24 APRIL 1953, Page 29

THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 727

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1. Last month's glass? (9.) 2. Little old city. (3, 4.) 3. " He haunts wakes. - and bear-

baitings." (Shakespeare.) (5.) non aninnm 4. American soldier turns up in a motor. jo.° lan7uNattEning, (5.) 5. Push Diana. (Attn.) (9.) omomoona 6. Revised. (7.) gr u on Lm monnonn 7. It goes from head to tail. (5.) o n

13. Depression from across the Channel. (9.)

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1. They're always on the make. (131 8. The poet in the soup. (8.) , 9. She puts me among other things. In. Who works and shouts ? (6.) II. Quadruped's wet weather forecast. 12. Enquire in a wager. (6.) 14. Work concealed the Scot (8.) 16. So I enter to bat. (8.) la Exclamation in a wry face. (6.) 20. Leyanted embracing aunt. (8.) 23. Nero's tutor. (6.) 24. Shuns defining an empty space. (6.) 25. Man and mother with us. (8.) 26. Exclusive correspondence ? (7, 6.) 14. This number is imp rsonal. (3.) 15. Where King Henry wanted no more men. (9.)

17. Oil's cut, he'll help one see it. (7.) (6.) 19. Nightshade does the chickens no good. (7.)

(8.) 21. It goes up and down, that's flat. (5.) 22. Piles of depression. (5.) 23. McKenna's heroine. (5.)