"The Spectator" Crossword No. 2 9

By XAN'FHIPPE.

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ACROSS .

i. The beginning of this maze nearly gives. you- a man of Truth.

6. Alleged characteristic of the Yankee voice.

9. In The Merchant of Venice.

10. In Princess Ida.

11 (rev.). Nobody was Bun- thorne'S. • - - 12. ignelosai 15. Norse epic.

16. Bet.'

17. Part of the 1-repiarchy. 19. This diet is nearly a lot of soldiers:-

21.1Sir Henry Lytton's sue- 23. f eessor. 25. Nelsonian battle.

27. " ' They hammered out my basset point Into a round salade,' he said. The boa. net is quite out of joint, the salade rasps my head.' " (Morris.)

30. Mixed stone.

32. Low repute (two words).

33. A girls' school. • 34. Was Ann the slow musical daughter of this epic poet ?

35. Rand, cents (anag.).

DOWN 1. N.C.O. when followed by a kind of punishment. 2. Noisy part of London,, re- publican when.divided.

3. A vulgar noise of dis- approval.

' 4. Approached. • 5. Excrescences.

6. Wat.

7. Can rise (anag.).

8. The proper place for pat- ball (two words).

13. Perhaps, copies of a defunct Liberal contemporary. • 14. English historian.

16. Division of the human race, in which the first part is not always the last part.

18. Gives rise to.

20 (rev.). The only place where

• ',people are eager to be hung. 22. The story of this Reefer has been attributed to Marryat. 24. Utmost.

26. Italian peninsula.

28. Escape.

29. Undergraduate's passport. 31. Assembly of a sort.