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shell. (IL) SOLUTION TO 24. Marry,-the batmaker's daughter CROSSWORD No. 455 (IL)

26. Calf-skin grown up. (6.)

27. The Confederates appeared to think It theirs. (8.)

28. Having done his work he sat in the sun. (6.) 29. / Caroline, Shirley's friend. (8.)

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1. Meredith's love. (6.) 2. A coat for the general. (6.) 3. Try love and no secrecy. (7.) 4. "An - by right ; by courtesy a man" (Austin). (4.) 6. It may be tipped or shot. (7.) 7. If this noble house grew straw it would be useful to Luton. (8.) 8. Impolite nose. (8.) 11. Bolted after • little laugh, and where. (7.) 14. High fliers to the sun. (7.)

ACROSS 16. Would one expect to find the (8.) 20. "They are as gentle As - blowing

21. A Roman in Chicago displaces the 22. Bumble's office. (6.) 25. Collins had none for a book. (4.) 17. Tea chats (anag.). (8.) 19. Shared by Sidney and the Countess fashionable aspect of it, becoming a woman. (6.) below the violet" (Shakespeare). (7.) of Pembroke. (7.)