"The Spectator" Crossword No. 99

BY X.ANTHIPPE.

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1. Source of contempt. 1. 11. Turn back foreign assent.

13. Mr. Henderson would ap- prove the command issued to this person. 14. Curtail an island famous in the story of Gallipoli.

16. The Russian big "d wolf.

17. The Master of these is not a baker.

18 rev. The inscription of woe on "that sanguine flower."

19. A little proportional repre- sentation would make her take a step forward.

21. "Defensive of a house." 22 rev. Can be eaten or drunk.

23. Bird. 9.

24. Summit.

25. Airy prefix. 26 rev. "Hearken ere I die" (Tennyson).

27. Massachusetts seaside resort. 30. An Edinburgh M.P.

32. Ancient if.

33. One of the U.S.A.

35. Wulf is wanted.

36. Beginning of certain mys- teries.

37. Start of a famous Chinese statesman.

38. Oui 39. Scottish poet in Scotland (sorry !). 40 rev. Swiss resort.

42. Attire.

43. A harbour after this runs

the Tory organization. 40-

44. Masefield wrote of her. 41. DOWN

A Welsh county is so written in certain cases. I arc not there the first time. Smell.

The baby in The Hmoded Man.

Noisy religion. B.B.C. clients. Apes, perhaps.

"Fall into - and low price" (Shah.).

Mythological lady whom we have met before in these puzzles.

Be you ever so cortiots, your acts may be ---.

rev. Mixed rats at the begin. fling are wanted for what Gilbert's Major. General was good at.

Laid sap (anag.). The Scot is just in.

A loud noise is mostly implement of a row.

Its sauce is proverbial.

An authority on the constitution.

His plough is well.known to Etonians.

A misuse across the Channel. What Hitler might exclaim. Lincoln, perhaps.

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