" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 54

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SOLUTION NEXT WEEK

The winner of Crossword No. 53 is Mrs. A. Lyle Harrison, 7, Fortwilliam Terrace, Belfast.

ACROSS z. On reflection Alice was able to read it (z I).

7 and 33. Where the phoenix parked itself (6).

9. Not the measure of cubs (5). to. China Celt in a B.B.C. hitch (9).

z 1. A play on words (7).

12. Time is of no consideration with such (7).

15. It reduces the spirits (4).

16. About fifty-one chaps get confused (7).

18. Evidently he is not 12 (7). 20. A region and alternatively a

Royal Academician (7).

23. How a watch is often kept (2 words) (2, 5).

25. It has eyes but it sees not, perhaps (4).

26. The elder Miss Jenkins (7). 29. They lay down below with the land (7).

3o. Fund I need, but lacking form (9).

31. The abstainer enters Water- loo without his favourite drink (5).

33. See above.

34. They may be said to em- body the idea of might and main (2 words) (3, 8).

DOWN x and 32. " The traffic of ladder pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross " (6).

2. With a shilling in arrears, SO to speak? (9).

3. Embrace 4 (7).

.-He goes into a box and swears (7). 5 and 23. The sound of Nature's reveille (14).

6. She wrote The Heir of Red- clyffe (5).

7. Cadre takes name (5).

8. They prevent people gettin,2 on edge (II).

z x. Collaborators in a doubtful story (3 words) (4, 3, 4)- 13. The doctor might have beer.- an angel (5).

14. Lysander's river-head (3).

17. He helped to make Kent a kingdom (5).

19. Possibly .a pretty one, but certainly not of fish (9).

21. An injunction to act in both directions (3).

22. Not the affliction of Lord Haw-haw, yet! (7).

23. See above.

24. Anglo-German propagandist (7).

27. It is a bad enough start (5).

28. The fur on us grows the wrong way (5). 32. See I down.