si THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 137 1 ,4 prize of a

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ACROSS . This couldn't have been one of the ships that pass in the night! (2 words) (5, 3).

5. "Our - sniff the evening and are glad " (Flecker) (6). 9. Get together (8).

io. Explosive literature (6). 12. Miss Waters (6).

t3. Prohibition before it and one after (8).

15. Has no mittens (anag.) (12).

18. Shakespeare, by implication, seems to have thought he directed the world (2 words) (5, 7).

23. Priestley grove (8).

24. This stone is half wood (6).

26. The Napoleonic cipher? (6).

27. To steal politely (8).

28. " If a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine " (Byron) (6).

29. At seven, said Browning (8).

DOWN I. Several but not enough for a book (6).

2. Forenoon trifles (6).

3. You provide the solution (7).

4. " I said to the -, ' The brief night goes In babble and revel and wine " (Tenny- son) (4).

6. Leave in half 24 (7). 7. Bad you chaps, in archaic lan- guage (2 words) (4, 4).

8. Shockers are full of them (8). ur. Does he march to the Wash- ington Post?

14. Bitter sweet (7). 16. Musical preservers? (8).

17. He came- between one Cyrus and another (8). 19. French convention (2 words) (2, 5).

20. A great ship (7).

21. " This eternal - must not be To ears of flesh and blood " (Shakespeare) (6). 22. Confessions (6).

25. Superfluous literary advice to a dumb cow (4).