" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 38

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ACROSS As the disc is beaten (9). Loud hemp (5).

There is a bottle so labelled in Browning (5).

Can I shove fish? (9).

A fieldsman not quite sure of himself? (9).

"Invest me in my motley give me - to speak my mind" (5).

It hurts when father's at home (4).

An attractive affair which sounds like taking on a cargo of building material (9).

The score is increased by a single (9).

It is the end of many a

malady (4). "Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, - (5). The unknown spoke up for himself (9). They make one a purse (9). The match girl (5). An unlucky bath chap (5). Few who liked jousting would do these records (2 words) (4, 5).

DOWN " Skim milk masquerades as " (5). Salt water was simply the making of her (9). The insect has a suggestion of repose at heart (6). "Pious fraud! to lead the hot - pursuing far astray " (7). 5. Brutus, apparently, knelt in his stockinged feet (8).

6. Can it avail to conceal her?

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7. These are not used to measure talk (9).

so. it is found in December reversed (5).

13. The crossword bird con- fused with the spirit of the age (9).

5. Bring out of Browning (3).

16. Timothy is among the broken pots (9).

17. The hungry billiard-player's favourite shot? (8).

19. Age rising to order (5).

20. Boxes (7).

22. It's astonishing, but not quite enough for the poet (6).

24. The Irish poet involved in the three R's (5).

26. It adds a letter to the back- yard (5).