" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 176 fA Book Token

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ACROSS

1. "Inspiring, bold - - What dangers thou canst mak us scorn! " (Burns.) (4, so.) to. Hold-ails? No, only a little. 11. Tree for writing, evidently.

is. Where the rule of thumb obtained. 13 Most of us love this island; none has been there.

15. Macheath got one. 17. Renounce.

20. One sort of war.

21. Surprising that in these one should make terms with sin.

21. Beef to be. (4, 4.)

25. Look, an old classic poet!

28. Smell it or smoke it.

29. Not a supporter of the New Order;

or the old.

30. Shoemilers' " Who's Who "? (3, 4, 2, 5.)

DOWN

2. Like things that simply aren't done.

3. Broken crate in nine.

4. " Trent's Last Case,"-but when he studied Latin.

s. They provide a better case than the girls' for make-up.

6. Kipling's were between.

7. Was it in time? Just right!

8. With whom the poet strove.

9. What lawyers mean by " going on circuit "? (5, 4.) 14. A chap devoured,-getting the vote? z6. A risky thing, trying to rear him hand.

IS. As Keats's Isabella might ecclesi- astically have said.

19. A low lot, but no disrespect to North Africa and our airmen. (4, 4.)

22. " Let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, feed on her - cheek." (Shakespeare.)

24. Music in Fifeshire.

26. What not to do, according to the adage, if subject to 20.

27. Part of a better 'ole.