28 NOVEMBER 1941, Page 22

" THE SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 142

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ACROSS I. Provided at the Crystal Palace which became the biggest of them all (9).

5. Instruction to a jelly (5).

8. " Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred " (Byron) (5). 9. Patients of whom their doctor is most proud? (9).

This stage must have been reached fairly near the end of Gibbon's masterpiece (9).

I2. A popular game with hop- pers, perhaps (5). 13. A distinguished woman. She fills most of the sofa (4).

14. Oriental work composed in a giant jail (9). • 18. Chronic complaint of homing pigeons? (9). 2E. This is always to be found in fake pictures (4). 23. Hichens's garden was his (5). 25. I can enter like this, maybe (9).

27. Going order (9). 28. Where the exultant walk (2 words) (2, 3).

29. " A - of the woods, a man without a tear " (Campbell) (5)-

3o. By no means theatrical, though an expert in make-up (9)- DOWN

1. " 0 love, they die in yon rich sky, They - on hill or field or river' (Tennyson) (5).

2. Real vest I get from them (9).

3. He wrote "Lady Baltimore " (6).

4. The rug encompasses the front of the leg (7).

5. Dnah (8).

6. This is found where The grass is all cut (5).

7. Up to the opera in and in

to. Ton (9). hug dutifully (5). 13. In France the station is

among the sand-hills (9). 15. A great industrial affair here in France (3).

16. Carmen is a rearrangement of this (9).

17. Universal (8).

19. Arthur Waley published the tale of it (5).

20. I'd escape accidents (7). 22. Author of 14 (6).

24. Fra Lippi (5).

26. " Giant -, darkly grand, grasped the globe with iron hand " (Rogers) (5).