THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 650

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ACROSS

1. He will be found on the track, not in the dining car. (10.)

9. Exhausted. (6.) 10. I'm myself at an engagement with little interest first. (10.) 11. Wycherley's was plain. (6.) 32. At least half of them were dis- appointed. (10.) 20. Study the links. (9.) 21. Profit from soup. (5.)

22. Its way was a novel. (5.)

23. 4 finally takes a vessel. (9.) 26. Quite definitely a charming hood. (10.) 31. Suitable name for a ship's bed maker. (6.) 32. They make Eve a spring. (10.) 33. It gives me iron. (6.) 24. The favouring breezes everyone wants. (5, 5.)

DOWN

2. She gets a letter more than the Swedish nightingale. (5.)

3. Attempted to get three points ? (5.) 4. In fat I make a noble figure. to_)

5. The work, it seems, of a rising author. (5.) 6. Musical plants. (5.) 7. Not quite all off. (5.) 8. A useful beast in the cattle-boat. (5.) 12. Distinctive characteristic. (6.) 33. A negative period. (6.) 14. Wife of Posthumus. (6.)

15. Golden start of a butterfly existence. (7.)

16. Ice gale anag.). (7.)

17. A celebra ed man of concord. (6.)

18. Archie's development. (6.)

19. The ghos in the cruet.. (6.)

24. An obvious feature of pure vellum binding. (5.)

25. " 0 - shape I Fair attitude " (Keats). (5.)

26. Wood to turn to a cigarette. (5.) 27. Operatic part of Pilate 's Staircase. (5.) 28. Pax to the Romans. (S.) 29. A Liberal self-confessed. (5.) 30. The nymph of the library ? (5.)