7 JANUARY 1949, Page 33

" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 511

ACROSS

I. Ship-building materials from the stove ? (8.)

5. The Sappers in Goliath's habitation.

(6.) 10. One might get a pelt with this money. (5.) 11. One of these takes a walk in west London. (9.) 12. Run date (snag.). (7.) 14. Favouring church but not sacred.

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15. A turn must I take out of this ? (10.) 16. I've a notion it's in Gidea Park. (4.) 19. Ah me, the old journalist returns. (4.) 21. " Rash-embraced despair, And fear, and green-eyed jealousy I " (Shakespeare). (10.) 24. Read the letter backwards, it con- tains no lie and has the post-script in the middle. (7.) 25. This demands looking facts in the face. (7.) 26. Are they rung at the forme door ? (9.) 28. ' Through the long - aisle and fretted vault. . ." (Gray). (5.) 29. Dash about in nationality. (6.) 30. Ruskin was literally two up on this.

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1. She should have been above sus- picion. (9.) 2. Brings in. (7.) 3. Where a motor is buried in the Sudan (8.) 4. Located by Hamlet. (3.) 6. It may be found in branch or root. (6.) 7. Henley was poetically concerned about his devotion to it. 7.) 8. One of the few things a man can make from nothing. (5.) 9. Undo a tangle in proper surround- ings. (10.) 13. Pawnbroker from Amsterdam ? (5, 5.) 17. One may observe a stern mug in these. (9.) 18. A girl on hand, but it's broken. (8.) 20. No better than fourth, evidently. (4, 3.) 22. " When the blast of war blows in our ears,. Then - the action of the tiger " (Shakespeare). (7.) 23. Round objects, may be Gloucestershire. (6.) 24. Hoped for a vestment. (5.) 27. Whoso can hold it, said Cicero, has command of the situation. (3.)