6 DECEMBER 1940, Page 27

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 91

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ACROSS

I. Just the opera for the front (8).

5. Schumann wrote some famous fantasie ones (6).

9, to. Like other young couples' theirs was largely a house problem (3 words) (5, 3, 6).

12. Plant of an authoress of our youth (4).

13. Select chaps and give them tea (so). 15. What Lady Macbeth did (12). 19. " Who paid the rent for Mrs.

- - , when - - was asleep? " (3 words) (3, 3, 6)-

22. Force soles from this (10).

24. " Nine - rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee " (Yeats) (4).

26. " Through that same garden after me - - " (Omar) (2 words) (2, 4).

2.7. Render lip service (8).

28. " - to Adventurers " (Buchan) (6).

29. A journal for the R.A.F.? (8).

DOWN

1. The Fates (6).

2. Unanimously (2 words) (3, 3).

3. He looked at the time with lack lustre eye (4).

4. These are made round the defeated (5).

*6. With confidence (so).

7. A book by Dickens round Bur- lington House (8).

8. One gets a hand's to one's name in the end (8).

is. Describing the architectural style of the Bank of England? .(6).

14. It's no charm he conceals (to).

16. He took a scientific interest in print (6).

17. Discoveries go with them (8).

18. Much can be got on it (8).

20. " Fold their tents like the Arabs? "

(6).

21. Briefly where the earring goes (6). 23. A supporter of art (5)- 25. A depressing relief (4).