" The Spectator " Crossword No. 69 By XANTHIPPE.

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ACROSS 1. Archibald Grosvenor be- came this kind of young man.

12. Plural of a word appearing elsewhere in this puzzle.

14. One held office in 31r. Knox's country.

15. Roman road.

17, 33. Our present rulers abbreviated.

18. Little, but a pert addition would make it an author.

19. The Cambridge man has lost an article.

20 rev. Behead M. Hanaud's country.

21. The beginning of rowing men in Rome.

22. Mr. Harvey would make this mercifully disposed.

23. Du this was confused with Lesurques.

24. Tabula -.

25 rev. Two-thirds of famous literary initials. 26. A backward sheep would make this an apparently warlike poet.

28. Mangled fish.

29. Psmith was employed at the New this Bank.

32. City of motor cars twieo beheaded.

33. See 17.

34 rev. Annul.

35. See 36.

36, 35. Two-thirds of a recent Home Secretary. 37. Charitable, with a vowel misplaced. DOWN

1. I come between a vehicle and a mixed wind.

2. British river.

3. Sounds as though I poss. eased a portable shelter.

4. I tote, Ivan (snag.).

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6. One of the nine.

7 rev. The beginning of law.

lateness.

rev. Mr. Parham's was nob

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9. Word used once in these clues. (Here and in 10 the final letter is reduplicated.) 10. Creator of M. Hanaud4 (See 9.) 11. Far from clumsily. 13. Ice, miss (snag.). 16. Shelter across the Channel has turned up.

27. A broken idol.

28. The Monster's telegraphic) address ?

30. His appearance in winter days is himself plus an aced 31. This boy is a girl.