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Solution to Crossword No. 1462. Across: 1 Bespeaks 5 Bad

egg 9 Leporine 10 Scheer 12 Eulogy 13 Semester 15 Adjutant bird 18 Comp- trollers 23 Atlantic 24 Assure 26 Becket 27 Fanlight 28 Estate 29 Coverage. Down: 1 Belted 2 Supply 3 Enraged 4 Kine 6 Ancient 7 Electric 8 Gertrude 11 Recalls 14 Bucolic

16 Scramble 17 Implicit 19 Tangent 20 Re- solve 21 Suggia 22 Seethe 25 Dado.

Winner: C. Allen, St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill, London sel9.