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ACROSS

1. Lamb's card-player nun the artist get

together for a game. (so.) • 6. Fell in the Lakes. (4.) t. Rusty. (tct.)

it. One must one's weird. (4.)

12. Fibre in the little Wand. (5.) 13. The men who choose the team? (9.) Lt. A mother but he had none.

1 16. It can't be shared. (9.) 19. Truly rural. (9.)• 22. See the river? (4.) 25. Laundry account? (5, 4.)

26. For bus rides in ancient Athens?

28. just jot down a letter. (4.)

29. Stair limit. (Anag.) (to.)

30. The scent is lost. (4.)

31. Clara in depressions. (so.)

DOWN

I. But what is the baronet? A defence. (8.) 2. An Apocryphal book. (5.) 3. This ship one would think never needed a tug. (6.)

4. All they have to do is to succeed. (7.) 5. It's distinctive on our aircraft. (7.) 7. I love writing after pasteboard. (9.)

8. We slid in these. (6.)

11. - a part of speech suggesting modification, sometimes. (5.)

(4.)

(5.)

t5. Stage rite. (Anag.) (9.) 17. The right uplands for puzzle con- struction. (5.) NI. Goodness! Oh, so it's a flower ! (8.) 20. One about fifty and one and five and one. (7.)

21. Composition of a testy testator? (3, 4.)

23. Where Octavius defeated Antony. (6.) 24. Sirocco. (3, 3.) 27. ft is found in the make-up of Doctor Ionides. (5.)