THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 464

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ACROSS

I. Advice to a wench with untidy locks. (3, 2, 4.) 5. Acid or I appear in a past age. (5.) 8. "Thrice is he - that bath his quarrel just" (Shakespeare). (5.) 9. Alice dips (snag.). (9.)

11. Can one turn this performer on and off? (9.)

12. Is a beginning missing from the name? (5.) 13. I cut up a fellow at sea. (4.) 14. Age qualification for a key-man. (9-) 18. A dim graph may be made of this. (9.) 21. It takes a long time to get most of one's wages. (4.)

23. The talk of the town, perhaps. (5.) 25. Equal the negative and where. (9.) 27. She didn't make the expected sacri- fice. (9.)

28. "Strew on her and never a spray of yew" (Arnold). (5.)

29. Banns are published for those who intend (2, 3.)

30. It's faults that are their undoing, (9.)

DOWN

1.A dishonest growth. (5.)

2. A 1 dn. which makes little Philip a nobody, .9.)

deduction 3. By dedun Bellario was one. (6.)

4. Is it ill ? No, just unlawful. (7.) 5. Mordant advice to a footballer. (8.) most part a lady capsized in 6. For the a mount. (5.) 7.They make rattling good music. (9.) 10. Shakespearean trash (5.) 13. It could be still made. (9.) 15. The solution may be on the green. (3.) 16. They progress by stops. (9.) 17. Crowded. (S.) 19. Tree like an enclosure. (5.) 20. Wine which might be in the manner of the war god. (7.)

22. Cast be raised east of Suez. (6).

24. After saying this Tweedledum shut his mouth up again with a snap. (5.) 26. They provide a breathing space. (5.)