"The Spectator" Crossword No. 81

BY XANTHIPPE.

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36 I ACROSS A cricket term won it this year.

12. This mineral water is split in 1 dn.

13. Early-morning prefix.

14. As before this of the East.

16. Maskelyne sort of cream.

17. What a bird to get!

18. Your clothes may be this divided.

19. A Hollywood necessity (for ladies).

20. When you travel this, you presumably travel farther than this.

22. Advertisement.

"5. Elegant name for a familiar stream.

28 rev. You must know him by now; he keeps cropping up nearly every week.

29. Such a race is not contested 20.

31. Jars when a poet loses his head.

32. The poor Indian. 34. In Idylls of the King.

35. Most of a sewer.

36. The bird has lost its tail, but it's still there in Rome.

37. I call once, ass (anag.).

DOWN 1. Our old friend in the loch, perhaps.

2. A vain mixture. 1. 3. A fool, but it's not his herd that he has lost.

4. City of Africa.

5. Attacks.

6. Modern composer.

7. Prospero's isle was full of them.

8. The jobs some people hanker after.

9. Foul and midnight, perhaps.

10. Act that sometimes has to be read.

11. Famous character in Caste. 15. A geological era. 21. Not in Richelieu's lexicon.

23. Actress of today.

24. Famous diva.

26. Mangled money makes a big poem.

27. Ancient American with an internal disorder.

30. Peninsula. (Be careful !) 31. Mixed use in Rome. 33. Mr. Sinclair Lewis knows all about it.