THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 246

BY ZENO

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ACROSS , There is no possibility of being thus dispirited if you have lock-jaw !

7. My first is unchecked in 20, my second in I down. 9. Parisians.

14- A flighty Greek prefix.

16. Keats and Shelley do this to an urn and a skylark respectively.

18. Theatrical part of the stomach ?

19. "Throw the (19 and 3b) in after the bucket."

zo. One among debtors, yoa will find, idles.

21. rev. Means of exit.

22. rev. Cerberus often gets this.

23. Green Alpine parrot before an article.

24. Two kings.

25. Gives a musician his abrupt manner.

21. rev. This, 3 and 17's un- checked letter is fashionable.

28. "Oaks from little . . . s."

29. French military cap.

30. See 19.

35. Stone with both ends purple- brown.

32. The proverb says : Better be up to the. . . s than over head and ears.

33. This part of a tree should be able to resist the force of anything.

34. rev. Johnson calls Addison's style " . . but not osten- tatious."

1.

DOWN 1. The mouse would not agree that this is used to catch applause !

2. Troublesome person, animal, or thing.

3. About as steady.

4. Where an aviator should keep his watch ?

5. Being so cold at heart, no wonder this person is luke- warm!

6. Cotton fabric found in a corner.

8. Seen Peter (ansig.). to. Snub from a snob ?

1. Breaking ground in a book is often laborious.

12. New Paragraph.

13. Some might think this justi- fied if you get to sing with a sound like a steam-whistle !

15. Where to find : "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."

17. Shirking conduct.

22. Father from another point of view.

26. To rebuke requires a state of readiness.