"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 410 [A Book Taken for one

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ACROSS

1. Artist immersed in a novel form of tintinnabulation. (8.)

5. Fire often made of wet ink. (6.) 9. Most are in it. (8.) 10. It has only been once to sea. (6.) II. Murder as sound mediums. (8.) " Lo, that - came and took the bass in it I " (Gilbert). (6.) 14. Seemingly suitable food for those who bite their nails. (6, 4.) 18. It made a novel thing of travel. (5, 5.) 22. What, asked Browning, had become of him 1 (6.) 23. What's Mary goin' for ? (8.) 24. Some hesitation before saying it be- longs to me. (6.) 25. Route used by a go-between ? (3, 5.) 36. Cobbett's wen (6.)

27. "Mrs. , Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry fat, elderly woman . . ." (Austen). (8.)

DOWN

1. Not the wave one gets at the hair- dresser's. (6.) 2. Where to find twelve good men and true. (6.) j. Printers are less reluctant than some in admitting to them. (6.) 4. Changes about time. (to.) 6. A murder a pirate may disclose. (8.) 7. A lad goes up about it next morning. (8.) 8. An histofc hour. (8.) z3. It doesn't only occur In leap years. (to.) 15. It almost sounds as If twenty tumbled. (8.) x6. Ile keeps changing sides. (8.)

17. Green growth and nothing more In " Don Quixote." (8.)

19. "This is. -, Lord of the Earth- Fear Him and bow the knee" (Kipling). (6.) 20. He was not really a Chinese soldier. (6.) 21. How people get about. (6.)