" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 33 [A prize of a

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ACROSS r. He makes the Goth appear a very small person (9). 6. Free hose of defeat (5).

9. It often goes with error (5). to. "Lest the hunt be drawing near, or a corner-by be seen swinging in a (9).

ix. Last shake from solvents (9).

12. They bring scratch (5).

13. Peak (5). 15. The first part of x across goes to roost, but it's broken (9).

18. In a brookish manner (9).

19. It's something material when the doctor gets unfit (5).

20. Cut a figure (5). 22. Shakespearean officer of the guard (9). 25. Increased if lied about after a politician (9). 26. Viola's voice is deepened thereby (5). these old one up to 27. What people who can't stand asking should do (5).

28. The business end or the weapon (9).

DOWN 1. All in i across and nearly all in 15 (5).

2. Dullard found on beer,-or the result of too much of it (9).

3. Hichens's garden was his (5).

4. Kipling so labelled triumph and disaster (9)- 5. By no means one of the Islands of the Blest (5).

6. But even the most self- controlled may get a tem- perature (9). 7. In the Old Testament one occurs of which the con- tents were 18, 25 (5).

8. She's clean changed into a steward (9).

13. The man many motorists would like to meet (9).

14. It's an obsolete punish- ment to walk over the economist (9). 16. Scene of an historic dis- aster (2 words) (3, 6).

17. Sacred banner of St. Denis (9). 21. Composer a little short of a meal (5). 22. Writing about lubricant (5).

23. Keen (5). 24. "Reeking tube and iron " (5).