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ACROSS 1. This will make Elsa clinch it (x2). 9. Broken by a nursery moun- taineer (5). so. His product gets into hot water (9). rt. Not the one on which " the sun was low " (2 words) (6, 3)- 12. It's about half 9, but worth much more than 2s. 6d.

usually (5).

13. Any schoolboy will agree that his were anything but figures of fun (6). 15. Where people may go in suspense (7). 19. The organist didn't know what he was (7). 20. Self-announced Italian pro- tector (6). 23. They are planted in boots and come up in a few hours (5).

25. This gives Etna a cold (9).

27. Grace before meat, or this (9).

28. He came between Wood and Halifax (5).

29. The vocalist is definitely pedestrian (2 words) (6, 6).

DOWN x. According to Keats he used to listen to the song of a bird with an emperor (5). 2. Not enjoyed by the objects of divine favour (9). 3. It's trodden underfoot (6). 4. A centre, by inference, of sober cheer (8). 5. This can be found in the stem metaphorically speak- ing (5). 6. Where they go dialectically hatless in Yorkshire (2 words) (5, 4).

7. Capes'll come to it (7). 8. It describes the accent illus- trated by 6 (5). 54. He illustrated Bracebridge Hall " (9). 16. One of the sites of London (9). 17. Tac-tus perhaps (8).

18. See below.

21. "Soon shall thy arm, un- conquered -, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car " (5). 22, 18. Isle de France, so to

speak (2 words), (7, 6). 24. The second part of 29 curtailed (5).

26. There were two on Hardy's.