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ACROSS

1. An inviting tonic. (4, 2> a.)

5. A graceful girl.

9. " A cuff neglectful, and thereby to. flow confusedly." (Herrick.) a. Wordsworth invited him not to scorn . the sonnet

2. Examples of domestic perfection. 3. Constrain.

" She was a vixen when she went to

school," said her girl friend.

7. " When I shall voice - how good

he is. How great should be." (Lovelace.) Ward off a green.

1. Row that isn't really like this.

" -! the fancy cannot cheat so 1 well As she is famed to do."

(Keats.) 5. A tin medal, plated?

P . In-the manner of Robert E.

Whimsical.

What the fisherman should do when he sees a mermaid?

Find about to be on the card-table.

I I get into the gathering on equal term,. a. " I shalt desire you of more ac- quaintance, good Master -." (Shakespeare.)

Defences seen in sunlight This hand isn't right and should be left.

Seed in 8? DOWN 7. Against the telephone, almost. 8. Sign particularly interesting to a

ii.knight. " The is a willow grows - a brook." (Shakespeare.)

15. It makes a tureen go. 16. Shrub sacred to Venus.

18. At the sound of the drum the rodent•has a programme.

19. I keep the hen swan from the tent.

22. Materials.

23. That's too bad! 26. I'm rising at both ends of it. 27. In this case the mother isn't so good as the daughter.