THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 223

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ACROSS

I. What the angler got and with what. (5, 4-)

6. That's funny!

9. Doubled, you don't say so! so. One of Keats's nightingale's audience of two.

I I. Who sounds like a place in Kent?

12. It is cut with ceremony at ceremony. (7, 4-) 14, 20. Sell Ernest in this.

15. Wordsworth heard a thousand such notes in a grove.

Ti. Browning was concerned with this man in Italy.

20. See 14.

22. It often leads to a few words with a stranger. (5, 6.) 24. Anything but letters of credit.

25. Such 8 social lapse would be sur- prising in a model. (3, 4.) 27. It IS for them to prevent people finding an outlet.

28. She disguises her anger. 29. The R.A.F. provide these birds in great numbers.

DOWN

s. His task is traction despite the apparent lapse from logic.

2. A poor weapon for the duel!

3. To have been observed when the poet was making one of his puns?

4. No side I find in him.

5. This is in the make-up of the hotel 6. Lifted by winners.

7. What things have WC seen- done at the - " (Beaumont.) 8. A bitter thing, but it might be sugar abroad. 13. Heard, perhaps, chez Henry Hall.

(3, 6.) 16. Uses birds for making payments.

18. Brag is one, but Holdfast is a better.

(4, 3.) 19. It seems the appropriate utensil for the serving of punch. (4. 3.)

21. She is subject to a senile change.

22. Famed for 8 last waltz.

23. Of course, if one decapitates a gun- man.