THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 717

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Across

1. Figures of human entanglement. (9.) 6. Shaped like a little beast ? (5.)

9. How French uniforms are decorated ? (7.) 10. Cousin, perhaps, to the " bird of the wilderness." (7.) II. " Odours, when sweet violets -, live within the sense they quicken." (Shelley.) (6.) 12. Example where golfers specialise. (8.)

14. " Me by his side come hot from -." (Shakespeare.) (4.)-

15. " Clad in complete steel."-no, seems to have battled in some other metal. (10.) 18. How, on reflection; things appear in the wet. (10.) 19. She wasn't seventeen, but she was tall and stately. (4.) 21. Gilbert's foot-in-the-grave young man was so yallerY. (7.) 23. Its synonym is In goal. (6.)

26. Among the arts are a politician and I. (7;.) 27. She had a hundred fighters on deck and ninety sick below. (7.)

28. The penitent are. (5.) 29. American terms. (9.)

Down

1. Outstanding trifles hunted by the ambitious. (5.) 2. Examples of 1 across. (9.) 3. It reverses part of what Annie was told to do. (6.)

4. Object of worship adapted for pleasure. (4.) 5. Habitat of a simple character (6, 4.)

6. Coots run-into the soup probably. (8.)

7. How can one find him ? Oh in a hank of hair. (5.) 8. " He's half • absolved who has -." (Prior.) (9.)

13. These birds are expensively tipped. (10.) 14. It let slip the sands of time. (9.)

16. Macadam had it' no doubt. (4. 5.) 17. It can't always be proved without a passport. (S.) 20. Sexton's wine. (6.) 22. Gantry followed him. (5.)

24. Requirements. (5.)

25. Rave a drink and the doctor nest morning. 14.)