THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 548
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ACROSS
1. Delving sin, very original. (3, 3. 4.) 9. Its very name suggests that one would rather give it the go-by. (4.) 10. Red-beard the sleeping hero. (10.) '‘• 11. Turn to South Africa. (6.) 13. Unlike pudding it requires no proof. (5.) 18. 14. Risen like a tree. (4.) 21. 16. Proverbial loud-speaker. (6.) 22. 19. " Can you eat it ?" is generally the 23. first. (6. 9.) .26.
20. It shows how logical a snore may become. (6.) 23. It commonly occurs in refuse dis- posal. (4.)
24. It was a gold mine to Solomon. (5.) 25. Old faithfuls. (6.) 27. Bad crime it disguised. (10.)
28 . . . . the implement (or raising a car. (4.)
29. Sufferer from cardiac abnormality met in a dream. (10.)
DOWN
2. A process of elimination having nothing to do with the weather. (4.) 3. Mix round it little brothers. (6.) 4. Gray came next in a picture (6.) 5. Blushing aside it can be picked out. (15.) 6. I'm turning up like mother. (6.) 7. The library should be to live up to its name. (10.) 8. This seems to suggest that affectation can be attractive. (7, 4.) 12.
15. This, perhaps, is bound up in a book about poultices. (7, 4.)
The expert who figures out cricket- ing performances? (7, 3.)
- may have had their goo'. cooked by tobacco-juice." (Calver- ley). (4.) The Moor is 3 ft. 9 in. short. (4.) Mr. Parker's way of getting in. (6.) He can always he got out of a strait. Bad for beds, good for mistakes. (6.) " So farewell hope and with hope farewell -." (Milton). (4.)
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