"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 576

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ACROSS

I. Only one out of three found it " rare and refreshing fruit." (5, 2, 7.) 10. Cooked with a comb ? (7.) 11. This blight bir 1 is a fellow with a family attachment. (7.) 12. Well-read buttons. (5.) 13. A snail sat for this adversary. (9.) 14. Turn a leg to Harrington. (7.) 16. Relation apostrophised by Stevenson. (4.) 19. " - and calumny, and hate and pain . . ." (Shelley). (4.) 20. Division is his strong point. (7.) 23. These titmice have beards. (9.) 25. Suffered by those whose overtures are discouraged. (5.` 26. The mistake of the early woman cyclist. (7.) 27.. (7.) Stone which is fruit with in within.

28. Suitable material for Galahad's sword. (9. 5.)

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2. Ah, prying in a cap. (8.) 3. Fifty nut on airs, and where. (5.) 4. A trying sort of place, not to be con- fused with Bill. (3, 6.) 5. Domestic but without nervous trouble. (5.)

6. I divide what is passed at 4. (9.)

7. Not a tree growing bacon. (6.) 8. Indicate it is not in the river. (6.) 9. Little science with half a boot. (7.) 15. "Thus he bore without abuse the grand old name of - (Tenny- son. k9.)

16. One has no choice but to follow them. (9.)

17. Half was between high and low water. (8.'

18. Here the old crocks hann oth. (7.) 21. Brutus and Cassius heatedly fell crit concerning the taking of them. (6.) 22. Place associated with two 15's. (6.) 24. "Rose a - of ninety years" (Tennyson). (5., 25. A fresh criterion. (5.)