tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 81

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ACROSS . An obstacle to gate-crashers (to).

6. Blackleg (4).

9. " But I being - have only my dreams " (Yeats) (4). to. Aid in shop from the limb- less (9)

13. Where one usually finds the best cut off a chicken (3 words) (2, 3, 4). 14. Daring (5).

15. Sound features (4).

16. There's no opposition here (2 words) (5, 5).

19. Frank is able (to). 21. Cabbage rosette (4).

24. Permission for temporary absence (5)

25. Boreas (2 words) (5, 4).

27. Scent (9).

28. " Bare ruin'd choirs where - the sweet birds sang " (Shakespeare) (4).

29. " How's the sempstress? " " Only -" (4). 3o. It doesn't seem to be the shrub to encourage energetic husbandry (to).

DOWN 2. But the bird doesn't only go to bed (7).

3. Mountain associated with pro- phecy (6).

4. Italian sculptor (5).

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Daughter of Clytemnestra (9). Mortification (7).

With a thousand Bess goes to the dogs (2 words) (6, 6). Blue river (6).

A very costly cable (3 words) (4, 2, 6). Something for the fiddler's bow before following for a horse (9).

A colt's metamorpnosis Finish in a gas '7).

It sounds like an aspirated source of 12 (7).

The Muse of Comedy (s).. Where herrings become kip- pers (5).