THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 219

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ACROSS

,. Indispensable to those who go to the dogs. (4, 3, 6.)

S. " To watch the emerald-coloured water falling Thro' many a woven — wreath divine." (Tennyson.) 9. The sailor obtains what is intended for tonight.

to. This French place simply makes me cross.

My one ray turns into this.

12. " She who must be obeyed."

14. " Today he puts forth The temler leaves of hope; tomorrow —." (Shakespeare.)

16. Gets forward with financial aid. 8. Longs.

zo. Brutus didn't necessarily behave this

23. Hamlet's father's orchard hour.

24. Sheridan wrote her.

25. Helen's hair, according to Poe.

26. How Goliath junior referred to Pa? (5, 4, 4.)

DOWN

t. Treated like a coach?

2. Brooks.

3. " My heart — and a drowsy numbness pains my sense." (Keats.) 4. Meredith's answer.

5. One thing a heretic is not guilty of.

6. They seem to have been great churchmen. like His 7. 'This side for men.

13. Canary ill? It's merely a sub- ordinate matter.

14. At length it would be for all.

15. Minorities are mostly friars. 17. Harmonised. 19. Record of a curve before bees.

21. " On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect —." (Browning.) 22. Swift, unpleasant beast.

23. It ain't is, but it is ain't.