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ACROSS

1. Gatecrashers' paradise ? (7, 4.)

7. This bird is frequently late; don't take it for a model. (3.) 9. Well covered for voting. (5.) 10. The classical come-back. (9.) 11. When to mend and make do ? (3, 4.) 12. The fox. (7.) 15. Smoke. (4.) 16. Shoal of spongy objects. (7.) 18. These chargek at last show altera- tion. (7.)

n. Where the Occident begins? (4, 3.) 23. It has the flavour of a phobia of rodents. (7.)

25. Procure a supply of eastern clogs. 26. The batsman who won the tricks ?

29. Ca. (4, 3.) 30. A batty sort of time. (9.) 31. Jungle money. (5.) .

33. Boating without Crosby. (3.) 34. The pedlar of dreams should . practised in this. (11.)

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1. Impudence; some can stick it. (3.) 2. Golden bus (snag.). (9.) 3. The same again. (7.) 4. But Lancastrians bowl them too.

5. Demand of the Cockney footpad, and where. (7.) 6. Upon which it depends as to whether life is worth living. (5.) 7. It goes to the making of a golden voice. (5.) be 8, 32. Is aunt's mixture at the works ? 11. All don't earn in this direction.

13. He goes tubbing, so to speak. (5.) 14. It gives 21 a turn. (3.) 17. So much turns on it. (5.) 19. Longfellow thought it never wasted.

21. He provides a word for 14. (3.) 22. Flatten the hills ? (7.) 23. Rose-growers' favourite periodical reading ? (7.) 24. Chinese Puzzle. (7.) 27. Stones may be, friends should be. (5.) 28. Pipeline under the ocean. (5.) 32. See 8.