13 JULY 1944, Page 21

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 279

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s. Old gallery men. (9.)

6. Imprecated minced spam. (5.)

9. Virtuously vertical. (7.)

Sc. Miss Austen's girl takes to horse with a gun. (4, 3.) ri. A peaceful fight. (3.) 12. 0 wed Mae West. (Anag.) (10 14. Store at which to buy a lynx? (5.)

15. Not a woman's garment evidently.

(7.)

17. Make it clear. (7.) 20. Set 6 dn.

12. He gets his own back, and then some. WO 24. Babbitless Gascony. (3.)

:5. Heat urn. (Anag.) (7.)

27. The star toreador. (7.)

af. Irritable. (5.)

29. King John's drink doesn't sound so %iscous as it might have been. (9.)

DOWN

1. •rhe French cat got so confused that /1 quarry swallowed it. (9.)

2. The last place to encourage egoism. (7.)

3. Do people go like this when to!d to take cover? (It.) 4. Darts up in ease. (7.)

5. Ste 6 dn.

6, 20, 5. Evidently the pessimist is one v,ho is out of breath. (3, 5, 5.)

7. Game not changed (7.) 8. Bedding in these. (5.) 13. In a left-tarnish manner. (11.) 16. How to shorten the drama. (9.) 18. Pushes a boat round the north-east. (7.) 19. American naturalist. (7.) 21. A thankless sort of person. (7.) 22. Medical officer last month. (5.) 23. Spartan magistrate. (5.) 26. Forty-five inches short, really! (3.)