1HE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 549

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ACROSS 1. Author of 27. (7, 8.) 9. Change the penalty. (7.)

10. I signal round the bar. (7.) 11. -A warrior like a prince - Stayed his steed by her castle

walls " (Watson). (8.) 12. You won't find Jones at the exit evidently. (5.) 14. Weep before physical training. (5.)

15. Mr. Pickwick said he had a strong poetic tun. (9.) 16. ?dived tales in a Hardy heroine. (9.) 19. There's a cheat in it. (5.) 21. Maxim following maybe. (5.) I'm 22. So I' beat (snag.). (8.) 25. It's a mop this is made of. (7.) 26. The result of not letting the sleeping one lie ? (3, 4.) 27. Recoveredby Miss Amcdtuz on her marriage. (3, 6, 6.)

DOWN 1. - "The Fear in a visible form,

Yet the strong man must go " (Browning). (4.)

rany chacter increased. (7.) 3. Pot Noel out of joint. (7.) 4. Ilarvest. (5.)

5. A simple Meteorological fact. (9.)

2. A ti 6. The plass of fashion. (7.)

7. Nothing precedes a motor in a names less state. (7.) 8. Where, according to the poet, there I. no differentiation in the matter of quality. (4, 2, 4.)

23. Touchstone thought himself the more 24. " - Of me 20. Fiddle-town. (7.)

17. Honest weight one would expect it 18. Seen Sans getbulks. ? (2, 5.)

19. Twin horses ? (7.)

15. This may get you 8 or beat stoma. 13. Failed to get the whisky in the rain ?

fool for .being there. (5.)

you shall not win renown " (Tenny-

(5, 4.) to be. (7.)

(6, 4.) Lady Clara - de son). (4.)