THE, "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 624
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ACROSS
9. Legislation prohibiting games ? (3, 3, 2, 7.) 10. Edible nonsense. (5.) 11. A plant that deals, it seems, in real estate. (9.) 12. Her man's in the Armoured Division. (7.) 13. They prevent the wireless from living up to its name. (7.) 14. Not a sugar mixture, being bitter. (9.) 21. Increase. (7.) 23. A scratch product having protective value. (7.) 24. Vehicle permitted round Rio. (9.) 25. " St. - Eve: Ah, bitter cold It was I " (Keats). (5.) 26. One, perhaps. who prefers twos to threes. (7, IL)
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1. -Hc, so to speak, should cut a good figure. (7.) 2. It sounds a place given up to plan- ning. (7.) 3. Good with a boat. no doubt, but a fixture if it freezes. (S.) 4. The rhyme about big and little fleas was written by Augustus de - ? (6.) 5. " Appal the free, confound the - " (Shakespeare). (8.) 6. He built his own tomb in the garden of " Wahnfried." (6.) 7. Relative (7.) ' fun and 8. A man of push and go. (7.) 15. Produces a superabundance of eggs ? (8.) 16. Slim race (snag.). (8.) 17. He wrote " Paper Money Lyrics."
7 18. (Cotton state. (7.)
19. They may be, as it were, initially designed. (7.) 20. They saw much that was intended for other eyes. (7.) 22. Descriptive of the celebrated Mr. Parker. (6.) 23. " A - of the desk, a notched and Crept scrivener " (Lamb). (6.)
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