THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 696

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1. Man keeps wine from tea and water. (11.) 7. He is responsible for much sweated labour. (3.) 9. Wanderer is sane, it seems. (5.)

10. Nautical arrangement which somewhat re-arranges 11. (4. 5.)

II. News of phrenology ? (8.) 12. Next morning she encounters lamb. (6.) 15. Once familiar to Irish men of letters. (5.) 17. This gem should live up to its name. (9.)

19. Simon Bolivar. (9.) 20. How to sing " Excelsior " ? (5.) 21. Yeats sung of those of heaven. (6.)

22. Mistakes in the wardrobe. (8.) 26. A little book with neuter change. (9.)

28. Pet ejected though lying quiet. (5.)

29. Ability displayed in food preservation. (3.)

30. Memory confused about undeveloped talent. (6, 5.) Down

I. The devil's beauty-spot seems likely to break the container. (9.) 2. Dance frcim Burma. (5.) 3. It's novel about the fifteenth of the month. (11.) 4. Initially a city and half another. (5.) 5. Broken nose lasts a long time. (4.) 6. Evidently she's single. (3.) 7. Balance of metal on three feet. (9.) 8. The girl from Asia Minor. (5.) 13. Too much indulgence for my cold. Odell. (11.) 14. It enables one to go to sea ashore. (4.) 16. The monster of the fire-place. (9.) 17. Between the teeth of the determined.

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18. A romance in the attic? (4, 5.) 21. Either way it's to do with the town.

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23. She gets all Arnold has but the last penny. (5.) 24. Browning found such a feather. (5.) 25. " What two ideas are more inseparable than -- and Britannia ? " (Sydney Smith.) (4.)

27. Falstaffs follower begins like 4 and ends like 15. (3.)