"The Spectator" - Crossword No. Ao By X.NTHIPPE.

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ACROSS 1. Shaky notes.

5. Applaud a bit of pork in South London.

)l. Make a hash of nine veg.

10. Jump after a beheaded religious woman, like Prome- theus.

11. Bolsheviks, one would imagine, never use this size of type. 12. Stumbles forward, sprint back.

13. Contraction of the heart, with its end round a clergy- man's neck.

15. Convert.

16. Scotland Yard turns back when in a coil. 18. " Titch " is no prisoner.

22. Trophy coveted by the brave.

23. A delicacy-to spoil a French invalid, apparently.

25. Surround the post with • beer for one of twelve. .

26. In it I come before an ex- Governor of New York.

27. A little less than less and more than kind.

28. Resentments.

DOWN

'1. Equinoctial passed by the Vapians.

2. Much explored by politic- ians.

3. Skimping. 4. Ladies beyond the Alps. 5. Rise, cur (snag.).

6. Umpire.

7. Famous man at getting himself out of tight places.

8. Modest, I Y No, it's a lady. 14. Politic a je (snag.).

16. " We have procured a num- ber of red -s for the choir," said the misprinted parish magazine.

17. A popular. ,myinery, accord- ing to Gilbert.

18. They cling, and hi the end - they're favourites- 19. And Country Y But it's like a serpent's tongue. 20. Not to' be found at the bar.

21. Almost unnecessary rend, ins implements. 24., The last word.