22 JANUARY 1937, Page 44

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 226

BE ZENO.

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10. Satan always appears in 1. A show of indecision is quite natural if you get ill 14. This soldier is made to 6. Dry rotten wood. search and rob the human 7. Hip-bone. race.

16. " and in so doing . . . him impartial.

immunity from arrest or easy gallop !

19. Defendant in real action. used in tennis.

perfection ! alley. 22. Cabbage palm or palm-lily. 15. Let nine break up inside.

25. I should get on. state.

26. rev. Vanquish. fifteenth century.

29. rev. " No mist obscures; nor and old.

stain, a plant is an urge. Breaks the . . . of heaven."

31. rev. A beastly constellation ! SOLUTION TO 32. These aural aids are made CROSSWORD NO. 225 almost entirely out of a tree stump. DOWN

1. If you are this perhaps you can compose .a line of poetry about a twisted tail.

2. An activity that is quite in the air ! ACROSS 3. Though always to be found this dramatic sketch. 4. My first is unchecked in 3, during a holiday.

5. Is always sour-though not there, it is only partly fine in a restaurant. my second in 32. necessarily morose !

8. Can make what is true

as though you loved him." 9. rev. sere wheel (anag.).

harm. 12. Favourable circumstance will be embodied in flesh. petuate part of us in 21. Famous navigator of the cloud, nor speck, nor 30. All this needs to grow into