"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 325

BY ZENO

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ACROSS

x. These thieves must be impossibly strong !

Io. You can't have parties in this kind of a state.

14. This kind of a motor-boat has no engine in it !

77. Gets sprightly with 27.

18. Where or when two or three modistes gather together ? 20. Cut its lair (anag.).

22. with 30. A reducing row of persons ?

23. In the fore-arm.

2,4. To reveal one's true nature this way is monumental.

25. Even 29 across can have a square one !

26. Rewards.

27. rev. See 17 across.

29. rev. A coterie that's never crooked.

31. rev. It's not his. 32. rev. No, not the best things to wrap the delicate in 1 (Two words.) DOWN 1. What the miserly should travel as ?

2. A rowdy whose head is hard to recognise ?

3. Received from a father. Vowels.

5. He uses himself at sea.

6. rev. He is not apart with this.

4.

7. with 29 down. A Great Lake.

8. Easier to catch in a calm sea ?

9. Take away 21 and what is left I tell.

xi. You probably do not want to turn this reptile.

72. rev. A lad made this into a simple song.

73. rev. There's something obli- gatory about this wine.

15. rev. Stipulation that is in favour of six also.

16. They undoubtedly form not only automobile clubs.

77. Enters upon an office.

79. rev. A very seasonable name. 21. rev. In many an American pocket.

28. Though there's nothing to the article, they make it laugh loudly.

29. See 7.

30. See 22.