SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 835

ACROSS I A short note to the railway (6).

4 Set forth for old-fashioned prison (8). 8 Sam Lover (anag.) (8).

10 'I'd - resign to call thee mine' (Old Song) (6).

12 Mother and child, stony (5).

13 Up among the swinish it's very prickly (9).

14 Legislator drowned in ale and plenty of it! (5).

16 Up there's a river (9).

17 Kestrel (9).

19 Surely a hundred to the inch? (5).

21 Ring up the curtain on them (9).

22 Fortunate literary chap (5).

24 The fish has no part in this (6).

25 'Methought I saw my late - Saint' (Milton) (8).

26 Will the poet never grow up? (8).

27 Ship from Ragusa (6). DOWN 1 Spoil Miss Woodhouse when she's at the seaside (7).

2 Silent afterthought calls for the doctor (5).

3 Concerning ek meeting-place for the Chancellor? (7).

5 Pros5cutor north of the Tweed seems relentless (7).

6 What, no MS (9).

7 Gets rid 01 the activities of John Well- ington Wells? (7).

9 Hypocritical speciality of the beauty parlour? (3-7).

11 Black or white, possibly, in the Estate Market? ( 10).

15 Gyre's in a panic, in a panic (9).

17 It is with upraised paw the deer appeal

here (7).

,18 Is this what is poured on the troubled

waves? (4-3).

19 What freedom can do to Ur (7).

20 'Get you home: Is this a -' (Shake- speare) (7).

23 Got us mixed? (5).

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