" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 127

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ACROSS

a. Naturally one could catch him red-handed (ii).

9. " Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried them to thy soul with hoops of steel" (Shakespeare) (7). so. One of the ecclesiastical circles (7).

II. The drivers take in the length (so). 12. " Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the 'sea to -" (Stevenson) (4). 54. " The - or heraldry, the pomp of power " (Gray) (5). 15. Telegraphic announcement of Othello's death in A.R.P.

terms (8).

17. Puss approaches the honey (8). 19. Golden region which made a famous cruise (5).

22. His belt is not the Lonsdale

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23. One way of taking it words) (2, 3, 5). 26. Irritating subject of give and take (7). 27. As I pout in these regions (7). 28. Anthony and his family lumped together (2 words) (4> 7). DOWN a. Dress I'd follow without de- viation (5).

2. Place which makes a short doctor avid (6).

3. Simon Tappertit was one (to).

4. Gammer Gurton's was early comedy (6) (3 5. Are still corrected in proof, or should be (8).

6. Found among the mechanised forces (4). 7. The Rev. Septimus Harding (9).

g. Wordsworth's wandering voice (6).

13. Class distinction can't be dis- regarded here (so).

14. Botanically buttoned (9).

16. Confused name about a burn- ing heap (8).

x8. Customary duty (6).

20. His verses were both human

and divine (7).

25. Like Derby Day (6).

24. Concealed by the messenger (5).

25. So oft as that shall be, So often shall the - of us be call'd The men that gave their country liberty " (Shake- speare) (4).