- THE SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 291

BY ZENO

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2. Behind a speed-demon a dry road is shoddy.

1. A footway leads to passion- less existences.

14. Royal letters.

15. See 21.

17. rev. Often mean gold for the dentist.

18. My first is unchecked in 19, my second in I.

19. Proper binding for Essays of Elia.

20. See 34.

21. rev. and 15. Singer that can bark ?

22. Archly.

24. Lo, and it is ardour.

25. See 3.

26. Where intelligence can be posted.

28. " The deep . . . of his taking-off."

3o. My first is unchecked in 2 across, my second in 35.

3r. What makes a fisherman dizzy ?

33. Motorists don't necessarily skid when they get them.

35. Attached to a noun.

36. rev. " I . . . for information."

DOWN 1. Unregarded prophet.

2. A dining motorist in a hurry might come to this !

3. rev. and 25. This man has to come in sight.

on 4. When Keats wrote " 0 Attic shape ! " he didn't mean this 5. When a man becomes K.C. he's suave in this way, I suppose.

6. Room unfit to live in found in many a good home.

7. Consuming.

8. You don't have to be a sailor to sustain this ruin.

9. It's a greed (snag.). ro. rev. A memento causes emaciation.

12. Emblematic.

13. Piece of meat that's rented ?

16. The bride doesn't think they are !

23. rev. " . . . Americans, when they die, go to Paris."

27. Indigo.

29. This ate what is natural.

32. Vowels.

34. and 20. Starch mostly from now.