"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 540

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1. Wins the wan. (12.)

9. A son of arm that takes the arm. (5-) 10. Surprising to find the Congo in it. (9.1 11. Captain Cuttle's speciality, perhaps. (10.)

12. The hone doesn't drink it. (4.) 14. A particle of corn and then one might come 10 Ware. (7.)

16. Limps on to take the pass. (7.) 17. Pig meat all round the pleasure resort. (7.) 19. just the wrong pattetn for Patterne. (7-) 20. An unstable pigeon. (4.)

21. It isn't duet (snag.). (10.)

24. Expunge. (5.)

25. "In - cup times of hood and hoop" (Tennyson). (3.)

26. Birth-place. (S.)

27. The act of getting a footballer signed on for a different club ? (8, 4.)

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2. "She stood in tears amid the - corn" (Keats). (S.) 3. This deadly affair couldn't possibly be • sunshade. (10.) 4. Place built out of 20 cwt. cd material.? (7.) S. There's a book that does readily. (7.) 6. This is indispensable for • surgeon's make-up. (4.) 7. Hardly the majority likely to sup- port an intellectual. (3, 6.) 8. A professional poser. (7, 5.)

9. One in the Garden of Eden might have altered the MUM Of the history of man. (5. 7.)

13. Minute drop (snag.). (10.)

15. Just what Barkis was not. (9.)

18. Time records. (7.) 19. Dais. (7.) 22. "Proud o' the -," as the Living Skellington said yen they showed him (Dickens). (5.) 23. Helen's mother, by Jove ! (4.)