15 JUNE 1951, Page 30

THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 630

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1. No badge for a hen. (7.) S. A Gilbertian character thought it this that children were born Liberal or Conservative. (7.) 8. Character from fiction one would expect to be ladderless. (7, 8.) 10. Bad doctor in Sweden. (5.) H. One just can't afford loose leaves in it. (3, 6.)

12. It's sent as something different. (9.) t4. One doesn't care to have these fellows on hand. (5.) IS. Colour from a task to be done. (5.) 16. Place in a place in Norfolk. (9.) 15. Respect. (9.) 21. Chloe, wrote Prior, was her real one. 22. 5sollor thus encountered at Saul's city it seems. (15.) 23. They might restart, having changed sides. (7.)

24. "If this Etc - make the most ot it I (P. Henry)., (7.) tried to k

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1. For a peaceful smoke. (7.) rie 2. Mr. Dick teep him out of the Memorial. (7, 3, 5.) 3. She takes a tired hop. (9.) •

4. Comes in hit on the leg retires hurt. (S.) Sharp advice to cricketing girls. (9.) turn 6. " Some to - tu to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin " (Flecker). (5.) 7. Such Instruction as Fagin organised ? (E, 7.) 8. Finish among limbs. (7.) 13. Green sand (snag.). (9.) 14. But, all the same, the gardener may have a warm heart. (4. 5.) 15. He's getting on. (7.) 17. Let it stand, son, its a hat. (7.)

19. " The blue rushing of the arrowy " (Byron). (5.) 20. A moony sort of age. (5.)