" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 526
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ACROSS
1. Scrapping the suggestion that the shirt sleeves are rather too long. (10.) 9. Where I return Labour, but might become a Liberal. (4.) 10. Confounded finisher following punc- tuation. (10.) 11. She knew all the answers. (6.) 13. ". . . who rack their brains for -, not for fame " (Byron). (5.) 14. Poet unloved. (4.) 16. Though no biographer he is famous Pig his lives. (3, 3.) 19. Does it ruin the other stocking ? (9, 6.) 20. The solution may dawn on you, so to speak. (6.) 23. This cricketer doesn't wear this garment. (4.) 24. Speak, hands, for me I " he said.
25. Chez Ulysses. (6.) 27. In which the end of 10 might become unshod. (10.) 28. It contributes to internecine strife. (4.) 29. One expects them to talk shop. (10.)
DOWN
2. Tonic metal. (4) 3. Characteristic sound of the wood- wind ? (6.) 4. Wet dug-outs. (6.) 5. Do they give a finishing touch to one's knowledge of two languages ? (6, 9.) 6. " The people in the - cry Romeo, some Juliet, and some Paris " (Shakespeare). (6.) 7. Limit a card (anag.). (10.) 8. This man disguises himself at the end of a rope. (11.) 12. Old swarthy. (11.) 15. " Thine eyes, where all those pleasures live that art would -" (Shakespeare). (10.) 17. Spoken. (4.) 18. Match-makers. (4.) 21. Nova Scotia. (6.) 22. Hiding places, largely of pain. (6.) 23. Murat's river. (6.) 26. " In maiden meditation fancy free." (4.)
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