"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 501
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ACROSS
1. Canis. (3, 5.) 5. Sailor despatched when he wasn't there. (6.) 9. Solomon would hardly have written on this. (8.) 10. A gastric sort of summary. (6.) 12. Last lines composed for those who use 1 ac., perhaps. (9.) 13. A stick that may have originally been cane. (5.) 14. Drinking companion for Jumbo. (6.) 17. Nothing secret about this. (5.) 20. Embodied in the master who took us in geography. (5.) 21. Bivalve, not biceps. (6.) 24. "Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous -" (Watson). (5.) 25. A nice turn (snag.). (9.) 28. The sailorman looks surprised. (6.) 29. He's following the port's turn. (8.) 30. Starry conjunctions. (6.)
31. Not what One pays for theatre Seats. (8.)
DOWN
1. Material for a change. (6.) 2. The passer-by used to be asked to remember it on August 5th. (6.) 3. It was said of him that he had been round the world but never in it. (5.) 4. Cross that is about a rodent. (5.) 5. Nostrum at Dotheboys Hall. (9.) 7. The slack are urged to bend them. (IL) 8. The Caroline ruffian owed something to Virgil. (8.) 11. Whose house fell ? (6.) 15. Should such a person see a hundred times more than 28 ? (5, 4.) 16. It stands for sound quality. (6.) 18. Ingredients of grey soup. (8.) 19. Spaces like 28. (4, 4.) 22. The queen who disobeyed. (6.) 23. Mr. Weller said he had been called it, changing the initial. (6.) 26. Birth place. (5.) 27. Tower of escape. (5.)
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