"The Spectator" Crossword No. 215

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1„ Wind-instruments played by ear • 10. This militiaman is all reticence.

13. " Tell me where is fancy . . . 1" 14. My first is unchecked in 13 down, my second in 1 across. - 15. Adorn with mosaics.

16. Vestment of celebrant.

19. Is not vulgar with it.

20. Suitable kind of author for a haunted house.

21. You can always find a meal in this vessel.

22. Wool extract as a basis of ointments.

23. Novice qualifying for initia- tion in Buddhism.

25. "Loveliness Needs not the foreign . . . of ornament."

26. 5 is a particular kind of this.

27. Go with this for the charge for changing paper- money into cash.

28. rev. " Eye of newt, and . . . of frog."

29. German warship that es- caped from battle off Falkland Islands.

30. " With mirth in funeral, and with . . . in marriage."

31. " Shall I not take mine ... in mine inn f " 32. Panic-monger.

DOWN 1. This marshy land is nearly always joyful.

2. This, I suppose, would be the favourite seat of Europe's military dic- tators ! 3. The Armistice of 1918 was signed here.

4. My first is unchecked in 32, my second in 9.

5. Pertaining to a religious order founded by' St. Angela Merici.

6. " Of all that is most beau- teous imaged there

In happier beauty, more . . • streams-" 7. Ecstasy.

8. rev. He's at the inside.

9. A toothless animal that commenced in paradise ?

11. No asses (anag.).

12. When it gets in a tempo- rary mood.

13. The French and Bavarians were defeated here in 1704.

17. rev. These have obtained legal majority.

18. This fruit is the source of many a slip !

24. It takes a bulky mass of wood to make , this ship's apparatus.

28. rev. Oddly enough, this commences a proposal tending to make peace !