" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 389

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ACROSS

t. Battle orange which is something else. (8.)

5. Met, returned and divided. (6.) 9. Led from behind in " The so. A job isn't well done by them. (6.) Gondoliers." (8.) 12. Obviously they upset canoes. (6.) 13. A Kipling impostor. (8.) 15. Equally handy, so to speak. (12.) 18. I bisect a pail (anag.). (12.) 23. Such ideas are generally accepted (8.)

24. Stylites. (6.)

26. Half a dozen return to drink. (6.) 27. Trouble for nothing. (8.) z8. Australia's association with " The Only Way." (6.)

zg. It's so very moving. (8.)

DOWN

1. Ideal author for the library. (6.)

2. " The - flew from Rimini " (Kipling). (6.)

3. In the matter of words, the same but different as it were. (7.) 4. It's found in any companionable person. (4.) 6. That's hard ! (7.)

7 0, it turns up in a county. (8.)

8. "- of herself, though china fall " (Pope). (8.) Is. It goes squarely on the head. (7.) re. The soldier probably would not look for this in the R.A.M.C. nores. (70 16. Cobra sat coiled. (8.)

17. What Jael did to her victim is sea- water. (8.)

29. Bid more for a sedative. (7).

20. Nobody can have a good look with this. (4, 3.) 21. It takes the rein. (6.) 22. An Archbishop of Canterbury. (6.)

25. " Big with the fate of - and of Rome " (Addison). (a.)