"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 166

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ACROSS

I've a chill, Ma, he makes out.

Come dear by the 6.5o and bring the salad.

Distinguished but powerless.

Such help as one gets in shops? Return the clothes and boast.

Now folds the lily all her sweet- MSS up, And slips into the — of the lake." (Tennyson.) Gists the man in the moon a chance to get buttered up.

A chit from Mr. Montagu Norman? "The — on the wing." (Brown- ing.)

House agent's- hindrances.

Employee in reserve. (3 wds.) 4, 2, 4.) Gin hive (snag.). "Content of spirit must from science low, For 'tis a — attribute to know." (Prior.) - Sweet substitute for Pollux in com- bination. (2 wds.) (6, 5.)

DOWN

Have some coffee! I linger by my shingly bars; I biter round my —." (Tennyson.) The parson's evidently ready for a flutter on the Stock Exchange.

Smith's prototype.

Caroline disguised as honeysuckle.

6. Ten, thanks!

7. And hops!

8. Scrape.

13. Dan's asleep by the sea.

14. Robert S. Leigh? 16. Embassy bags? IS. MacGregor's heath.

20. Not quite a definition of chiropody.

21. Take plenty of time over this.

24. " In a — nighted December. Too happy, happy tree." (Keats.)

25. In short about.