"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 181

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ACROSS

s. But let us hope the happy pair wont get the pip! (6, 7.)

9. He didn't use the by-pass.

to. Cat is wrecked in Monmouthshire.

1. 'What so — as truth is? " (Browning.)

12. Try new ale from him.

13. An emblem of greed in emblems of inebriety.

rs. They have eyes but see not.

17. They are not so stuck up as they were.

19. How omens may be regarded.

21. A calamitous process: if I left it would be simply-general. 23. "I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on — and have him talk to me." (Shakespeare.)

24. Long fur an algebraical date. 25. For this, very oddly, one might have stood in the middle of a fall.

26. An aspiring sort of horse, though his quarry is immobile.

DOWN

2. One of Marlborough's victories.

3. Audacity.

4. People get landed with them.

5. Lighterman's jaw?

6. As might be expected, they go with the current.

7. The inevitable alternative seems to be daughter.

5. They might make a donkey try. 9. It's for Sikes to prove they aren't. 54. So be a nice bow.

x6. What is to be ignited isn't stated.

17. The Ancient Mariner of today.

18. No room in the old bottle.

19. Like one of the occupants of Pat- morc's house.

20. Alas I make cordage.

22. "— me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire." (Shakespeare.)

23. He didn't mean that his crew should speak for him.