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ACROSS

Kipling's precise writing. (4. 22 7.) S. Fortunes round the rig of the ships. 9. Tweed man.

12. A god in melting mood?

Battle chair.

4. The dose should go round.

17. The Mother of Timothy.

18. Pan's leg is so bright.

20. There should be enough of this at

a stretch.

22 Rural punchbowl.

23. An exclamation with fish.

26. A very heady blow.

27. A bit of cotton.

30. This region might be sorted.

31. As deaf as the first, one might not hear the second.

32. Tapers and lanthoms are not examples of them. (7, 6.)

DOWN

2. He's in "The King's Arms."

3. It gets holed.

4. It often enables one to get at one's food.

5. Broken by MaSOLL 6. It all depends.

7. Sub rosa. (3, 3, 6.) Is. Natal mouthfuls for some. 21. An armful, perhaps.

15. Sharp's the word.

26. Not a hero worshipper.

sp. Get out with little science.

21. Wash -.

23. Or tin it might be. 26. "Creeping like snail unwillingly

to -." (Shakespeare.)

28. How Caesar arrived.

29. Falstaff said he was a Windsor one.