THE SPECTATOR CROSSWORD" No. 495
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ACROSS
1. Brides for footmen ? (9.) 5. It takes a great deal to make us blos- som. (5.) 8. Probably the cat did when it was. (5.) 9. Buff bird. (9.) 11. Excitement concerning porridge. (9.) 12. It sounds so sheepish ! (5.)
13. Sandwiches of it appear to have been Hood's notion of insipidity. (4.)
14. Is this wood-worker a cut above his colleague ? (9.) 18. Being evidently aquatic it should have felt quite at home when dropped into the Thames. (5, 4.) 21. Excerpt from a dramatic fantasia of Gay's. (4.) 23. "The days dividing and -, The light that loses, the night that wins" (Swinbume). (5.) 25. They develop from free roots. (9.) 27. An age when one gets confused with a French bed and this Latin. (9.) 28. Likely to be found in the soup. (5.) 29. Try this one ! (5.) 30. Dickensian relative of 14, perhaps. (3, 6.)
DOWN
1. A. and M. perhaps. (5.) 2. He wasn't averse to verse ; on the contrary. (9.) 3. Get wed in May, but it doesn't run smooth. (6.) 4. A wrinkle for getting rid of it. (4, 3.) 5. Runner prepared to accommodate an intoxicated seaman. (8.) 6. It capsizes before the finish. (5.) 7. Aaron as it might appear. (9.) 10. Accommodate a palindrome. (3, 2.) 13. A gin, Clive ? (anag.). (9.) 15. The West African dignitary twists a snake. (3.) 16. When the word of Caesar might have stood against the world. (9.) 17. " -, thou pleasing dreadful thought" (Addison). (8.)
19. Meredith provided a reading of it. (5.)
20. Leo Junior. (4, 3.) 22. She twinkles. (6.) 24. Stringed instruments. (5.)
26. The male aide. (5.)
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