THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 631

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ACROSS

I. No more large whiskies fiddler ? (6, 8.) S. Sartorial blows. (S.) 9. Ripe coins (snag.). (9.) 10. If they're burn-out they're not worn out. (3, 7.)

11. " Around the child - all the three .

sweet Graces ' (Landor). (4.) 13. Samuel takes a vessel to make a vessel. (6.) 15. More lacking in definition. (2, 6.) 17. Celebration in the field when a wicket falls ? (8.) 18. Cherry drink. (6.) 20. She had " fret like sunny gems on an English green.' (4.) 21. It would spoil the story if they solved the clues too fast. (10.) 24. A close shave. but not with a razor. (4. 5.1 25. Roman change. (5.)

26. Getting funds by inflation ? 4.)

DOWN

1. Medical parliament ? (7, 7.) 2. Me Milt,n's much quoted sheep. (5.) 3. Browning's missing editorial. (4, 6.) 4. 0. the rough and tumble about an abstainer 1 (8.) 5. " Auntie. did you feel no -, falling from that apple-tree ? " (Graham). (4.)

6. Elsie's no's might be- (9;)

for the

(7.

7. A partner who in on handing out the cards for play. (2, 5, 7.)

9. " A - beyond au telling, Is hid

In the heart a love " (Yeats). (4.)

12. Movement once passive here. (10.) 14. Japanese city makes Amyas a mut. (9.)

16.

Jolly epistolatory fellow. (8.)

19. He kept a (runnel' near Cavendish Square. (4.) 22. He doesn't quite set the verdict. (S.) 23. Sit up on nothing. (4.)