"The Spectator" Crossword No.24

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29 ACROSS 1. " Knightsbridge , serv- ing fairies, Stars of proud Belgravian airies " (Gilbert). 6. Give up.

10. Remember the sad fate of the sculptor ? He makes faces and this.

11. It's hot before a numbei and a child. - 12. Sion confused.

13. Lunatics, peers and aliens are for the House of Com- mons.

15. 'Light often sung of in church.

16. Lilliputian garment for a Scottish rock.

19. John, Giles, or Phineas.

20. Jewish priest's assistant.

23. Elephant's summonses ? (two words). 25. In Peter Pan.

27. The cockney's bee-container. after a consequence is good for something.

28. In Ayrshire or Bengal. 29. Take me back from a Jew for a place.

30. A letter ffom the Pope.

DOWN 1. Moisten a pen for a golf club.

2. A famous don's mount.

3. Behead an animal for direction.

4. " Leonidas on a one-eye'd ass Came riding into -, He'd been to buy A pigeon pie, Likewise a pair of f " (Burnand). - 5. The traveller crossing it may find two Sundays in the week.

7. Put in a bath, or in a best , for rowing instruction.

8. Put a thousand into the confusion of Exeter.

9. The opposite of an authority on the Brontës. 14. Football manoeuvre.

17. A pain follows a principle. 18. I tag none (snag. ). 19. Hamlet suffered from it (he wished that it would melt).

21. Sounds like an American whisky-and-soda in a cock- ney's mouth, but it's all my eye. 22. Of clouds or wool.

24. Not 27.

26. The precious stone ad- dresses a frienii.