" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 360

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ACROSS

x. Sour tale occupying many leaves. (8.) 5. Officers, combatant and non-comba- tant. (6.) 9. A shady affair in the heavens, per- haps. (8.) so. Mr. Strange goes 12. In which I lost a probably. (9.) t3. " She in thee Calls back the lovely -of her prime." (Shakespeare.) (55 14. It is most refreshing when associated with an elephant. (6.)

17. A flowing detective. (5.) 20. A cone may be the clue to this. (5.)

21. "Frank, haughty, rash,--the - of debate." (Lytton.) (6.) 24. Stanley's initials are divided. (5.) 25. H. and C. (9.)

28. They are of no credit to one. (6.) 29. Not theace tO look for any port

r in a 20. 4, 4.)

3o. Gambling hens. (6.)

31. Edith goes to sea in France, becom- ing literary. (S.)

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s. Say it again! (6.)

2. Barrie wrote when a man was. (6.)

3. It's too far beyond this. (5.)

4. Body out of bed. (5.)

6. He may have been restored and made the subject of a frame-up. (3, 6.)

out. (3, 3.) bon,-a bath bun,

7. " -, images, and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed." (Wordsworth.) (8.) 8. 2 T's. (8.)

xi. Change, please' (6.)

55. She has her ties. (4, S.) 16. It is far from a good turn. (6.)

58. Shop deal. (Anag.) (8.) 59. Most unpleasantly. (8.)

22. A celestial pair. (6.)

23. Chants make a bit of song. (6.)

26. Crowned in literature when wild. (5.)

27. Mrs. Soames Forayte, the first. (5.)