SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 882

ACROSS

1 Literary definition of where the shoe- maker should stick (4, 4, 4).

9 A green patch, where much is in- tended? (9) 10 'Though the dull perplexes and re- tards' (Keats) (5).

11 Put in last (6).

12 Sauce-boat (8). , 13 It would be appropriate if a hoarder endured it (6) 15 The answer has some point—it's to let (8).

18 Just the name for a horse in the 16

Eclipse Stakes (4-4). 17 19 Richard sought to write it on the bosom

of the earth (6). 18 21 It seems the place for spring wear (4,4).

23 They- are developed from changing 20 phases (6).

26 'A—is a rod and a crown is of night' 22 (Swinburne) (5).

27 Cane liars (anag.) (9). 24

28 Bowled, perhaps, by the cricketer who

ignored Miss Bell (5-7). 25

DOWN Klaproth named it after a planet (7). They seem funereal charges (5).

4 or 25 down for example (9)

The means to gambling gone chilly (4). The tardy ceremony is simply clay (8). Wrecked boats; somebody put his foot in it (5).

Go to New Zealand alone, but not north-east (7).

Bruin confused about strong desire (8). Rage in simple physic is just ordi- nary (8).

He gets on first in a mixed trial (4-5). A hooter among the rocks aiding oars- men (8).

The bully scores a forfeit with head- dress (7).

What .belonged to her will secure the nuts (7).

'How now, my metal of (Shakes- peare) (5)

It is not likely to be read without prejudice (5).

Red colonist of Greenland (4).

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