THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 565
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ACROSS
1. Worth eight in the bush (4, 2, 4.) 6. Longfellow, according to Tennyson, sang to a clear one. (4.) 9. One sort of bookmaker. (10.) 10. Chinese Member of Parliament ? (4.) 12. A touching sort of dance. (5.) 13. The Government of yesterday in France ? (9.)
14. " What cat's averse to - ? "
(Gray). (4.) 16. As you were 1 (6, 3.) 19. Lucky girl, it seems. (9.) 22. Porridge, but just about missing. (4.) 25. If dismembered a cat would remain. (9.) 26. An ornament of golf. (5.) 28. One of the junior Rhodes ? (4.) 29. The stocking shouldn't do the second if you do the first. (10.) ?O. Work of Kipling (and others !). (4.) 31. Seems to have lost by rather less than a head. (10.)
DOWN
I. Artificial support from Shakespeare ? (8.) 2. Prohibition on the ancient city. (5.) 3. Useful, no doubt, in the preparation of cold comfort. (3, 3.) 4. One would expect cutting looks from such a face. (7.) 5. No aroma, says the Scot. (7.) 7. Courting a fight. (9.) 8. Sailor less seriously afflicted than Nelson. (6.) 11. James's Miss Miller. (5.) 15. Is there none in a case of f.o.b.? (4, 5.) 17. Rascal. (5.) 18. Cook's old bicycle. (8.) 20. A good second. so to speak. (7.) 21. Dupe who ripples the water. (4, 3.) 23. Climbed like 14. (6.)
24. Evidently the priest is not an all- round man. (6.) 27. The book-keeper's ale. (5.)
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