"The Spectator" Crossword No. 27

BY XANTHIPPE.

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ACROSS.

1. -Flower which suggests that a drink went up.

4. We all know that the Royal one is Buckingham Palace, but there is always a debate about it after the opening of Parliament.

8. A stiffener and a fossil resin make a dreaded court (two words )..

11. Gumption.

12. At the end of the class.

13. Not so big.

15. 'Seven were against it.

16. Adorned, or descriptive of a ship.

17. A sort of cutting up that is much attacked.

20. Gladstone was this hope of the stern, unbending Tories.

22. Expresses disapproval.

23. Grumbles, gamely.

24. " Any old- " was, and still is, a Champion song.

26. The man inside the phalanx.

27. Mostly used as a contemptu- ous description of Africans (in Kenya and elsewhere), but might apply even to the English (two words). 28. Colourful epithet for Mod- erate Labour.

29. Lionize.

DOWN.

1. Oxford or Cambridge college.

2. Invert a London newspaper for a Tory comment on it.

3. " Inoculation, heavenly maid, descend ! " She did, and produced these. SOLUTION NEX 5. Epithet for an historical Abdul.

6. A staggering product of Scotland, or of filmland. 7. I do like to be beside it in song. .

8. Overseeing.

9. This strikes the happy medium, but usually satis- fies nobody. 10. It is not true that the Liberal Leaders recently met to elect a this (three words). 13. Waiting upon. 14. Gives up. - 18. Epithet for one of a Fascist leader's bodyguard ?

19. Foolish.

21. Weight units. 22. It suggests " the muffin. dinons seas inearnaduce," but it's branded.

25. Aromatic balsam.

26. A keeper of sheep.