"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 486

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ACROSS

1. It's the colour that makes another. (8.) S. Wristy, as it were. (6.) 9. Maclean's in irons. (8.) 10. Started to explode. (3, 3.) 12. Bill for string? (6.) 13. Poetic set-up. (8.) 15. Dramatically associated with poison and passion. (12.)

18. He doesn't look where he's going. (12.)

23. Unfriendly. (8.) 24. " There's sic -, sic pomp and art, The joy can scarcely reach the heart" (Burns). (6.) 26. Not the body met coming through the rye. (6.) 27. All in the afternoon and later. (4, 4.) 28. The black girl loses her head coming out. (6.) 29. Friends return with elan. (8.)

DOWN

I. American soldier with mixed oint- ment. (6.)

2. It's the soothing part of the best yarn I can recall. (6.) 3. Cattle food to produce Swiss milk? (7.) 4. "I live with bread like you, feel want. Taste grief, - friends " (Shakespeare). (4.)

6. Still, Alice, mixed up with the doctor ? (7.) 7. Rabbits are. (8.)

8. Drive abroad. (4, 4.)

11. Naturally the unyielding act so. (7.) one fish 16.

The horse for blood. (7.) Mrs. Malaprop's cure for 'eadsche? (8.)

Angostura is used to. (8.) " - are such agreeable friends ; they ask no questions, they pass no

criticisms " (G. Eliot). (7.) Everybody in the store seems to be getting a boat. (7.)

Its exports are reduced to ashes. (6.) "What are my books? MY friends, my loves, My church, my tavern, and my only - " (Le Gallienne). (6.) A chilly salutation. (4.) 14.

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