tt THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 212

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ACROSS

t. Equipment of a Red Army sledge? (7, 7.) 9. Heavy work for the flower fold?

11. Naturally offensive measures precede

the taking of it.

12. Performed by Cowper.

13. Smetana's if bartered.

14. " Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women, Either past or not arrived to - and puissance." (Shakespeare.) 17. Fist say, might go here.

Social embankment.

19. " Loud 'brume, neighing steeds, and trumpets'. -." (Shakespeare.) 21. Not given by the most open-banded.

23. A duchess of literature.

24. Wordsworth's standard of loneliness.

25. But a prohibition.

28. Australian cricketer with a man gone to point.

29. Dedicates.

3o. Securing four-seventh of 29.

DOWN

2. Secrets well disguised but burning.

3. A bird in the corner.

4. " Come, now a - and a fairy song." (Shakespeare.) 5. With which to write a slang tide.

6. Study.

to un-

7. Plant opened for the pug,.hase of sheen? (9, 5.)

8. Salt blue trifle. (8, 6.) to. It occurs in the yearly reckoning.

is. Try writing! t6. Herb bennet.

19. To a all it might come.

20. A very famous star-gazer. 21. Once the environment of Mr. Pick- wick.

22. Encourage.

26. Swift river.

27. For this and itself is always.