20 JANUARY 1939, Page 40

" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 330 BY ZENO

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ACROSS 2. The right kind of a mount for a wet day.

8. Undoubtedly the right kind of person to use 2 across.

13. rev. See 3o.

14. I latin curate is dumb.

16. Gem of a game.

18. My first is unchecked in 7, my second in 31.

19. Additional clause explaining what 8 is to 2 across ?

21. " Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an . . . bosom."

22. rev. This car is used for the Government of India.

23. " . . . . . born great." (Two words).

24. My first is unchecked in 2 across, my second in 31.

25. rev. You will want this part of a hat to be full.

27. rev. This football player is often found nearly dead.

28. Mortgagee.

3o. rev. and 13 across. Makes mistakes.

31. Perhaps a chair is the very thing to offer the not recent ?

DOWN r. Many of these, I have no doubt, are taken by ski-ers abroad !

2. This soprano is never natural. 3. rev. Agree upon a bench.

4. There is a suggestion with it.

5. All right.

6. Greet dale (anag.).

7. Nowadays this learner gets another head.

9. What charm gets most of is man.

to. Expressing offence is like to bring about a broken lid ! See 26.

12. There's always a welcome in this house.

13. rev. Again prepares for publication.

15. rev. Old apparatus-that distils ale ?

17. rev. "Like cliff which had been rent asunder ; A . . . y sea now flows be- tween."

20. Person like a machine.

26. rev. with 11. Jot on the head.

29. Hazardous above the sky.