19 DECEMBER 1952, Page 31

THE "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 709

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1. When we get in front of the sun. (10.) 6. Explosive puss. (4.) 10. Submarine tutor. (5.) II. A product of the soldier not the potter. (9.) 12. This process is definitely original. (8.) 13. Relations who take no little interest.

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15. Naturally 10 likes to be in it. (4.) 16. One of the things planned at Innisfrce. (4.) 17. All right with a schoolboy's pious ending. (5.) 20. Mixed soles. (5.) 21. It's just one of those things. (4.) 22. This work should not make one.

(4.) 24. " The things you will learn from the - an' brown." (Kipling.) (6.) 26. A fellow begins to eclipse the disciple. (8.) 29., Say too much about a superior realm. (9.) 30. Many are played by another name.

(5.) 31. This exclamation was used by the Psalmist. (4.)

32. The merry wives were. (10.)

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1. " - exalted sat, by merit raised to that bad eminence." (Milton.) (5.) 2. Nonsense that entered with a lion. (9.) 3. Miss Waters. (6.) 4. Others I cut. (Anag.) (10.) 5. An increasing writer of Utopian out: look. (4.) 7. Fishing fairy. (5.) 8. The semptress's work seems of only temporary value. (9.) 9. " The -, Beauty, in a mist of tears " (Yeats.) (7.) 14. Minced meat carries its own cure. (10.) 15. Sarah with the wine. (9.) 18. A harvest goes to the overturned store. (9.) 19. Soup see ! (Anag.) (7.)

23. " Even the ranks of Tuscany could - forbear to cheer." (Macaulay.) (6.)

25. A penny among dregs. (5.) 27. Mitigates. (5.) 28. I ask for a pen-name. (4.)