" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD - No 23 - 1.

BY ZENO

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2. The mice in this food, I sup- pose, get all tangled up !

to. You would probably get the point if you sat on this kind of a pillow !

13. Makes a flexible shoot with 6.

14. The food to use if you spill the milk, at tea for instance ? 17. A fitting associate for the sword-fish.

19. A net may help a fisherman to land his bites, but no one hopes that of this !

21. rev. Italian poet of the 16th century.

23. " What is the odds, so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the . . . of con- wiviality ! "

25. rev. See 4. 26. Dilatation of heart.

27. " . . . man dare, I dare." 29. rev. Paid to spin (anag.).

32. It makes a cathedral town. 33. Men of leisure after a sum- mer basking in the sun !

34. rev. Puts you back musically.

DOWN I. Done by fits and starts.

2. Being made comfortable about the end of a visit doesn't prevent stickiness.

3. Panes sent from France are to be broken up.

4. rev. Latin without adding 25.

5. Flint-111e quartz.

6. rev. See 13 across.

7. Food any idler would like !

8. Go backwards with this to get it protracted.

9. Can the end ? (anag.).

it. This horse is reared in a garden.

Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and . . . ing thee after supper."

13. A cockney selling lettuces who cries this, will find it helps.

15. This takes a carriage in walking !

16. Vat in which cloth is boiled for bleaching.

x8. This kind of information will drug you ! 20. " Evil . . . rides post, while good ... baits."

22. Character in Shelley's " Pro- metheus Unbound.

24. Mountain-peak.

28. Whose can the end of 17 be ; 3o. Swallowing 31 will cause a shooting pain.

31. See 3o.