" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 536
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ACROSS
1. It just goes to show that being dry makes one vulnerable. (4, 2, 11.)
10. Where there's a will there's a way- of changing it. (7.) 11. " Ain't the owners gay, Cause we took the - sate across the Bay " (Kipling). (7.) 12. Truly this is a test of sobriety. (5.) 13. With • different ending between Fingal and Wills. (9.) 14. Debit me when turning in. (7.) 16. " an thy sandals, 0 thou, most fleet ! " (Swinburne). (4.) 19. His blood has been streaming ever since his death. (4.) 20. What's left. (7.) 23. A tall team. (9.) ' 25. She's changed or am r ? (5.) 26. Let Bill tell what he wrote. (7.)
27. They seem to provide an alternative to young goats. (7.)
28. Dip out of this. but not now. (7, 7.)
DOWN
2. " Over the Mountains of the Moun. down the Valley of the Shadows," according to Poe. (8.) 3. Any modern public-house. (5.) 4. Fowl loser (snag.). (9.) 5. A group formed initially. (5.) 6. The unemployed. (4, 5.) 7. " At -• perjuries they say Jove laughs " (Shakespeare). (6.) 8. Supplicate in a ship. (6.) 9. People n the Middle East take a little science to make them. (7.) 15. But the players are by no means unknown. (9.) 16. Crab alone (snag.). (9.)
17. The little more, and how much (perhaps) it is ! (8.) ts. See Cuba possibly here. (7.)
21. Croatian university. (6.) 22. What's become of Stopes ? (6.) 24. No splicing the mainbrace without this. (5.) 25. Doyle's Clarke. (5.)
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