The Spectator" Crossword No. 7T BY XAN . ruirrE.

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1. Had a benefit at the Ports- mouth Theatre.

10. Nobody hurt him.

14, 19. Old Nick in Scotland.

15. Often driven off, yet re- mains in position. 7 16. Not the (docked) science of nasty old women. 17. Famous Italian monastsry. 18 rev. 61 feet.

19. See 14.

20. Has received a set-back in America. 21 rev. In Chile without a horse.

25. Island.

26. Written to in Scotland.

27. This carrier begins a scare- crow.

28 rev.. There's an uproar at one end-of the vehicle.

32. Behead a precious stone. 33 rev. Beginning of the longest word in Shakespeare.

34 rev. The B.B.C. has recently told us how to pronounce it. 36, 14, both rev., require.

37. Revival.

38. Motor - car or newspaper initials.

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1. When Hamlet spoke of "some quantity of barren -s," he did not know this one.

2. Not quite swimming, but marking.

3. Uplift that is part of an architect's work.

4. Addressees of famous corre- spondence.

5. There is a brand-new ruler here.

0. A Greek play, leg before.

id has lost a

7 rev. The b final article.

8. Napoleon became this when he won this reversed.

9. Egg Ind. Rad. Not by- election advice, but an anagram.) 11. Modern poet.

12. Mine beyond the Pyrenees.

13. Votes, when mixed, are. 22. Lacking in itself reversed when 35 is added.

23 rev. Endless, but Dickens hero.

24 rev. Fruit.

29. Military initials.

30. More military initials.

31. Break-maker. 35. See 22. papery