"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 241

BY ZENO

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ACROSS z. A fakir is often industrious in this way !

8. Does this make the nursery a stable ?

14. Byron's "Don Juan" is written in it. (Two words.) 17. See 5.

18. The glasses to use if you wish to drink in the music !

19. Vowels.

20. Kind of lichen that grows on an old man !

23. Crush hat before a 'bus.

24. rev. The men in this coun- try are surrounded by melody.

25. Where taxes go.

27. Falconer's apparatus for re- calling hawk.

28. rev. Discourteously brief. 29. Military honour.

30. rev. . . . to church repair Not for the doctrine, but the music there."

31. rev. A sporting currency- note ?

33. ". . . of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

34. Stoppage of circulation of any of the fluids of the body.

DOWN 1. After the gate-crasher, no doubt, you will need to dis- seminate.

2. A cook should excel at writ- ing this kind of book ! 3. This element turns dark in sunlight.

rev. Slang discharges.

rev. Cure with 17.

rev. There's nothing wrong about this, 7. Glide is possible from this kind of weather.

9. Animal that has progressed by leaps and bounds.

ro. Piano-keys.

r I. Swiss town popular with mice, I should think !

12. Kind of person rarely en- countered. (Two words.)

13. rev. "perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse and rigg'd with . . . dark."

15. rev. Easily bent with the following.

16. rev. Laugh uncontrollably. zr. Legally taking possession. 22. rev. Handle to awkwardly.

26. "it will never

. . . into nothingness." 32. rev. Supposition.

6.