tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 289
ACROSS
I. It's all I'm bet (anag.). (I'.)
9. One couldn't after the sparrow's lethal archery. (9.) to. Magnetic statesman. (5.) It. A feature of medieval architecture.
1.5.) U. Expelled. (g.) 13. Broadcast meals? (7.) 15. The Wrens of a mythological age (?).
(7.) 17. The hero of 'fiction who is really a villain. (7.) iv They are disposed to dispose. (7-) 21. An act or two vowels from Swin- burne. (9.) 23. To make a living he gets it. (5.) 2f. Book bound in ciphers. (5.) 26. "White hawthorn and the pastoral ; Fast-fading violets covered or in leaves." (Keats.) (9.) 27. In which one might expect jaundiced opinions. (6, 5.) •
DOWN
1. He is not super.titious, evidently, about liberality. (5.) 2. The sweets of foot-slogging, phoneti- cally. (9.) 3. Bat up and let's follow on. (7.) 4. Fair fight. (7.) 5 It occurs in the first edition I con- dude. (5.)
6 is frequently the gate for the gate. 19)
7. Mr. Harding, the vicar of St. -." (Trollope.) (6.) 8. " of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy." (Wordsworth.) (6.) 14. Surgical instrument calculated to scarify a politician. (9.) x6. Craven eel (anag.). (9.) 17. " • to taste." (6.) 18. Tin, fish. (7.) i9. All in store. (7.) 20. A famous horse if white.
22. Dwarf fish. (5.)
24. Carpenter. (5.) (6.)
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