" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 251

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ACROSS

r. Keynote of Mr. Middleton's advice to 'extravagant gardeners ?

8. Here one might find far more than one sweet tooth.

9. He spoils the party in short. II. Back for a duck.

12. Funeral dirge about the rose ?

14- Getting a move on.

16. Ground nuts.

18. " Her march is o'er the mountain waves.

Her home is on the .. " (Campbell). /9. Confused, I trip mates, and do not therefore display it. (4, 6). 21. Where you would have found part of 14 before 5872.

22. " And even the ranks of Tuscany Could . . . . forbear to cheer" (Macaubiy).

is. It would suit musicians but not fishermen.

26. Such procedure is adopted for divers reasons.

27. 0 Claim no star, even paradoxically here I

DOWN

I. It is well with the saint.

2. The exhausted oarsman's cry.

3. Fashionable by the Dead Sea.

4. Car gambles (anag.).

5. It's rich.

6. Drink in a gale. 7. How not and how to carve tooside (5, 3, 4).

to. " But I was. . . No use to talk to me." (A. E. Housman). (3, 3, 6.) 3. Encourage.

15. They go beneficially to one's head. 57. Peculiar medicine.

20. Untidy cubs.

23. Bucolic.

24. What one would expect to find in a rustic almshouse.