" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 252 Pe IA Book

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ACROSS

Unlikely and slanderous son of footballer.

6. The sound of Morse's colds.

9. Steal superlatively.

o III, and three-quarters of the army at each end.

1. Bitter sweet.

2. It isn't a card game for one. s. Water jacket.

6. Problematical baton-case.

6. Seen it next morning coming back.

. And the mice, no doubt, are down.

2. Artist and politician slope.

3. Laminated rations.

6. Used by girls on the A.A. sites ?

7. Saturate.

6. It's done up in string. r. It will find a false note, but is no good against forgers.

DOWN

Wooden accommodation.

2. How to decorate a hunter.

-3 " When sorrows come, they come not

single spies but in . . . • (Shakes- , peare).

. To avoid footsoreness, they should go to Sea.

. Such a creature turns it over but not in his mind.

. One doesn't have CO 2 this to catch . One might hardly expect the interpre- ten to render grammatically. Shakespeare's coy tress. 13. It appears to be alarming. is. But one can't dig a confused hart out of them.

57. The Greek humorist is little more than She and I.

18. Showing the: things are not always what they seem. 20. He fought hydrophobia.

21. Oreada in hiding. 2.4. " Costly thy . . . . as thy purse can buy" (Shakespeare). 25. Enfranchised parrot.