" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 259
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ACROSS t. Found on the freemason's hatstand, perhaps. (12.) 8. Cockney lass encounters Dorcas. (9.)
9. Not enough noise for Barrie. (5.) it. On Wordsworth's visiting-list. (6.) 12. Pearlies. (Anag.) (8.)
14. Un-acoutlike. (to.) 16. For transport in a one-horse town. (4.) 18. This is got in shooting duck irksome though it be. (4.) 19. Used by the Borgias against their more exalted victims? (4, 6.) 21. " Where mortal and - merges And human dies divine." (Watson.) (8.)
22. Where the new star rose. (6.)
25. " And shut the - of mercy on mankind." (Gray.) (5.)
26. Name a French glove. (9.)
27. Here one might be on the scent of the R.A.F. (3, 2. 7.) DOWN
t. A moral twist. (3.)
2. Doubled a bit with a Penny. (8.) 3. Curtailed maps, unfortunately. (4) 4. No, little Tommy, nothing to do with bovine betting. (to.) S. Probably the dog you found was. (6.) 6. The wishes of an Anglo-German dance madly. (9.) 7. Drake, no doubt, tarted like this all the same. (4. 8.) so. Hastwede. (5, 2, 5.) 13. An arrangement of clauses. (to.) 15. A tramp at a fabric display. (9.) 17. He must be very hard pressed who has to keep so many from the door!
(8.) 20. Praised by a Cockney, openly. (6.) 23. This is briefly in a north-easterly direction. (5.) 24. A bit of Shakespeare's bones. (4.)
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