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Across
1. Mistaken by a Carroll character for a banker's clerk. (12.)
D. Could a Manx publisher use one ? (9.) D. Hood that might he made to accom- modate cars. (5.) 1. Talk of the rain-drops. (6.) 2. Does this keep the daily worker in ? (8.) 3. The Christian is urged not to seek it yet. (6.) 5. Broken cues before the fast. (8.) 8. Fail to get the trophy ? (8.) 9. Throw it back for the painter. (6.) 1. Cooking utensil above the actor's head. (8.) 23. " Curl'd minion. -, coiner of sweet words " (Arnold). (6.)
16. Colin to be retained till June. (5.) t7. 'Taint Eric (snag.) (9.)
18. Surely the play ran beyond this (7, 5.)
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I. Harry for Soccer. (7.)
2. Fresh standard. (5.) 3. Hamlet referred to his wrong. (9.) 4. Females in poetry. (4.) S. Sauce-boat. (8.) 5. The lip for stiffness. (5.) 7. A sort of joint support. (7.) 8. ' The wanton (Marvell). (8.) 14. The First Sea Lord. (8.) 16 The faith of Charming. (9.) 17. Close air (anag.) (8.) 18. Like that entertaining old lantern. (7.) 20. " The - roared and we did buffet it " (Shakespeare). (7.) 22. No wit on a leash. (2, 3.) 24. The sound of the bell. (5.) 25. Reader's standing order. (4.) riding by "