THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 134

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ACROSS

2. A stout nail's concealed in these (at).

9. Charles Farrar Browne much more briefly (5).

:e. Fit and dressed for hunting (3 words) (2, 35 4)- Is something wrong with creation? (9).

It wasn't his raven that said " Nevermore " (5).

A peremptory question often heard at 23 (2 words) (4, 4).

.5. " - abide our question, thou art free " (M. Arnold) 6).

17. A clove is enough to make it (6).

19. The priest all shaven and shorn? (8).

23. The question referred to in .13 is not asked in this House (5).

24. The celebrated " spreading chestnut " seems almost to have been an example of these (9).

16. Damns lino, but say it with music (9).

27. By no means to imply that the celebrated scientist is boastful (5). 28. Flk cowed nag in this con- fusion (II).

DOWN

1. Swinburne's sister (7).

2. Croesus's kingdom (5).

3. Bun in test (8).

4. They are brought to book (6). 5. Householders, though liking adulation, often think them- selves unjustly this (9).

6. Plant (7).

7. Wesley's world (6).

8. Not the meaning of high-balls in U.S.A. (6).

14. I take stock under a large overturned vessel (9).

16. The ex-king makes whoopee round the States (8).

17. Perpendicularity (6).

18. Where Sir John Moore fell (7)-

20. A mean sort of affair from which women are said to shrink ;7).

2r. This is earlier in the alphabet than the V-sign (6).

22. Are you disguised? 0 no Sir! (6).

25. Travelled like 'a doctored horse (5).