THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 768

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6 " Till then, my noble friend, upon this' (Shakespeare). (4.)

10. That serpentine girl of romance. (5.) 11. Evidently empty unless one has a hand in it. (3. 6.) 12. Thin ice does this meal. (9.) 13. Made by a bird In it frantic hurry. (5.)

14. Ten men rest. (Anag.) (10.) 16, Mixed meal for the horse. (4.) 18. • Deep as first - and wild with

all regret " (Tennyson). (4.) 20. Authorship acclaimed with some expression. (5, 5.) 23. Might it almost have been a smelt 7 (5.)

24. Does it prevent the spilling of the Milky Way '1 (6, 3.)

27. Waistcoat I might turn blue. (9.) 28. Last case river. (5.)

29. " Doubly sweet a brotherhood in-" (Keats). (4.)

30. Slanders like long-haired cats- almost. (10.)

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I. 20's Baiderstone. (5.)

2. Little players may be In themselves. (7.)

" To you, from falling hands, we throw the - " (McCrac). (5.) Vital turnover In a Welshman's kin. (9.) Hermit adjutants. (9,) It's a sole. (Anag.) (8.)

A poet wrote a haunch of H. (7.) Activity of zero to the nth. I terminate. (2. 3. 2.) 17. 19.