THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 240
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ACROSS.
1. Just the man to work a small holding. 4. "Write me as one that loves his -." (Leigh Hunt.)
8. The rewards of " brief " life being here our portion? 9. " And they drank the red wine through the - barred." (Scott.) sr. I am the law, says the tree. 12. Twelve inches long. 13. Outstanding chief.
t6. Apt cats' choir (anag.). 19. The cowardly smith gets the bird. 2I. Comparatively a parent.
22. Fellow-artist in the Highlands. 23. " That orbed maiden, with white fire laden." (Shelley.) 26. Hardly the house one would call Liberty Hall.
27. But these birds have another interest besides eating.
28. Dear Rene's disguise.
29. Not a political shirt.
DOWN 1. Wherein the people run into town. 2. One of the limits in housing. 3. " Every sphere That gems the starry • girdle of the -." (Campbell.) 4. Hers seems to have been a splendid achievement. (4, 8.) 5. " Who drives fat - should him- self be fat." (Johnson.)
6. Strong as they were, they evidently lacked staying power.
7. Money out of a stone. so. Where to find the worst pupil in the art school? 14. Mother and child. 55. The only place where the weather changes nowadays? 17. Sticklers for punctuation.
18. Hot relic (anag.). 20. Gloomy. 25. Poems that don't scan.
24. " Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed -." (Wordsworth.) 25. G-man's apprentice.
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