THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 160

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• His Scotch zeal produces this flower. . Brush in the desert.

. She accompanied Christopher Robin to Buckingham Palace. s. "E'en in our ashes live their Wonted —" (Gray). Euphemistic Furies.

3." . . and snowy old in story." (Tennyson.) Superlatively mean. . Sea in peas. It fills out the figures, whether literary Or Saririal. . Suffering from too much govern- ment?

• . . the taut Frail dangerous ways That link across wide gulfs remote Analogies." (Aldons Huxley.) Or am I transformed?

• He comes from the West Indies. • Perhaps people plume themselves who are so light.

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2. Half-sheep is the answer. 3. Marble or Tara's.

4. A hundred black birds.

S lie simply doesn't look 'where he is going.

" A — captain eke was he Of famous London town." (Cowper.) 7.1 dial for this. 8. Repose expands the abstainer, particularly when using this.

9. The buffets one might expect from the shirty. 14. Tin credit (snag.).

16. She had a German garden.

17. Such introductions are little MOM than verse.

18. Home front munitions.

19. It's on the Camel but not CAI the camel's back.

20. It seems the right island for the harvest.

22. What Eros did in the boat?

23. He wrote operas not lullabies.