"The Spectator" Crossword No. 222

BY ZENO.

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ACROSS 1. What can wipe away all tears brought thorn to Othello !

11. Falstaff certainly was.

14. This rope has noosed a melody.

15. Of a branch.

16. My first is unchecked in 28, my second in .21.

17. Favourite dish of a wood- cutter ?

19. Not to be sneezed at-if you were an accom- plished Beau !

20. Odoriferous part of a dollar ?

22. Instrument always used with effectiveness.

25. Boss-not the master !

26. rev. Twigs of trees.

27. If you do what it says ycu will get tips-otherwise, a dog that was useful to cooks.

30. Sweetmeat that always contains a nut. .

32. Geographical garments ? 34. Pulpits in early Christian churches.

36. Fish that has no part.

37. " . . with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amo- rous delay."

38. The scene of the above.

DOWN 1. What the last part of Gulliver's Travels would amount to if dramatised 2. A sentence of outlawry on the head of a college- tutor.

3. rev. ". . . are April when they woo." - 4. Are able to (anag.).

5. American nocturnal carni- vore.

6. Puzzle. •

7. Under - here in Latin is a, drinking-vessel.

8. Vowels.

9. rev. Sign.

10. Exquisite.

12. " Dry sun, dry wind, . . . bind,. . . find."

13. This kind of-lock is tangled.

18. The bush-quail takes its origin from half a seed. vessel.

21. "That all-softening, over- powering knell, The . . . of the soul-the dinner bell."

23. "the great . . . itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve."

24. Vessels that pull vessels.

27. rev. Bumpkin. . 28. rev. He disappeared within the arches.

29. " . . low words oft creep mono -dull line."

31: Kind of pcde that cad swim. 33. Our common ancestor ?

35. Raga is but an illusion if you apply this.