" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 147

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ACROSS

I. They had no significance in Shakespeare (3 words) (5, 3,

4). 9. Is this the hairdressers' trade journal? (9).

It). The little chap makes men

go (5).

It. Method in auctioneering (2 words) (2, 4).

12. They apply the closure in the retail trade (8). 13. Blower of a wreathed hoth (6). 15. The author of " The Way of an Eagle " returns a gnu (8). 18. This is no good for uphill work (8). 19. Keble Howard's Surbitonians (6).

21. Two characters from Aesop

(8). 23. He may be found in credit or debit (6).

26. Pipe nautically associated with an island (5).

27. Stroke which suggests the worship of the golden calf perhaps (2 words) (3, 6). 28. How our correspondence is handled nowadays? (12).

DOWN

I. This is not quite the same as a butt of sack (7). 2, 14. I bat, I yell, I run, dis- closing this characteristic (13).

3. Casar displayed this but Pompey didn't (9). 4. A pane in the neck (4). SOLUTION ON Penny short of a bicycle (8). Anyway, he should have been a man of his word (5). A poet's damozel (7). The outside at any rate seems to have got a tenant (7).

See 2.

" I've never seen a jaguar, Nor yet an -" (Kipling) (9). His overheads were certainly in a most precarious state (8). " Cats may have had their goose Cooked by - juice " (Calverley) (7).

Substance of a Gilbert opera (7). Fencing lough? (5). Folded by Arabs (5). He had something in common with Piers (4).

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