THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 505
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ACROSS
1. Here Mr. Churchill is well map. (5.)
4. How to get blood out of a (9-) 9. Where, in two senses, a master mariner spends much time. (9.) 10. Unburnt battle. (5.) 11. A rice plant. (5.) 12. Not the cuff-fastening one would expect to buy in pairs. (9.) 13. Opportunities for the escapist. (7.) 16. Drank out of most of it. (7.) /9. A slip of the pen perhaps. (7.) 20. A necklace for a Briton. (7.) 21. Artisan liable to go to the wall. (9.) 24. One of the old Reds. (5-) 26. One who fell on evil times and went to the bad ? (5.) 27. Walkers on this have little hope of overtaking. (5, 4.) 28. These are put over windows largely on account of the simple truth they state. (9.) 29. " I shall never be friends again with (Swinburne). (5.)
DOWN
I. She becomes no cheaper. (9.) 2. Indispensable to Tony Weller. (5.) 3. 'Let but the commons hear this -, which, pardon me, I do not mean to read " (Shakespeare). (9.) 4. Second half of 9. (5.) 5. I also turn from this. (9.) 6. Jack is always cold. (5.) 7. Obscure in the eighth trick ? (9.) Stone? on the 8. "The - I do not scorn To death because they never lived" (Brown- ing). (5.) 14. Jacket for use as a shroud. (9.) 15. He didn't use the by-pass. (9.) 17. Vain argot (anag.). .(9.) 18. One of these was enough for Hall Caine. (9.) 21. Pastry advertisements possibly. (5.) 22. Twenty hundredweight but not quite all. (5.) 23. " Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter's -" (Shakespeare). (5.) 25. Reversed reel. (5.)
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