"The Spectator" Crossword No. 73

BY XANTHIPPE.

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6 7 a 9 10 ACROSS.

1. The goal of aeronauts.

I. Famous explorer.

4. Half a French literary partnership.

6. Transatlantic city in little.

7. 2nd and 3rd of 1 Down. S. Stories.

1. Needs additional weight to he a new peer.

I. Spies are (3 words). 3. Dog of the prairies twice curtailed.

4. A Dominion.

5. Famous Thames-side house near London.

6. Tributary of the Thames.

8. Beginning of 35 reversed.

It rev. This nasty little fellew brings illness.

2. "She's all right. She has all the illustrated papers" (W. S. Gilbert).

4. What Miranda remembered (if it was on the French side of the mountains).

) rev. A toast.

6. Ends in fury, but it's all an illusion.

DOWN.

l. Ills singing-pupil gave her name to a hat.

2. Home of the Tarasque and of a Daudet character.

3. A Corps minus an article. 4. Agatha Christie knows how Roger died. 5. Fruit, vegetable, or what

6. Sanitas . . .

I. Turn up a doctor for a famous humorist's initials. S. John Buchan's Richard.

9 rev. A colleague of The Man Who Was Thursday. 10. Literary bird with a sadly limited vocabulary.

19. Raw material of statistics. 13. W. S. Gilbert wrote of a mystic one.

15. Homer does.

19. His apple-cart was upset. 22 rev. R. L. S. wrote of a black one.

24. Game down, domestic uten- sils up. • 27. Pooh-Bali was asked not to insert his.

29. A bone with outward thanks removed.

30. The sea across the sea.

31. Macbeth murderer's epithet for one of his victims. 33. The menagerie lacks nothing.