" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 306

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ACROSS

. Habiliments of folly. (3, 3, 5.) 9. Actually it isn't. (7.) o. The stork is a trimmer. (7.) IL Crime that I camouflaged. (10.) Is. Bed, it may be cracked. (4.)

14. Danger. (5.)

15. Does this snake come from England?

No, Canada. (8.) 17. Getting-one's-own-backs. (8.) 19. It occurs between risers. (5.) 22. Charlotte Maria Tucker. (4.)

3. Tomorrow's government, perhaps.

(10.)

26. It may be secure on the surface. (7.)

27. A 9 sort of starter. (7.) 2E. Alternatively, mistress doesn't care. (6, 5.)

DOWN

1. The plant one is not able to grow in Scotland? (5.) 2. Little dog at the jetty-head, or is it a ladder? (7.)

3. Cool. (to.)

4. In which performers 19 lightly. (6.)

5. No palm is arranged for illumination. (8.)

6. Island reached by Noah navigating south? (4.) 7. Perhaps a suitable nick-name for W.G. if he had represented Oxford or Cambridge. (9.)

8 Nor turn up with order. (6.) 13. Many a one is to be found in Bums. (1o.) -

14. Poetic enfnence. (9.) 16. A star? Yes, he's super, or might be. (8.) 18. " The dew that on the lies Mocks the dark lustre of thine eyes." (Scott.) (6.)

20. An old priest goes to the New Jeru- salem. (7.)

at. Express a political opinion about four. (6.)

24. Old heads, one of them was Crom- well's. (5.)

25. Check,-but not tobacco smoke, surely! (4.)