THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 646
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ACROSS
I. Motor with a king of rhyme. (8.)
5. Excavator's suit. (6.) 9. Worse in the light, too much harsh talk (8.) 30. "Heap -, sandal-buds and stripes of labdanum " (Browning). (5.) 11. Abode of blondes and jumpers? (4, 4.) 32. Laid up but not necessarily ill. (6.) /4. They simply pull people to pieces. (10.) 38. Tan counsel (snag.) (10.)
22. Little Tommy stems to have done a bit of sewing. (6.)
23. "These strong - fetters I must break " (Shakespeare). (8.) 24. Foundered canoes. (6.) 25. Ted's confused, roar about him. (8.)
26. 0 show assent in my embrace. (6.) 27. Jealous stones. (8.)
DOWN
1. It must be a large one that overflows the cafe. (6.) 2. It grows in airs. (6.)
3. " That land of - oatcake F and sulphur" (Sydney Smith). (6.)
4. What to expect of St. John's Wood cricketers. (10.) 6. Cool cats with iihosts? (8.)
7. "To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their - " (Blake). (8.)
8. Kicked up by top-liners? (S.) 13. This should be safe-perhaps it is. (10.) 15. A ticket that won't take you far. (8-) 16. The blow seems to knock one side- ways. (8.) 17. Made public or private. (8.) 19. How exquisitely fine his touch, wrote Pope. (6.) 20. A character only effective when he went off. (6.) 21. A woman of it made a book. (6.)
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