THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 347

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I. These are not fired from warships. (9.) 5. One way of finding pulse in soup. (s.) 8. Probably he doesn't feel at home. (s.) 9. Favourite town of exporters? (9.) II. Hard to do this on rationed food.

(9.) 12. Too sticky for a stone. (5.) 53. Watson's player- (4.) 14. Assooiated in fiction with Udolpho.

(9.) 18. The pride alike of slick butcher and wristy batsman. (5, 4.) 21. It is given to outpourings possibly before. (4-)

23. You chaps. (5.)

25. They have no attraction for the dreamer. (9.) 27. No original sin without them. (9.) 28. On whom one casts a burning glance? (5.) 29. Very common parlance. (5.) 30. But just as much of it will fill a cask. (5, 4.)

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T. It has only a sort of lotion, though there is room and to spare. (5.) 2. 011-taster. (Anag.) (9.) 3. "No - generations tread thee down." (Keats.) (6.) 4. Associated with coincidence rather than bowling. (4, 3.) 5. The cargo boat got in front. (8.)

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6. Hogartllian progress. (5.) 7. The raw material of unlimited pud- dings in London. (9.)

so. " And climbing, shakes his dewy -." (Davenant.) (5.)

13. The lost ones who get to 7 perhaps. (5. 4.) 15. Besides. (3.) 16. Something involved in the eighth trick. (9.) 17. Brook-like. (8.) 19. An affair of relief initially. (5.) 20. W e until coming here. (y.) 22. Obs te. (6.) 24. It's part of the dynamo, I rather think.• (5.)

26. The beast to keep one straight. (s.)