THE " SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 640
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that day and must bear the NUMBER of the puzzle and a stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A.. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]
ACROSS
4. It's a cream mixture. (9.) 9. We turn to the ringlet for a bird. (6.) 11. Alternative version of a Conrad title. (6, 5.) 12. Two sailors unwisely .aught. (6.) 13. Gladstone in slumber ? (8, 3.) 14. Author first under the hammer. (4.) 17. Hugh the parson. (5.) 18. Has an altered appearance round the underground worker. (9.) 21. Irritating trifles stated as fact. (9.) 23. It is part of the cobra I destroyed. (5.) 27. Fight to hold the sail. (4.) 28. " A mere - is a rugged being " (Johnson). (11.) 31. Not the firxt time. (6.) 32. On which to serve the best cut of chicken, perhaps. (11.) 33. I dream in it. (6.) 34. Experts in folding. (9.)
DOWN
1. Favourite vessel, -perhaps of German sailors. (7.)
2. A sailor from 12 turns up with the professional. (3. 4.) 3. He makes a sad, turn in the middle for example. (5.) 5.- Without it one gets nowhere in the course of correspondence. (7.7 6. Study companies ? The bishop does. (S.) 7. Upkeep is not their strong point. (10.) 8. The thunder girl, it seems. (5.) 10. Too much with us, said Wordsworth. (5.) 15. No batsman should regard it as the shape of hings to come. (4.) 16. Vain detal (anag.). (10.) 19. " Hollow, pampered jades of - (Shakespeare). (4.) 20. It's a duet (anag.). (8.) 22. For the personal use of such as favour a muffled drum. (3. 4.) 24. No chap I make silent. (7.) 25. Just the thing for really good digs. (7.) 26. A past rearrangement. (5.) 29. " Wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the - ? " (Macaulay). (5.) 30. Canning's knife-grinder was. (5.)
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