THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 597
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ACROSS
1. Not really so large a proportion of fifteen as seems apparent. (6, 8.)
10. Who occupies this place ? 0, a half-sister. (5).
11. One is taxed to do it. (9.) 12. Ring over ring. (6.) 13. Tennyson wrote of splendour failing on such walls. (6.)
16. "One of us was born a - And not a soul knew which" (Leigh:). (4.)
17. On tap again (anag.) (10). 20. Differently divided, where the grinders' monkeys used to sit. (5, 5.) 21. Stuck in the ground, how can it mean ' to hurry ? (4.) 23. Aminta was his. (6.) 25. Motor with us, nothing follows. (6.) 28. A big fellow ? Absolutely fabulous l (9.) 29. Miss Merion. (5.) 30. Musketeers mildly Punished for a hat. (5. 8.)
DOWN
2. Hang about the broken stein. (9.)
3. Followed. (6.) 4. Gay lord of the boards. (4.) 5. Entirely complete, it would b one could get her at the end • 6. Sailor with tattered c.lJt: for vinegar. (8.) 7. "I taste no politics in i. ,led and -" (Smith). (5.) 8. This wasn't necessarily ..: very small political unit. (6, 7.) 9. Bury a native. (13.)
14. This pabulum might be as apt. (5.) 15. "Loud sang the souls of the jolly, jolly mariners. Plucking at their --" (Kit:ding). (5.) 18. It changes into a clue. (9.)
19. Flood. (8.)
22. It comes between you and the horse.
fPi) 24. ambics from short to long' (Coleridge). (5.) 26. It always occurs in the record of a monarch's despotic reign. (4.)
27. Such a ground was Sussex to Kipling. (4.)
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