THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 149

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ACROSS 1. Nothing is likely to interfere with established Ancient Lights (2 words) (6, 8).

9. "When - hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd blows his nail" (Shakespeare) (7).

10. See below for the separatiou (7).

it. So let it be capable (8).

12 The first was Longshanks (6).

14. Alter the ban and get the means of expression (4).

15. Honest is an anagram of them (to). 17. I return with what is clear in a ring (to). 19. Kipling's "giddy harumfro- dites " in short (4).

22. Exempt (6). 23. Surprising that the outcome of this is hearty (8).

25. In this case a complete game is a mere episode in another (7).

26. head of a convent I (2 words) '1, 6).

27. Shipshape (2 words) (7, 7).

DOWN

I. Amost any insane- translations will do (14).

2. Torn about the definite object '7).

3. What to do with an empty magazine (6). 4. Acting thus seems dissoci- ated from fundamentals (to).

5. Estate coinage (4)-

6. Copious (8).

7. This is found in a passage in Diana of the Crossways (7).

8. This doctrine is not neces- sarily believed in by people who book in advance (14).

13. Tristram surmounts a social blunder when in drink (to).

16. Class Dan among these (8).

18. She vegetated fruitfully, so to speak, in Athens (7).

zo. He dispensed with wire (7). 21. What looks a tress provokes! (6).

24. It isn't altogether altogether (4).