"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 532

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8. ACROSS Such rising is a matter of time rather than altitude. (2, 4, 3, 4.) Nestlings that don't, fall out. (5.)

Write beer and include fish in it.

(5, 4.) One can get this with dripping. (6.) Silent contradiction. (6.) Cross-talk might silence itself. (4.) A hard case, this old man of the sea. (6, 4.) Not a play about gambling. (3, 7.) Transmogrification of Laud. (4.) Choice. (6.) This creature takes up half the ocean and has plenty of tail. (6.) It spells harm to her. (9.) Capital hero but his no following. (5.)

Flats for the inexperienced in literature ? (5, 8.)

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" I take my little - and eat my supper there" (Wordsworth). (9.)

Alone in France divides it. (6.) Anatomical cheer-provokers. (4.) Ethelberta's made a book. (4.) Dorset cove. (8.)

Would one expect a feather-bed in this ? (5.)

These should be fast, of course.

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Our pet lamb in a walk round. (13.) Black pier. (5.) "Determined, dared and done," he wrote. (5.) The calling of Diggory Venn. (9) Paolo Cagliari. (Si King next month. (6.) Instructional aspect of a fish. (5.) To be found among the Jewish emigrants. (4.) What's in a name ? (4.)