THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD NO. 669

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Across

It doesn't quite come to be suitable though sweet. (6.) Abode in which one can't take to flight. (8.) No candidate for the goods in Bunyan. (6.)

Wood in-a postcript. (8.)

All go back in the cricket ground. (8.) Lytton's contribution to cricket. (6.) A roof for discovery. (4.) A means of transportation wrongly divided in the stud farm.' (5. 5.) Does he save his breath to cool his 1.

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Porridge ? (10.)

20. Canonized sailor. (4.) 23. " Tell me - what power divine shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? " (Coleridge). (6.) 25. Tan pairs on the up-and-up. (8.) 27. Excited. (8.) 28. Cousin German. (6.) 29. Legendary lady of the Lebanon. (8.)

30. This character shows how matters are commonly finished. (2. 4.)

Down

I. Because .pf such a road boots must often be. (7.) 2. He is more easily seen in a trio than a quartette. (9.) 3. This place in Africa changes a letter of 9. (6.) 5. Duchess of literature. (4.) 6.

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26. French statesman who escaped from Paris by balloon. (8.) He's out for blood. (5.) W.I. has names up. (7.) Put off. (P.) Poetry of the age is contrary. (7.) A city of trimmers, perhaps. (9.) How happy could he be with either ! (8.) I'd capsize in flat-bottomed boats. (7.) Abstainer packed in trunks. (7.) I'm tidy in this stuff. (6.) Secret society. (5.) He wasn't really so humble. (4.)