" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 283

BY ZENO

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ACROSS This unhealthy district used to impair a Jane Austen character.

7. Liquid part of a tree.

ti. The writer doesn't watch his grammar in this sen- tence.

14. In the style of a sixteenth century painter.

16. rev. Defile in upper layer of earth ?

19. See 2I.

20. Doubled vowel.

2I. with 19. A good objective for boxers.

22. This moralising discourse is tedious.

23. A drink in a container is smoked in Persia.

24. rev. Nothing would make this handle correspondence.

25. rev. No, not spiritualism ! 29. To the death of a foreigner. 3o. Scott's lady of Beaujeou. 32. No, this gentleman doesn't look after growing children.

34. with 12. List of persons.

35. Ooze through in America.

36. Queer looking garden walk ?

DOWN I. In a cold climate this cake would be frosted I 2. Along a sou (anag.).

3. The least bit of skein ?

4. Repeaters. 5. rev. " Loosen thy sword in the scabbard and settle the . . . on thine head."

6. Pertaining to a court.

7. rev. You will get robust living in these dwellings.

8. rev. As between a clasp.

9. Some consider this fort too strong ! to. rev. Leave this blank.

12. See 34.

13. When these wave it doesn't cause 7 across !

15. rev. This god has some- thing to blow about I 17. Shut oneself up.

18. rev. " Ay me ! what . . . do environ The man that meddles with cold iron."

26. Bird which caused an amus- ing incident.

27. Quartz allied to agate.

28. Not a vessel of tin ?

31. rev. Keats's was Grecian. 33. My first is unchecked in x across, my second in 7 across.