27 MARCH 1936, Page 40

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 183

By ZENO

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ACROSS

2. Indifferent person borrowed from Italy.

9. Return to good sense. 14. Give this a handle then look out!

15. Pope and Swift were frequent visitors at this park In the Cotswolds. IS. rev. I study a statue.

20. Goes furtively.

23. Can I sleep In bed at night if disturbed ?

26. rev. Sociable insect ?

27. This is all right in America.

25. " So might I, standing on this pleasant . . . Have glimpses."

29. Pertaining to vinegar.

30. Railways certainly keep unstable animals, by the look of this I 34. Ilardolph always wore his-but not in his buttonhole!

35. "Dreams are each a world ; and ... , we know,

Arc a substantial world, both pure and good."

DOWN

1. This person has little cause to blow his coloured wind instrument I

2. Person always in line feather!

3. Shakespeare URFA this character to satirize euphuism.

4. A sour colour Y 6. lier wits were " as mortal as an old man's life."

6. When this is abed it's reviled.

7. A sect.

8. rev. " How doth the little busy ... Improve each shining hour."

10. What is demonstrative abou 4 ?

11. ' A youth of labour with an age of . . . l" 12. rev. In 1.

13. This kind of a spring is like a letter of the alphabet.

10. rev. Playwrights cannot avoid a dis- play of temper when they snake this.

17. A living picture ?

19, rev. Umbelliferous plant.

20. Theatrical - even if unconnected with the theatre.

21. You will be able to finish the article -if you have the knack of it. 22. Carries off contents of bags ?

24. If it gets in after, it will be quite exhausted.

25. Be spoilt by wet.

31. There's nothing to it.

32. Makes a gal lawful. 83. rev. Part of a guinea.