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5. A place of merely incidental Intelli. genre ? (6.) 9. Lets us cap you though quarrelsome. (8.) 10. Time on one's legs 7 (6.) 12. The story of 21's voyage. (6.) 13. Venus conciliated ? (8.) 15. Flowery emblem of the Scot's universal penetration. (5, 7.) 18. A hard man thus deranged. (12.) 23. Time the builder become thus opti- cally affected ? (4, 4.) 24, The forbidden island, It seems. (6.)

26. Baba for example in a stage. direc- tion. (6.) 27. Not poisonous, however, in the duck's opinion. (8.)

28. Disperse athletically. (6.) 29. It's strange that this china got broken. (8.)

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1. Amuse,-Jockularly ! (6.)

2, Little work to act as a model, (6.) 3, Not an exclusive baggage. (7.) 4, Obsolete lizards. (4.) 6. A shocking character given direction. (7.)

8. Left-overs make a sure side. (8.) 11. One of a tribe of theatrical successes ? (7.)

14. Worn away. (7.)

16. Corvine places of refreshment. (8.) 17. Looks rather like a cannibal's confes- sion in excuse. (8.)