THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 699

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Across 1. Is it the sickle one ? (7, 41 7. Introduction to sobriety. (3.) 9. lago in relation to Othello. (7.) 10. This dish is little more than a kettle- drum. (7.) II. A stringy sort of accent. (5.)

12. A wet meteorological axiom. (9.)

13. Found on an alderman's forefinger, (5.) 14. " The - to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow." (Shelley.) (8.) 19. He gives one chapter and verse for What he says. (8.)

20. National condition. (5.) 23. Spurn a hen. (Anag.) (9.) 26. His rod was miraculous. (5.)

27. He seems both noble and royal. (7.)

28. I meet the end of everything in a chopper. (7.)

29. Thus the penultimate letter makes it. (3.) 30. Cut the sailor at table. (4, 3. 4.)

Down

1. Said to be pomibly of equal quality in Belgrave Square and Seven Dials.

(6.)

2. Greet clan. (Anag.) (9.) 3: Forcible. (9.)

4. Trout's twisted. (6.) 5. Do better than Haggard ? (8.)

6. One of Collins's novels wasn't-or was

it ? (5.)

7. Hush ! A knock-out. (5.) 8. "A double - Is a double grace." (Shakespeare.) (8.) 15. A cross-tie. (Anag.) (9.) 16. Bury other things ? (5, 4.) 17. Water in dioceses. (8.) 18. Seem to turn up round Lang. (8.) 21. A hunt's got insular. (6.) 22. " He'd run - by disputation and Pay with ratiocination." (Butler.) (2. 4.) 24. Diminutive Miss Trent. (5.)

25. Very quiet round the edge. (5.)