THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 569
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ACROSS
1. Flay before play. (7, 6.) 8. The leopard offers wide choice of such location. (2, 3, 4.) 10. Macaulay's days of old. (5.) 11. The better that is appealed to. (4.) 12. A composer, but not of the " Ring," though possibly in or wearing it. (4.) 13. Shake up the serum, uncle. (5.) 15. It was getting dull till we went south-east. (5.) 16. With which to press a black suit. (7.) 18. Subject of Henley's speculative action. (7.) 21. Christian name of a clerical college window. (5.) 23. Not the goods, evidently. (5.) 25. Mr. F. had one. (4.) 26. Capital clumge of song. (4.) 28. The creeper misses the post, but still may provide. (5.) 29. Dread of the cocktail mixer ? (9.)
30. So treating one of them was a great if legendary punishment. (7, 6.)
DOWN
1. That angry remark about somebody ? (5, 9.) 2. Afflicted with 29. (7.) 3. Never missing from the equipment of a dentist. (4.) 4. Wet planet. (7.)
5. Evidently brose won't make one intoxicated. (5.)
6. He thought nothing of freezing, so to speak. (7.) 7. But it's no good taking one's testi- monials to the sweatshop. (8, 6.) 9. Digs to receive the cash. ( .)
14. How irritating a crumpled leaf can be I (4.)
17. Love an it was play. (4.) 19. Sparkle. (7.) 20. A great figure in Ephesus. (5.) 21. He wasn't a Minister of Food. (7.) 22. There's something good about Italian wine. (7.) 24. The actress might have been the loser. (5.) 27. " Why let the strucken deer go weep. The - ungalled play " (Shake- speare). (4.)
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