THE "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 639

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ACROSS

1., Two condimenets for lamb. (10.) 8.. Corn bug. that seems addicted to food.

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9. Wooden brass-hats. (5.) 10_ " Though on pleasure she was bent she had a - mind " (Cowper). (6.) 11. So Leo isn't tight. (S.)

13. Don't believe it ducky ! (6.) 15. News of the water ? (7.)

16. , One expects improvement after this. 17. Rubbish in decline; (6.) 19. Rope of delineation. (7.) 22. - Not to be rocked when the 19 works

in them. (7.)

25. A man of law not motoring. (6.) 27; It protects the wearer at the front. (Si

28. Her lock became a star. (7.)

30. Smoked fish on the bank ? (6.) 32. Danger of .a fairy at 50. (5.) 34. Meredith's farmer should have been a fireman. (6.) 35. She wrote " jan of the Windmill." (5.) 36. Not horseshoes but the next best • thing, it seems. (5.) 37. Only the skinflint can get the first half out of the second. (10.)

DOWN

1. .A favourite Shavian missive. (8.) 2. Shrimp Senr. (5.) 3. could make forfeits of them. (7.)

4. A dull fellow but warm and handy. (4.) 5. Daughter of Alcinous. (8.) 6, Disguise of the journalist Mark. (5.)

7. " - was it in that dawn to be alive " (Wordsworth). (5.) 8. Bad mixed gin is evil. (6.)

12. A character in " Pilgrim's Progress."

14. She might be -t poem. (3.

15. Gratuitous information. (3. 18. Calling of a Hanoverian. (6 ) 20. Delhi rag (snag.). (4. 4.) 21. " 'Tis the talk and not the -, that's the crime " (Lansdowne). (8.) 23. The land army should be familiar with them. (6.) 24. Upshot of a postscript. (3.) 25. The Congo lacks negation. (3.) 26. Ada'e met` yield garlands. (7.) 28. The foo` turn to be a princess. (5.) 29. " Carry a - in a frown and wink a reputation down " (Swift). (5.) 31. Decorous but comes to nothing. (5.) 33. Wreck of a scene of mutiny, and

where. (4.)