THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 684
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Across
1. Part returns to South Africa with an official. (6.) 4. Suitably found in the hands of a stonewaller. (8.) 10. Graduates shortly for an instrument. (7.) 11. " What - to grow ripe is ours ? " (Arnold.) (7.) 12, Frozen mire. (4.) 13. Draws back to the place for putting. (10.) 16. _A towering rook. (6.) 17. They turn their backs on their com- panions and set the pace. (7.) 20. Verne at the end of his career. (7.) 21. "Solid pudding against empty -." (Pope.) (6.) • 24. Ban is not so mixed for tea-party people. (10.) 25. Gold in Pornic. (4.) 27. The barren palm. (7.) 29. Smith's calling in the cavalry. (7.) 30. One of those fruits associated with apricots. (8.) 31. It seems the opposite of a breakdown on the parade-ground. (4, 2.)
Down
1. Take it away ! (8.) 2. Smart skates. (Anag.) (11.) 3. Fluid aspect of a German prefix. (4.) 5. " Thomas. here's • my best - to you." (Kipling.) (8.)
6. Looking-glass landscape fashioned for a game. (5. 5.) 7. A trifle in a mouth. (3 ) 8. I enter trade and overdo the invective. (6.) Modern submarines do. (5.)
14. I came in arms. (Anag.) (11.) 15. The pest may be full of poison. (10.) 18. Indian sergeant. (8.) 19. Upset the vessel. Inside are an ear and a doctor. (8.) 22. Teem. (6.) 23. " Reading, writing and 'Mimetic. tobackcr and sleep." (Dickens.) (5.)
26. Arnold short of pounds and pence. (4 ) 28. The bird turns over a packet. (3.)
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