" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 426 [A Book Token for
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ACROSS
1. Held, no doubt by Palgrave, about the poets whose work he selected. (6, 8.) 9. Attractively depressed. (7.) 10. I can't believe it! (7.) 11. " A boy's will is the - will " (Longfellow). (5.) 12. Beauty preparation usually over- supplied. (9.) 13. Evidence of waistcoating? (7.) 15, 19. A right of presentation. (8.)
20. Is a bung made of it? (7.)
24. Did these troops specialise in sword- play? (9.)
26. " Grace me no grace, nor - me no - ! " (Shakespeare). (5.)
27. She was addressed going to the wars and beyond the seas. (7.) 28. Flowers of thought. (7.) 29. They may win 1 across or diversify one's purchasing power. (8, 6.)
DOWN
I. Store not stable. (6.) 2. Mental disorder. (6.)
3. ere in the end one finds a broken stile. (8.) 4. Heaven's first law, said Pope. (5.)
5. Transgressing hair-dos, it seems. (9.)
6. Hardly suitable connections for Robin Hood. (6.)
7. When even high water is low. (4, 4.) 8. Islander with a sound taste for civil disturbance. (7.)
14. Pioneer among workers in brass and iron. (5, 4.)
16. How, no doubt, letters to Vanessa were written. (7.) 17. An architect seems to have built this celebrated road. (8.) 18. Implication that nine undo, possibly. (8.) 21. " Dear as remembered - after death " (Tennyson). (6.) 22. One of the gifts that Antony said he lacked, on a famous occasion. (6.) 23. They seem to have contributed to the reclamation of a poet's wilderness. (6.) 25. Lapse disguised in blossom. (5.)
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