"The Spectator" Crossword No. 223

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ACROSS 2. It must take phenomenal strength to be such thieves!

9. With the variable weather, it is hard to get this way in England.

14. " By heaven, I'll make a . . . of him that lets me."

15. It's a ban (anag.).

18. rev. You might explode if you drank this kind of powder.

19. Both to procure and to re- linquish.

21. Be agreeable by putting 17 Plural in this.

22. A grief ltable place to bury

24. Large-paper.

25. Therefore my . . . is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly."

26. The beloved of a Cornish prince.

28. My first is unchecked in 10, my second in 2 across.

29. Books about a piece of pro- fanity are useful to sailors. 31. rev. A good giant prince.

33. Federal soldiers.

34. Part of a wine-glass you make headway against ?

DOWN 1. Explosive reading material?

2. Hollygrowing about the precipitous craggy part of a mountain-side.

3. rev. European capital. 4. Neither a useful implement or a polite thing to do at table 1 5. My first is unchecked in 1, my second in 33.

6. This kind of a mouse is a bird.

7. rev. The zealous have this.

8. rev. A man who wants to pay out money for any girl that is about does this 1 .

10. The Utopia of cooks ?

11. A grim ear (anag.).

12. rev. A follower of " The Angelical Doctor." 13. rev. Malevolent water-spirit.

16. Water that barks I 17. rev. What the lowing herd winds slowly o'er.

20. Nothing would debase these reception-rooms in America.

23. An island of the Philippines. 27. Be silly.

30. rev. "I cannot . butlittle meat, My stomach is not good." 32. 21.