THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 254

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- ACROSS

1. Humpty, but not Dumpty. 5. Elba's _dark aspect.

8. A case of putting the cart before the horse at sea.

9. Bad, but a support.

ii. Go to the dogs? Yes, do, Sam! 12. He first brought patients up to scratch. la. Milton sang of lean and flashy ones. i6. No calf's in birds.

18. Something to boot in a sign of distress.

19. One author at least wrote his own. 20. Only half enough fruit for a four- footed beast. 22. Modified.

26. Emperor whose ends were peace. 27. " Immortal heirs of universal -." (Pope.) 28. Sculptor but no pickle. 29. Written by a phrenologist?

DOWN

1. Low haunts for the rich.

2 Roman nets look better like this.

3. Man of morality.

4. It comes and goes with bells.

5. Even this rough accommodation is welcome after its reverse.

6. " He taught us little but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll." (M. Arnold.)

7. Concerned with colonisation on the basis of expertentta docet? to. Briefly the Editor if on ice.

13. Man is the only animal that does or needs to, it is said.

14. Does Beachcomber write for this?

15. Salutation, but not for you, as it were. 17. This quid isn't a pound of tobacco. 21. Too much with us, said the poet.

23. " There lies more - in thine eye Than twenty of their swords." (Shakespeare.) 24. The postscript to the river isn't shallow.

25. One of Ruskin's two.