THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 610

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ACROSS

1. Examples of piece-work for pleasure. (6, 7.)

8. Sauce-boat of considerali:e dimen- sions. (8.) 9. They flavour affairs by the hundred. (6.)

12. He approaches part of the 'church from the wrong end. (4.) .

13. He's blue at departinre. (5.)

14. " It is a beauteous evening calm and - " (Wordsworth). (4.) 17. Incorrectly let and unmatched in the middle. (6.) 18. The unicorn is, but not the lion. (7.) 20. Dress period to be disposed of. (7.) 22. Carriage sometimes available for (occ- ulting. (6.) 25. A small 'limn wi:1 aPrkar if in- correctly done. (4.) 26. Haunted by woman wailing for her - lover " (Coleridge). (5.) 27. One might almost give this waste- place the go-bv. (4.)

30. A medium type of fellow. (6.) 31. Motion:ess. (S.) '

32. Portrait of a theatrical boy joinea up in the middle and quite foolish, (8, 5.)

DOWN 2. He doesn't, however, compose with a brogue. (7.) 3. Hunting call in Bohemia. (4.) 4. The woman who saves the dripping. (6.) 5. Cetywayo was one. (4.) 6. None rise about a Roman. (7.)

7. Obvious go-betweens. (6, 6.) 10. They display a lack of s.ac ng graces. (12.)

11. Small change for 13. (5.) 15. "Leave to Robert Browning Beggars, - and vines " (Kingsley). (S.) 16. He takes part in a drama rather reluctantly. (5.) 19. Great fun to get a lift up. 0.)

21. Part of the badge of a Kipling regiment. (3, 4.),

23. Reptilian fruit. (7.)

24. It's got mixed. (6.)

28. Name, for example, indefinite article. (4.)

29. Only half as venerable as the man a-sitting on a gate. (4.)