"The Spectator" Crossword No. 117

BY ZENO

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38. 8. Where one across is always used in confusion around me. 13. Welcome on all accounts.

15. Sounds like comfort, but you will understand if you turn it round.

18. The first and last of 28.

21. Shows off around eleven. 22 rev. Commonly seen with

horn, string, and-its maker. 23. The first had a penny, the

last a bob, yet there was a quid between them !

28. A hearty outlet. 32. Dash abroad.

33. Our due these will be found in heaven.

34 rev. The better part of sound- identity. 36. Ten a penny is what he wants.

37. Many a one will be cracked at Christmas.

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1. Course of action demanding rapidity.

2. Popular with Keats.

3. They never under-estimate !

4. Very soft.

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Flattery when soft.

Seasonal greetings to you from us. 5. Theme for much comment. 6 rev. Directs one-way motion.

7. It is absolutely first-rate in the teens.

8. It is what it does.

9. The last of sixteen below.

10. The first of • the slump cut commercial development in two.

11. A beginner, in the midst of

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16. The-case (snag.).

17 rev. Put forth.

18. A villainous word.

19. A quartet of sibilants with a small island helps.

20. The kind of spirit Shelley wrote about.

25. " Which way I fly is . . . ; myself am . . ."

27. Fire and the seasons often produce it.

29. Rant sometimes produces its variant.

30. No man does this to his difficulties if he can avoid it. 36. A little above eighteen.