THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 222

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ACROSS

t. The shape of " things " to come.

(7, 5.) E. Almost a race of he-men coming out.

9. Change the composer slightly to pro- duce a Scot in the Russian fleet.

Ir. Twice it returns about an ex- clamation.

12. How old is the bovine creature?

34. A Napoleonic pose useless to soldiers. (6, 4.) 36. Somewhere East of Suez.

is. What a fellow Robin was.

19. Sound recurrence.

21. Inevitably they are in the past tense. 22. Agitate-there just isn't room to put one's foot in it. (4, 2.) 25. Hamlet was told to.

26. He makes Rogers sag.

27. Sparc parts, in one sense of the word.

DOWN

1. This note isn't s8.

2. An air from Longfellow.

3. I get an encore.

4, 24. It get one 72. (4, 5, 5.) 5. Not to be confused with a tug.

6. Trollope, however, had nothing to do with A.R.P. (3, 6.)

7- Apparently they don't confuse one profoundly. 70. But they are not responsible for evergreens. (5, 7.) 13. A toe charms here, perhaps.

55. Hardy but tepid person.

ry. The accursed thing.

20. " A loaf of bread,' the - said, ` Is what we chiefly need.'" (Carroll.) 23. Evidently the Ruskin are out.

24. See 4.