" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 438
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ACROSS
1. Shakespearian pensioners. (8.) 5. Flavourings largely composed of cold comfort. (6.) 9. These, so to speak, may be made to scale. (8.) 10. Outstanding specimen of illumination. (6.) 12. The Lady of Shalott left the web and this. (4.) 13. Use the pony. (Anag.) 15. They sell fish here, not language. (12.) 19. Evidently these writers do not produce a great volume of work. (12.) 22. Examples from the past. (11.) 24. Catty talk. (4.) 26. Suitable name for the coiner's daughter. (6.) 27. Plant which, one might think, would be of medicinal value to horsemen. (8.) 28. Shouted aloud. (6.) 29. The wares people used to buy from him required sticking. (8.)
DOWN
1. Horse with a high voice turns blue. (6.) 2. Tree full of bats. (6.) 3. Christmas turned solitary. (4.)
4. "Much is the force of heaven-bred - " (Shakespeare). (5.)
6. Charlotte Bronte took one of them for a novel. (10.) 7. Such things are in common use. (8.) 8. J. W. Wells, for example. (8.) 11. It overcomes that sinking feeling. (6.) 14. Proverbially a pretty object in the kitchen. (4, 6.) 16. They were bound to serve. (6.) 17. Manifestation. (8.) 18. Fairy in the unsorted post. (8.) 20. Friend of Dickens. (6.) 21. " Battering the gates of heaven with storms of - " (Tennyson). (6.) 23. They meet at meals. (5.) 25. A rise in nuts. (4.)
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