"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 48

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ACROSS

I. It's purely a matter of taste whether one uses them or not (to).

6. There9saintXr one, but not a major

to and ii. Though not an aspirant for the priesthood he may be said to have a cut at the living (4).

12. "There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the -" (6). 13. Such food doesn't call for ac. or might not have been if i ac. had been used (7).

15. Inundated (7).

17. On trays? They frequently are (7).

18. The nude is confused and colours (7).

21. A founder of modern geo- graphy (7). 23. It drives home the point (7). 24. It's so attractive! (6).

27. Sea-going canoe, as it were (5).

28. "When we fall out with those we love And - said (w4)i.th tears! " (2 words) (4, 5).

29. Mediocre, as the dressmaker 30. Prior (to). DOWN running into

I .thA chap e (ceth).

2. " - the time and the place and the loved one all together" (5). 3. Stained as deputy (7).

4. Let off (7).

5. "The passing sigh" (7).

7. Without shirt or hands? (9)

8. A Birmingham suburb I dis. carded, hence the surprise (to).

9. Little company with a littk gentleman (6). 14. One may find no faces fl for these (io).

16. The senior staff at Printing House Square? (2 worth) (3, 6). 19. A Swiss family that failed', take on (6).

20. The buck's in-laws? (7) Zr. A humiliated sort of eon (7). 22. It doesn't suggest anythial so flighty as baggage (7)-

25. Expunge (5). 26. It follows a French one (41 - of I