"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 238

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ACROSS

I. Evidently the procession of spinsters doesn't require much paper. (S, 4.)

6. What weather, for a change!

9. Hostilities apparently between a Chinese dynasty and a rustic god.

to. Emp:oyed.

12. He was a bridge expert.

t3. Broken earthenware, and what it provoked.

tiS. He takes the biscuit.

19. Edwin.

so. "A lodge in some vast wilderness."

21. Carlyle's snobs.

Zr. How one faces the dentist.

23. It sounds a lethal vehicle.

28. Cowper had one.

29. Hawthorne Mies.

30. Length of a cart going back.

31. They often find expression in toast.

DOWN

5. Porcine contribution to harvest.

2. A scene of mutiny.

3. It flows through St. Maki I remember. 4."That's me! . : . an old man, my

lord, a very old, old man! " (Dickens.) 5. Used in one of Kingsley's books?

7. Irish tonic, well shaken up.

8. "The best days of all," according to the old rhyme. rt. An old transatlantic colony.

14 Not any girl makes up like this.

15. Lawrence character liable to prose- cution.

17. Vehicular kisses.

18. Comment on the tardy delivery of the joint.

24. Men in a boat, but not Jerome's.

"Whither is fled the visionary —? " (Wordsworth.)

26. Favour.

27. Nearly all wides.