"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD SECOND SERIES-No. 8

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ACROSS r. Cotter's night (8).

8. Perpetually demonstrated in Piccadilly Circus (7).

9, to. Outstanding wartime portrait of a woman of title (17) (3 words).

Open the page (4).

22. A sailor backward at his maps (5).

14. She seems to invite one to stick it (5).

16. Wife of Posthumus (6).

17. To be found at the peak of literature (7). 20. 28 with neuralgia (7).

22. A beast of dismal progress (6).

23. To be found in fires in most houses (5).

25. His writing was simply fabulous (5).

26. aBnr ic de g re a t ho of r S(ize.-or import- 27. More welcome to a team than a crew (7).

29. Koala (to) (2 words).

30. Yah! Rats! Put them to- gether (7).

31. Trouble for nothing? (8).

DOWN t. Oils rising round • a broken gear (8).

2. People are more prone to use them apart than to- gether (to).

3. Welshman down, wise man up (4).

4. A painful malady extends the best (6). 5. Supplicates with the sound of adulation (5).

6. He sounds a tearful moun- taineer (7).

7. The porpentine was such a creature (7).

8. There must be marriages at this Oxford church, though it seems to be almost entirely engagements (7).

13. Browning's morning time (6).

14. A sign of Grace (5).

15. Hot stuff taken cold (to) (2 words).

18. Generally desired though the indefinite occasion often of untoward events (.7) (2 words).

19. Equine measure of urban inferiority (8) (2 words).

20. Piratical indication of orni- thological point (7). 21. How can we rest in peace on broken toes? (7).

24. Not exactly a bare back rider, or was she? (6).

25. Either way the girl reaches a thousand (5).

28. 20 ac. with neuralgia (4).