"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 388
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ACROSS
1. Friend with a curly tail. (8.) 5. "These to his memory." (6.) 9. Like tanks, but in a zoological sense.
(S.) lc. Give Boris a change. (6.) tr. Make shift with Leo, very nervy. (8.)
12. Scots negatives to a graduate. (6.) 14 The fur might fly if this were sur- rounded by the CatWater. (4, 2, 4.) 18. Mail is expanded by a lion on horse-
back. (to.) 22. He divides the cats. (6.) 23. A bed's the mixture here. (8.) 24. Not a fried fish shop. (6.) 25. So a trite gem may be shaped. (8.) 26. This beast can swallow Amy feet first. (6.) 27. The Pot of Basil. (8.)
DOWN
I. Covering of the extremities of 2. (6.)
2. It would leave one speechless. (6.)
3. They don't use it for angling at Rugby. (6.) 4. Evidently the craft of the writer. (1o.) 6. I'd go back to Staffordshire. (8.) 7. Canadian dog. (8.) 8. Sc' a grass may grow in the sea. (8.) 13. Useless to invite a beefeater to these (1 c.) 15. Definitely the remedy. (8.) 16. Fairy in a sty. (8.) 17. Carriage for the station. (8.) /9. "There's a sweet little - that sits up aloft" (Dibdin). (6.)
20. I lapse into it. (6.) 21. Success with this depends upon ex- posure and subsequent developments. (6.)
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