"The Spectator" Crossword No. 87

By XANTHIPPE.

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1. Decidedly antique; would be modera-ff - doubled its head.

3. See 14.

10 rev. Dickens wrote about this Marshal.

13. An armless man could not behave thus. • 14. A 3 ac. country.

16 rev. Such sheets am in a boat. 18. This altar can paint.

20. Suitable initials for a plumber.

21. What to do with the line.

22. Famous U.S.A. President, familiarly.

23. Curtail what J. W. Wells dealt in. •

24. This interested Carlyle.

27. Sic -. . 28. This kind of burial' inter- - ested Browne. '

29. Not_a member of the Prim- rose League.

32: Obsolescent And far ,from elegant exclamation.

33. Italian port.' 34 rev. Surname of a popular actress.

35. Beginning of a railway.

36. A Dickens Dick. 39: The bulge of a column.

40. Small Socialist Party in a steamship.

DOWN ..- • 1. An admirable.. manservant

2. Another admirable manser- vent. but - you 3. W. S. Gilbert's proposed dentists: 4. Yes in 'one language, if in another.

5. Fiery. • 6 rev. District.

7. Shakespeare character- (The last vowel is a wrong 'un.)

8. A muse minus 150 makes another lady.

9. This to Mary is usual.

10. A saint.

11. Spanish equivalent for itself reversed in French.

12 rev. A famous writer made them pleasant and un- pleasant.

15. Famous comic draughtsman. 17. -The cloths need. mother. 19 rev. Raze rib (arag.).

25. I have left the legal docu- ment.'

26. A Latiour Peer. • 30. Same as 6. 31 rev. Carnet.

37. 4 rev.

38. Six.