" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 244

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ACROSS

7. Chicken's contributions to the band.

7. " - would he be of soul who could

pass by." (Wordsworth.) 9. The plant that is this must have to A famous mystery was concerned with one of diamonds.

II. Model boss in flower.

12. They settle without payment.

14. One finds nothing original in these.

t6. It might attract a rotarian fish.

7E. One gets the last word though its confused.

79. The Navy is more itself today. 21. Wordsworth's standard of loneliness.

23. A receptacle for cold comfort! (3, 6.) 26. Such a knight was Simon Tappertit.

27. Not what the City means by turn- overs or the cook. 21. The isle for jumpers. 29. Improving aspect of a mere idyll.

DOWN

2. The lion-tamer doesn't seem to be in control here.

3. Sankey's companion wasn't neces- sarily subject to them.

4. Kipling collected shillings in it for " a gentleman in khaki ordered south."

9. Ride quickly out of a trance.

f. A race of wine for the dismissed. 7. All I divide is the dance.

8. Confused at the ends of 7.

13. State in which the unlettered typist may be discovered?

15. A queer performer on the cinder track.

17. Let enamel take shape from it. zo. A little science with many sheets. 22. It's going to be grubby.

24. Antony drew attention to his rent.

25. It goes out to sea.