4, 2, 3, 4.)

L . Soft ones transformed_ 9. 1756-1763. (5, 5, 3-) 5$. It might be expressed in stockings.

(4, 4.) 17. Cut off when making a mink call?

to. Place famous for nearly all the plum. at. Display.

22. It's Easter—must be over!

25. Timothy or nobody else.