at THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 469 [A Book Token for
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ACROSS
1. Man of letters who sometimes has a special distinction. (13.) 9. He had a career in fiction, but did not make it for himself. (9.) 10. It was done abroad before broad- casting. (5.) 11. " Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou makest thy keen " (Shakespeare). (5.) 12. Serb guess (anag.). (9.) 13. Need. (7.) 15. Surrendered. (7.) 17. Such land is not likely to have 15. (7.) 19. Helmet made of a bat without a middle. (7.) 21. Only fit if capped ? (9.) 23. The kind of cousin useful nowadays. (5.) 24. No co-operation is complete without it. (5.) 25. Ridden by poets who write long poems ? (9.) 26. One could make it arise in an open space. (13.)
DOWN
2. I do squeal for her. (9.) 3. A trim affair. (5.) 4. Slaughter-house walk ? (7.) 5. Pry, hero, into this. (7.) 6. A sound place in which to incarcerate female prisoners ? (9.) 7. They'll never go in head first. (5.) 8. " Deep - in books and shallow in himself " (Milton). (6.) 9.
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22 23. The plus one tradesman. (5.)
Spoil maid (anag.). (9.) Hawthorne's marble faun. (9.) " She had a tongue with a tang, would cry to a - Go hang I " (Shakespeare). (6.)
They stand for something. (7.) An ecclesiastical type. (7.) " When that which drew from out the boundless deep - again home " (Tennyson). (5.) A poem turns up with credit. (5.) Call to physical training, but surely not here ! (5.)
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