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ACROSS

(9.) 17. Vigorous. (9.)

1. " The liner, she's a lady,"-this. (Lovelace.) (7.)

It's always record weather in their the palm. (7.)

)W I It might have been ours. (4.) (7.)

10 4. The heart of Poe. (8.) 23. Able to make troop. (5.) " Harry the king, Bedford and - 25. It's lust wrong. (5.) 0 Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and

Gloucester." (Shakespeare.) (6.) SOLUTION TO A game for photographers. (4-)

It might with reason be tailed the itrait gate. (6, 4.) Not the instrument of a dull Hebrew. (4, 4.) Turn. (6.) " E'en in our live their wonted fires." (Gray.) (5.) " Sent up Unity, Claribel, Assyrian and Golden Gain." (Kipling.)

DOWN

Hard times. (4, 3.).

" Crier -, makes the fairy oyes." (Shakespeare.) (9.) A lunar change. (5.) Fall back. (7.)

Prodigal fare. (5.)

Time off has a certain ending. (7.)

15. Paper money as flavour is rising. (8.) 9. These are made with these and a Fellow of the Royal Society. (8.)

a. French goods. (6.) with shriller throat shall sing."

might be her spouse. (8.) 20. Thanks to a confused pilot we get case. (to.) 21. A motionless something unnamed.