"The Spectator" Crossword No. 227

Br ZENO.

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ACROSS 1. More than one would be worthless odds and ends- . but not to the mice !

11.. The eyelid, I suppose, would be such a surprising cir- cumstance !

14. My first is unchecked in 1 down, my second in 18.

15. Hilarious humbug that ren- ders you insensible.

17. Gave this as a gift, in short.

19. rev. See 32.

20. Washes against.

21. If you lie like this apparatus it will be prodigiously.

22. Amphibian allied to sala- mander.

23. Insect living only one day.

24. My first is unchecked in 12, my second in 1 across.

25. For a pound more you could - get with facility something useful to painters.

26. 1 across is generally this.

28. The number of rogues in buckram that let drive at Falstaff.

29. Sometimes a widow is used as a souvenir.

30. A joint of meat is mostly pointed.

32. The (19 rev.), to gain his private ends, Went ... , and bit the man."

33. Sum-total of experience.

34. See 3. DOWN

1. What you eat when you have an ice is not this, I hope !

2. This is certainly topping .

3. Watched closely with 34.

4. Conjecturally the specified number before me.

5. Heroic poem about the same author.

6. I spent ten (anag.).

7. This sportsman is a user of wily means to catch.

8. rev. This person who rum- mages can't help being full of violent anger.

9. This foreign wind-instru- ment is not played from the mouth, and yet supplied from the lungs.

10. Sparkled.

12. Fragile thing generally broken in the morning.

13. Our vanes (anag.).

16. In the style of a poet of about the ninth century B.C.

18. Subsided.

27. Stand 32 on its head.

31. Abounding in words before the pious.