15 FEBRUARY 1935, Page 38

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 125

BY ZENO

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34 35 ACROSS I. " Cat ! who hast pass'd thy grand . . .

How many mice and rats hast in thy days Destroy'd I "-Xenia.

10. Stone-drawer.

14. Hard to retain when drunk.

17. All solverswill brook this. 19. Back to front it looks like the rodent belonged -to her.

21. Air-travellers are flighty though not necessarily this.

22. After fifty, I see, hens then occupy most of the space. 24 rev. " the truest issue of

thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed, And does blaspheme his . . . 1 "-Macbeth. - 25. Are shut together causing damages.

26. I should be in a rage sur- rounded by marble.

30. in 19. 31. Horsy American ejacOla- tion.-

32. Outcast.

34. A new view.

35 rev. The spelling of this stems all idea of basins.

DOWN 1. This gentleman will be found around the other one.

2. It quailed in confusion.

3. Begins the above.

4. Vowels, 5. Famous U.S. president. 6. A drum in pain.

7. f of 13.

8. There's only a part of a dollar about me. 9 rev. "I have had a most ...

vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."

11. The female around a slightly altered horned animal.

12. "And water wetly on fire in the grates of your. ... a" -D. H. Lawrence.

13. Essential part of a pitcher.

15. What is under is over half gone.

16. Results in the answer.

18. Brood about a bird of prey. 20. The feminine in ten at the

head of a small ballet. 23 rev. 35 double-ended with

nothing out of it. 27. Browning tells how good news was brought here.

28. A tool with damnee.

29. Zodiacal sign.

33. Around 25.