HE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 590
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ACROSS
th's the scarf of an Old Testament ,haracter? (4, 9.) Punch in his presence: but Bromley didn't spell him this way. (9.) Put your foot on it! (S.)
A hardy man of fiction. (5.) Belonging to Miss Muffet's pet aversion. (9.)
Rather sore having been granted a fellowship, it seems. (7.) An opening alternatively possibly frozen. (7.) Here the name " Christian " was first used. (7.) Such a matter has moral significance. (7.) " To be a prodigal's favourite, then, worse truth, a miser's - (Wordsworth). (9.) Tennyson's three-fold command to the sea. (5.) Mangled without the doctor. (5.) They seem just the dogs for dowsers. (9.) The real paper I get from him. (13.)
DOWN
Good-lookinr folk might be said to be. (9.)
" A highly impossible tree In a highly impossible - " (Gilbert). Common location. of a bearskin. (2, 5.)
iforse-play in a card-game is a hotch- potch. (7.) Hen's peril (snag.). (9.) Found in an old garden dedicated Is Eros. (5.) 8. " Between his Darkness and his Brightness there passed a mutual of great politeness " (Byron). (6.) 9. Given to making play on words? (5.) 14. One who takes great interest maybe. (9.) 16. Rough. (9.) 17. How's that for an example? (6.) 18. Gesture usually preceded by arms down. (5, 2.) 19. China-town. (7.)
" The long light shaker across the - " (Tennyson). (5.) 22. Blackwater? (5.) 23. Laban's disguised, what a flop! (5.)
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