"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 264

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ACROSS

1. A coin and a quarter of it for a mount. (5, 8.)

9. A sign of successful incubation. (9.)

ic. Island of left-wing poultry? (5.)

I I. Warrant officer full of tea, and appar- ently heated. (5.) 72. Does this go to the barber's or the laundry? (9.)

The Arno isn't the same, like this. (7.)

75. How the captain Came aboard-and where. (7.) I 7. For catching the fish for Good Friday? (7.) 79. Briefly, its Susan's. (7.) 1. A grown-up nursery doughboy? (6, 3.) 21. Where to be and vote. (5.) A stupid fellow turns his back and so is this. (5.) 25. Its anagram is WO Tare. (9.) 26. The extremes of illustration. (5, 3, 5.)

DOWN

2. As the French might tell us, the English Channel. (5, 4.) ,. He could be human. (5.) 4. How a recipient of the Order of the Bath feels? (7.) 5. This for keeps. (7.) 6. The teak ones were, but the steel ones are even more so. (9.) 7. If she turns up, I utter a note of dis- tress. (5.)

8. College bishop. (6.)

9. The ocean apostrophised. 5.)

14. In this respect an Or'enta may be said often to indulge. 9.)

16. Enthely canonised coloured leader, but only his first name. (9)

17. A sailor and I enhanced by an enthusiast. (6.) 18. Did Tom Bowling take part in one? (7.) 19. Whence emerges a Dr. Kant. (7.)

20. 23 aCCOSS mixture. (5.)

22. It sounds like Cromwell. (5.) 23. At least his end wasn't common- place. (5.)