THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 15

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ACROSS

I. The news is that the missile has found its mark (8).

5. It can be found in Adam's lost rib all right (6).

9. Standard of mortality (8). to. The Fleet 'twixt two and morning are found in the wood (6).

r. Indirectly there's rain round little Elizabeth (8).

12. Sailor despatched, hence this (6).

14. Food here for vegetarian and his opposite (to). 18. I tip scales to get lum (to). 22. Infuriate (6).

23. Offering (8).

24. They can be used as rope (6).

25. Knight or lady from Spen- ser (8).

26. Used by a literary gentle- man (6).

27. Tardy in a call for help I precede (8).

DOWN t. One must be simply mad to go there! (6).

2. Noise rising to a lion (6). 3. A group of nine (6).

4. I'm in it and expert with a trifling change (to).

6. They come and go, or at least Wordsworth said one of them did (8).

7. Musicians upset tradition for a flag (8). 8. Falsehood about foreign measure (8).

13. Such remarks as come out pat? (2 words) (to).

15. Do I get mixed under a flower (8).

16. One member of the Upper House fewer? (8).

17. One of Trollope's medical men (8).

19. Floating pillar-box of dis- tinguished use (6).

20. A nice morsel; but surely one would have expected it to peck, rather (z words) (6).

21. They take a great deal of interest (6).