" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 384

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ACROSS

1. An African education committee ? (10). 7. Blow the footwear. (4).

9. Morning splits the gun. (6).

10. Spare man. (Anag.). (8). 11. No possibility of a change of shape in this. (9)".

12. Not on the active list, evidently. (5). 14. I enter a vat and extend the order. (7).

16. " Hark, hark, the lark at Heaven's gate sings And - 'gins arise " (Shakespeare). (7).

18. What to do with an avenue. (7).

19. " Is this a dagger which I see before me ?" Only in type. (7).

21. A superfluous wheel. (5).

23. Brooms lit from a volcano. (9).

26. Tennyson made it leap in glory. (8).

27. Dress. (6).

28. Simply water. (4). 29. " Arthur Clennam stood in the street waiting to ask some passer-by what place that was " (Dickens). (10).

DOWN

2. A suggestion of pugilism by corres- pondence. (9).

3. In which to hear " midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity." (5).

4. Bent square. ,(Anag.) (10).

5. Physicist's Anglo-French declaration of parenthood. (6). 6. She would hardly have suffered from stage-fright. (4). 7. Flower for the parting gue t. (9).

8. Elevating bird. (5).

13. Not how the Ephraimites pronounced it. (10).

15. State of Miss Procter's organist. (3, 2, 4).

17. Alan's blue (Anag.). (9).

20. Money talks. (6).

22. Very vexed. (5).

24. She's a gem. (5).

25. Tree in hand. (4).