THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD NO. 666
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Across
1. The author must have known how to spell " cold." (6.) 4. Source of aeronautical news ? (3, 5.) 10. The historian, it seems, does not express himself to us. (7.)
11. Poets' pub. (7.) 12. Poetic rendering of mature charity. (6. 4.) 13. What Longfellow's maiden said. (4.) 15. Sailor with a mark to keep off. (7.) 17. Weller has a tune. (7.) 19. The saint goes mounted yet walks. (7.) 21. It sounds like a great opening in the German industrial field. (7.) 23. Undress colour. (4.) 24. Least in litter. (7, 3.)
27. A monarch with a rec,prd. 3.)
28. Macaulay said Steele was one among rakes. (7.) 29. Deere gets red and confused. (3, 5.) 30. People get landed with it. (6.)
Down
1. Food for those who don't dry them- selves sufficiently ? (4, 5.) 2. Dogs that set the guns ? (7.) 3. Pence where one looks for peace sub- sequently. (10.) 5, Light mail, possibly, but not shining armour. (4, 5.) 6. "Dreamed of tasting - tomorrow." (Praed.) (4.) 7. Saints of a sort. (7.) •
s. David's complexion (5.)
9. Employer for sure. (4.) 14. A man's hurt a plant. (10.) 16. Complaint of the author of " Home.
Sweet Home." (9.) 18. A glum family affair it might be.
(5, 4.) 20. Splendid in colour and by no means vulgar. (7.) 22. All up next morning. (7.) 23. Street of detection. (5.) 25. Stevenson had a great one of happi- ness. (4.) 26. Glucose but no lettuce. (4.)
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