THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 553
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ACROSS
I. Defensive purpose of a hairpin. (8.) 5. Everybody in the Underground. (6.) 9. Ilan of poetry. (8.) 10. This, paradoxically, makes ■ gin-sot. (6.) 11. Going a little further the queen reaches a scene of mutiny. (8.) 12. Just the figure to yield me cash. (6.) H. The archdeacon's somewhat diawn out after opposition. (10.) 18. Don't they read " The Raven " really thoroughly ? (10.) 22. What comes next in ? The wolf backwards. (6.)
23. Exercise for a ratty tailor. (8.)
24. She may be orderly but her syntax is poor. (6.) 25. Paul's car (snag.). (8.) 26. Sound of stealing cattle. (6.) 27. Proper lively condition of • flask. (8.)
DOWN
1, A trifle In need of alteration at the water-works. (6.) 2. Engine found in the garden. (Al 3. Embodied in what cures entirely. (6.) 4. Had he lived up to his name he might have escaped shipwreck. (10.) 6. A cart out of mint. (8.) 7. Nothing turns to hidden greed. (8.) S. Or he-cats they might be. (8.) 3. Just too long, this refreshment, to employ a teaspoon. (7, 3.) 5. Renderer of first-aid in a fracture it might have caused. (8.) 16. Left sale (msg.). (8.) 17. Animal confusion about an alterna- tive. (8.) 19. A good shot at refastening when turned over. (6.) 20. One must work to get most of this soap. (6.) 21. A change of trades. (6.)
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