"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 3 [A prize of a

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1 1 ACROSS The O.T. character seems to have got it in the neck (is). to. Anaemic youngster (7).

Alternatively the stuff of an oriental fanatic (7).

12. Just one of the crowd theatrically or quite the reverse (8).

13. An old flame (6).

15. Fawning (9).

17. One of Clough's fears (4). 19. From the German hymnary (4).

zo. The look requisite to read- ing between the lines ? (9).

23. Trollop's military lair (6). 24. Unlimited illustration (8).

27. You'll never dream what this is ! (7) 28. And finish the ship (7).

29. But even mounted it won't meet the west (13).

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2. A bit of the door lopped off to make a deck (5).

3. When cotters make a night of it (8).

4. I pout at ten and receive treatment (to).

5. Inserted by the clumsy (4).

6. The little bit of stuff doesn't get in (6). 7. "The Importance of Being, . . . She ? " (9).

8. "A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E. and her Caro -" (5).

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9. After this, in the view of Sydney Smith, the epicure is immune (6).

14. One of those among whom the author of the Book of Proverbs urged his son not to be (io).

16. What next ? (9).

18. Two essentials in the pro- cess of cooking one's goose (8).

19. A lord who past away with five ships of war (6).

21. Exemplary user of the by- pass (6).

22. They make me sad (5).

25. Get fit for transport (5).

26. Purchases extras ? (4).