THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 258

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ACROSS

" The cowslips tall her

(Shakespeare.) See 28.

Sustains many an inhabitant of 7.

" I make the netted sunbeam dance

against my sandy

(Tenny-

son.)

• .• y- Tribe of old fossils.

Naturally one takes coins on short trips.

le They go over the bridge in 24.

He had a good time, although very Pore.

(A)sters' ducks.

Red vase. (Anag.) This country is not necessarily it mountainous.

Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes, I did not come to curse

rn thee, ." (Tenn)son.)

6 This type doesn't go in for flourishes. 2' The lion takes to the nest; it's heavenly.

23 Iron ones do not make a 7 at. 2Y Puts ashore a hundred monkeys.

DOWN

2. Puzzling. 3. But there's no reservation about the Moscow guns!

4. Spare horses at sea?

5 And stands about the woodland ride Weat'ng whi e or

(A. E. Housman.) 6. Impressive mammal. 7 But what did the Caliph eat? 8. Go pale as a daisy.

13. Ornaments thus don't make a breeze. Is. This is confused above The Nine. 17. Vesta's ire. (Ann.)

20. How the bird arrives at the station? 22. Callita of tropical entanglements?

24. The girl in the orchestra.

25. By word of mouth. tidc."