"The Spectator" Crossword No. 18I

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ACROSS 2. This person has need to be well shod !

10. Where the body is if it wears these ?

14. This vegetable is never free from decay.

15. - Oozes through.

18. rev. This turns to red immediately the other way round.

19. A superior railway ?

20. Vowels.

21. Zealot in air (snag.).

22. Part of tho Abbey.

23. Terrible lizard.

25. rev. See 29.

26. rev. Makes me chafe.

27. What resulted from the Prodigal leaving home 29. Go along ground with 25.

30. Small metal vessel. 33. Latent state.

DOWN 1. This fruit measures 18 to 22 inches end to end.

2. rev. Burn exeat (anag.).

3. rev. " True, I talk of dreams, Which are the . . . of an idle brain."

4. What is the navy in the midst of doing ?

5. External parasite.

6 R. 7. A measure of the body ?

8. Makes a net principle.

9. " I'll make . . . doubly sure,, And take a bond of Fate."

11. " So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The . reckoning, and men smile no more."

12. Any rule of procedure.

13. Strangely enough, Leonato's daughter is the chief man in the poem I 15. This requires a diabolical answer.

16. rev. This garb is mere pretence.

17. Fasten one on.

24. " Old . . . breed new shame."

28. " We are ever young enough to . ; never old enough to repent."

31. rev. Heavy timber (with 32).

32. rev. See above.