"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 425

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1. Though unfit seems to have taken nourishment. (10.) 6. It doesn't hinder the organist. (4.)

9. Singularly placid. (4.) 10. Mother is tongue-tied faced with risk. (9.)

13. Moan 0 poet! (anag.). (9.)

14. Poetic old body. (S.) 15. Victory horses. (4.) 16. " A wind blew out of a cloud, chill- ing My beautiful -" (Poe). (7, 3.) 19. Openings for artillerymen. (10.)

21. Most of the tail is out, but it was

short already. (4.) 24. The Maid of Lorn. (5.) 25. Mouthed example of 6. (9.) 27. His wife was, so to speak, very enter- taining (3, 6.) 28. Race of timber horses. (4.) 29. " Rise, honest muse! and sing the Man of -" (Pope). (4.)

30. Used for coloured gas-lighting at the College of Arms? (4, 6.)

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2. An alternative to Westminster Abbey. (7.) 3. Airs from Milton. (6.) 4. Pair divided by a medical man from the films. (5.) 5. It makes Peter tame. (9.)

7. Botanical aspect of the activity of a small barrack-square party. (7.)

8. Leap in, ferret! (snag.). (12.)

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In this the player simply must stick it.

(6.) From whom to get two lots of rations on one book. (6, 6.) Newcastle abroad. (9.) Little and sweet. (6.)

" Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane, Preserved the -" (Shake- speare). (7.) In this case one can touch pitch without being defiled. (v.)

A light crown. (6.)

Show in a box. (5.)