" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 10 [A prize of

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ACROSS I. A suggestion of campan- ology in the laundry (8).

5. Most of us like white wine just like this (6).

9. Not the Hunter (8).

10. The two essentials for our life under canvas (6).

I tried stem revision for this politician (II).

14. There is much before it in play (3).

15. Pith (4)-

16. Autobiography of the author of Stones of Venice (9).

19. A gargantuan sempstress, one might think (9).

25. A new one (3).

26 and 21. Their job might appear to be a perpetual clearing up (15).

28. Shakespeare's tawny bill (6).

29. More to the front (8).

3o. Lisping lyrics (6).

31. How's the food? Simply divine! (8).

DOWN and 23. No doubt the Iron Duke put his foot in it (I4).

2. How schools are organised

(7).

3. The egoism of Italian statesmanship (6).

4. " Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used-" (5). 6. A dull old city, very ex- asperating to motorists (8). Two words.

7. Self-confessed hoax (7).

8. Put us in college (6).

12. Tennyson had views of his own about their blood (7).

13. By rotation (7).

17. Mother separates the twin giants (8).

18. It is not only in Cumber- land the English regard England thus (8).

20. Not a lion, perhaps (7). 22. They make for Church unity (7).

24. Cheers for the sailor (6). 27. The famous journalist em- braces a century of the theatre (5).