" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 116 [A prize of

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ACROSS

t. A place of growing gence (9).

5. The doctor in short follows me (5).

8. "Hyperion to a (Shakespeare) (5).

9. He keeps on calling (9). t. Not Keats's version of " alien corn " (9).

12. Nine to one on (5).

13. A vehicular and celebrated head-mistress (4).

24. He makes Sachs sane (9).

18. Her predictions were dis- credited (9).

21. Entreaty (4).

23. Mr. McKenna's heroine (5).

25. They don't work unless somebody gives them a lead and then it's only play (9).

27. Can I shove fish? (9).

28. She's found helping to make a fire next door (5).

29. Penitent wear (5). 3o. Cast into confused trade DOWN I. Fundamental (5).

2. Literary stars (9). 3. Target of verbal warfare (6).

4. They are much more stable than the name suggests (7).

5. A bit in some confusion (8).

6. Journey's end without the nation (5).

7. She made an amazing mar- riage (9).

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(9). to. Numerical peak of dress (5). 13. This nautical term does not imply remaining behind (9).

15. The atmosphere is full of music (3).

16. A great deal intended to be grown here (9).

17. If one treated the bird as it suggests its head would be a ram (8).

19. Hot in this garment, I'd get up round it (5).

20. Charged (7).

22. " Demurest of the tabby kind The pensive reclined " (Gray) (6).

24. German I observe in the North-East.

26. Simply an Eastern ruler.