THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 275
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ACROSS 1. In the matter of incubation this seems an optimist. (8.) 5. Garment spasmodically donned? 1c. The Dobson girl. (7.) Puts on a change. (7.) 12. It makes flame leap, especially in winter. (5, 4.) 13. Got up, when the siren went wrong. (5.) 14. A retreat for oysters. (6.) 15. Almost a character of increasing deterioration. (8.) tfl. The last way in which to tell a cat to keep concealed. (3, 5.)
20. The sky of Stevenson's choice was .
wide and this. (6.) 23. He can's feet' at home. (5.) 25. Medicinal aspect of chilled drink. (9.) 27. Outmoded bend of fashion. (7.) 28. Hard times for metallurgists. (4, 3.) 29. Ink absorbed by doctors naturally be- comes them. (6.) 30. The hysterical are said to become it in a crisis. (8.) DOWN
I. German town converted by an Eastern ruler. (5.)
2. A goodinstrument, it seems, for the exercise of dial-ectics. (9.) 3. Such food would surely tend to burn the emmet inside. (7.) 4- Hunt the coward. (6.) 6. Recorded. (7.)
7- A simple soul. (5.) 8. A " naughty " sort of person. • (9.)
bird (6.)
9. State of the brick-treadng cat. (7.) 14. Security does not thus sound wholly innocent. (4, 5.)
16. Eat sulk. (Anag.) (9.) 17. Some time, in the American sense. (7.)
09. Is this a dagger which I see before me?, 2t. As vir. Crawley might have said,-
" Oh law, that's his profession! " (7.) 22. In the mind of Gray, perhaps, when
he referred to a " little tyrant." (6.) 24. They appear in a performance given
twice nightly. (5.) 26. Not the sporting Oddfellow's idea of
a price. (5-)
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