tt THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 68 [A prize of a

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ACROSS " Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird" (Keats) (i t).

9. Brown round it makes it very big (5).

so. Disloyal Leo (9).

It. This vessel is not likely to be seen in convoy (9).

xz. A dresser, not a bore (5). 13. Bo-peep's quarry was (8). 15. The voice of the cat-fish? (6). 17. Little Diana Green (6).

19. " On the road to Mandalay Where the old - lay " (Kipling) (8).

23. Slave-dance (5).

24. Gratiana dancing beat one of these, said Lovelace (9). '

26. It just gets handed on (9).

27 and 8 down. Marvell in his cups, perhaps, was a clown (2 words) (5, 6).

28. Used, one might think, in the making of longcloth (ii).

DOWN I. The opposite of day rate? (7).

2. Sacking,-the gunman? (5).

3. Little more than black bosh (8).

4. No bath for him,-almost (6).

5. Land ration (9).

6. The mare goes up and swallows down a pig (7).

7. Degrees (6). I. 8. See 27 across.

14. He is between equality and the end of to (9).

16. Last in (8).

17. The V.A.D. goes up and it's the end (6).

18. "He's truly -, that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe" (Shakes- Peare) (7).

20. London in Paris (7).

21. Tests metals (6).

22. The main brace makes it rummy (6).

25. Nonsense, - where's the elephant? (5).