" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 19

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ACROSS 3. No, I pinch us for this (to). 9. Fish here before 5o (7).

to. Welsh place aux dames, so

to speak (to).

is. A chancy affair, and most of it is grave (7).

12. Where, eventually, seven- league boots are made? (3 words) (to).

13. Town where there is a period of dearth (7).

14. The undisciplined side of Suez (4).

16, 19. The Swiss town lost Trafalgar when transposed (to).

21. This arrangement makes a nose long (4).

25. The Book of Safety? (7).

26. His red soap produces emotional compositions (to).

28. This cricketer very properly made a stir (7).

29. Alfred's war memorial at 13 (2 words) (to).

3o. The puzzle's full of them (7).

31. A giant's trousers, of course, would have to be thus pro- found (to).

DOWN 1. Nor up in fuel (7).

2. Not much use to those who can't stand washing (7) 3. Buttons with heart trouble, but he gets the loot (7).

4. The organist said he was weary and this one day (3 words) (9).

5. Study and depart (5).

6. It goes off with a bang as they say (7).

7. Ague below the troubled Nile (2 words) (8).

8. The batsman may have made it without making a score (8).

15. How many points to the South-East in America? (9).

17. Draw Evoe out of this (8).

18. It's just one of those irri- tating trifles ! (8).

20. Feasts of a flower in ease (7).

22. Cat confused before the finish (7).

23. Not necessarily honest, but at least they can't be squared (7).

24. " The -, casting with un- purchased hand

The vote that shakes the turrets of the land " (7)

27. (rev.) Noisily permitted?