f`. THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 238

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ACROSS •

2. What an employer in need of stenographers is !

8. My first and second are unchecked in 2 across.

9. You can best illustrate this instrument by slides ! 13.

16. Carries on with age !

17. Poetically change ends for bowling.

19. rev. Inexperienced person with S.

20. rev. Theatrical protection for the dressing-rooms ?

22. Accounting for the formation of words.

24. For example : 0.K: 25. This part of a newspaper must suffer extremely ! (Two words.) 27. rev, This part of the body is found in 9.

28. rev. Wife, to speak jocularly.

29. " . . fellows of the baser sort." (Acts.)

31. If disarmament comes; can we stand to. our these ?

32. An unwelcome sea-voyager.

DOWN

I. Always has a come-back.

2. Such doing of damage deter- mines the wear of a wooden shoe.

3. This should get not a single holiday I 4. An unchecked letter. of t, geminated.

rev. See 19.

rev. " Everyone is the . . . of his own works." (Cer- vantes.)

7. rev. 3o grown longer is very small.

9. Stern Tom (anag.).

to. You can always find your girl at home in this house !

rev. The millionth of a metre.

12. This musical art begins with a postscript !

14. Forbidden.

15. rev. Furniture of this kind half amounts to nothing.

18. rev. He said : " I have not loved the world, nor the world me."

21. rev. Part of the family tree ? 23. rev. One in combinations. 26. rev. A faceless beard. 29. rev. See 3o.

3o. rev. Prosperity with 29.