TI1E " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 551

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24. Lovelace @ first choice. (6.) 70. Staple structures these should be, but

30. He used a rose as a messenger. (6.)

27. Subject of a Shakespearian portrait.

28. Like others of the same sort they

29. Where the ring may go to make 23. A different use of gas, laughing

10. Fish and garnish or just not such 19. Nonsense, lie on it I (4.) 11. Bowling sailor but not Tom. (5.) 12. A fair specimen of writing. (6.) 17. "- undrawn, and beards un- 13. 1 relapse into it. (8.) 6. The Coniston chap. (3, 3.)

4. Avian castle in the comer. (4.) •

3. Blind. (8.) •

7. To the unsuccessful they may PeeM 2. Fishless 10. (5.) 5. Vocal aspect of Giles Green: (4, 6.)

5. This suggests the humiliation of I. "More hands wanted" might well

aren't. (5. 5.)

(5.) one hie it ? (6.) variety, perhaps. (8.) plough. (9.) mown display Your holy reverence for the Sabbath-day" (Byron). (4.)

to have put their hands to the

good fish. (5, 4.) were in the case. (9.) be his perpetual desire. (6.)

1 Inrul Grace (snag.). (10.)

1. (6.) ACROSS 14. It must be difficult for him to het 25. Half a score and half a dozen 16. A man under authority. (9.) 18. Mother in a bent florin. .(8.) 21. Urgency. (6.)

26. See 22. (4.)

19. Off in a container. (6.) 9. Grisly in Milton. (6.) 8. All over ? Net quite. though one 14 wig Re T does get the bird. (6.)

at home. (10.)

specimens in the pound. (5.)