" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 279

BY ZENO

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ACROSS If you dine with this man you'll go hungry !

1. What to serve to the honest mathematician for a vege- table ?

14. Unrelieved burden for a bearer.

zo. He has a picturesque career.

21. 02 inches on the move.

22. It's as well this giver of health doesn't take himself literally.

24. A watery way to greet a person.

25. See 7.

26. Painting always hung upside down !

27. " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the.. . ."

28. Gem known to the ancients. 30. Do after a piece of music. 32. No, I cried not (anag.).

36. Companion out of condition that can draw.

37. rev. Tool no longer seen.

DOWN 1. Fowl that is, besides other things, very neat.

2. Serviceable.

3. rev. Less than quick.

4. Vowels.

5. Author who, in a manner of speaking, beats about the bush !

6. See 8. I. 8. and 25. Certainly not ex- tremely stingy.

9. with 6. Vibratory sound.

10. Suitable place to have a beastly dispute. so. It's true, our longings are mostly for money.

12. Interjection.

13. There's a great deal of justification for betrayal.

15. rev. Islands in the Pacific.

16. rev. Vessel that contains a small herd of whales !

17. rev. Make a gift.

18. This passes to the poles.

19. Goes about idly.

23. Swing forcibly.

28. rev. " Dost sometimes coun- sel take-and sometimes... "

29. rev. Before us is a plant. 3o. Unchecked letter in To geminated.

33. rev. See 34.

34. with 33. Adroitness.

35. My first is unchecked in down, my second in I across.