THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. Too

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Across

1. Brainless as meagre as lizards "

(Calverley.) (11.)

9. Valued once at a kingdom. (5.1

10. Numerical self. (6. 3.)

11. Vesper confused before the end. (9.) 12. Six with a motor. (5.)

13. Advice to the introvert. (4. 3.) 15. Present at Belshazzar's festival. (7.) 17. Donkey with tail short again, is

dangerous. (7.) 19. This duck might become Bacchus. (7.)

21. Keep on tearing the place. (5.) 23. Nigel's van (anag.) (9.) 25. Study enforcing discipline. (9.)

26. Make-up of a royal house. (5.) 27. The 26 of a jester. (3, 3. 5.)

Down

1. Many take a hand in them. (9.) 2. She stands for peace. (5.) 3. Keen fellow who makes play on words ? (7.) 4. There was said to be divinity in odd ones. (7.) 5. Even trade might get like this. (9.1 6. " Budge doctors of the - fur " (Milton.) (5.)

7. Printers and worshippers take different views of it. (6.) 8. Measures to be French in writing (6.) It doesn't, however, terminate the music. (5, 4.) v'attl Comfortable circumstances of letting it be so ? (9.)

" We're foot, slog, slog, slog. sloggin' over -" (Kipling.) (6.)

It occurs in the Siberian winter. (7.) Scene of a jolly good lathering. (4, 3.)

Associated with narcissus in fiction. (6.) It was in the breast of Burns's mouse. (5.) Housed by Patmore. (5.) 14.

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