" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 544

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ACROSS

1. This seems to be the right game for a man of letters. (8, 5.)

8. Showing that absence of conviction may imply vacancy. (4, 4.) 9. Criminal suspension. (4, 2.) 12. Time for exclusive off-side plan.

(4.) 13. Author's house for fish. (5.) 14. "Forlorn ! The - word is like • bell " (Keats). (4.) 17. Intricate legal pattern. (6.) /8. its inhabitants were not all foot- ballers. (7.) 20. A beast in arms. (7.) 22. " The doctor found, when she was shad, her last disorder (Goldsmith). (6.) 25. It took the French out of livery. (4.) 26. A word in leash from the Psalter.

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27. No struggle without this basket. (4.)

30. This, in fact, is 12. (6.) 31. Drops of drink that make spurs (8.) 32. A childish game not likely to attract pugilists. (4, 2, 3, 4.)

DOWN

2. How trying • sour one grows 1 (7.) 3. A Wellsian machine. (4.) 4. " Truth sits upon the lips of dying men," he wrote. (6.) 5. A sign of sorts, though none can make it. (4.) 6. An outsider and shabby. (7.) 7. 1k simply doesn't look where bc's ring. (12.)

Ghost s policy (snag.) (12.)

Words, according to Stevenson, by which man principally lives. (5.) Not one of the Athenians for whom Puck looked in vain. (5.) Flock. (S.) Alias barracouta. (5.) Nation for a decapitated Prime Minister. (7.) A field of activity. (7.) " The last tall son of Lot and Belli- cent." (6.) She's a bird. (4.) Musical calumny. (4.)

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