"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 451

ACROSS

1. Unopposed passage 'of the Red Sea. (8.)

5. Some profess to find a fortune in it. (6.) 9. Six-legged hen. (8.) 10. The vulture has left the inn to its partner. (6.) 12. They sound like large numbers of singers. (6.) 13. Could these apartments be found in a fiat ? (8.)

15. Is this what the swan is doing when preening herself ? (8, 4.) IS. To do it may be a sound method of feigning sickness. (5, 3, 4.)

23. A process with light and shade. (8.)

24. What's another name for a tutor ? (6.)

26. A bit of problematical stitching is a crime. (6.) 27. Hate evil (snag.). (8.) 28. Mrs. Moke. (3, 3.) 29. Stiffens (8.)

DOWN

1. 16. Are these the projects that start from scratch in a mews ? (7, 7.)

2. Where to get the low-down on a City king. (6.)

3. Isle of Wight biscuit. (7.) 4. " 0 my princess ! true she But in her own grand way" (Tenny- son). (4.) 6. Getting level at dusk. (7.)

7. Unfit ? Take the motor first and get on with it. (8.)

Can be made game of, pant as he may. (B.) He painted " Moses striking the Rock." (7.)

14. Picture that might be quite fetching had it started differently. (7.)

16. See 1 down.

17. A task for the second month. (4, 4.)

19. The solution is where the pavement ends. (7.)

20. Abode of the Cockney highway-man. (7.)

21. Thief s theme-song ? (6.) 22. Literary efforts (6.) 25. The majority will provide it. (4.)

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