SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 596

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ACROSS

1. The purpose of a bull in a gramo- phone shop ? (6, 8.)

8. Father meets a headmaster of Eton and Westminster in some confusion. (7.)

10. "Who are the - now, That strew the green lap of the new come spring ? " (Shakespeare). (7.) 11. Little drinks demonstrating either way the bowler's trickiness. (4.)

12. Evidently it's not likely to produce effervescent wine. (5.) 13. Food for nautical progress. (4.) 17. It arises from the confusion of Mr. Barnes's team. (13.)

19. Seats for the band ? (7, 6.) 22. Marshal Rose. (4.) 23. " Sir -, of amber snuff-box justly vain " (Pope). (5.) 25. Juno. (4.) 28. A welcome thing disposed of in the middle for harness. (7.) 29. It sounds like the abode of humilia- tion. (7.)

30. Everybody at home, it seems, having a rough and tunable. (3, 2, 9.)

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2. " Tye shadow of his loss drew like -, darkening the world " (Tenny- son. (7.)

3. They have their ends. (4.)

4. Fun and games provighig uplift in reverse. (5.)

3. A most incomplete- character. (4.) 6. Repeat. (7.) 7. " All is - and gaiters " (Dickens) (3.) The rustic god seems to have

changed his nationality. (9.) 9. A taller mixture. (7.) 14. The bird might provide a name for Hereward's cat. (9.) 15. So taken suggests 17, but not in an evening gown. (5.)

16. All- should give the Christmas pud- ding it. (5.)

18. " Now the Irish are - to see themselves in one year tamed " (Marvell). (7.) 20. No ordinary copper. (7.) 21. Himself the 7 to accelerate. (7.) 24. Kipling's lady. (5.) 26. " She stood in tears amid the alien " (Keats). (4.) 27. The fruit turns up for him. (4.) 28. Feathered Snake. (3.)