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ACROSS

1. What a mordant footballer if taken literally! (9.) 5. Did he go to sea with a four-wheeler and half the Bible ? (5.) 8. Mill's raw material. (5.) 9. According to Coleridge they never appear alone. (9.) 11. Not necessarily a native of U.S.A. (9.) 12. Sir Philip who captured the " Chesa- peake." (5.) 13. Often caught though never pursued.

(4.) 14. Flush reef (anag.). (9.) 18. Clues to heaven ? (9.) 21. One might expect to see them in the jungle Press. (4.) 23. Nothing to a lip except a kiss. (5.) 25. Stubborn, as the result perhaps, of a diet of brawn. (9.) 27. Literary stars. (9).

28. Six-and what's for dinner ? (5.) 29. What the fields do goes to the making of 8. (5.) 30. Get sinews (anag.). (9. )

DOWN

1. Choose a vehicle and go back in it.

(5.) 2. Is this what the men of Pekin are made of ? (5, 4.) 3. " Eating the - bread of banish- ment " (Shakespeare). (6.) 4. Is this the hair-dresser in the middle of the road ? (7.) 5. " Grey matter." (8.) 6. Cheer for the ruffian. (5.) 7. One usually does of things that are too 3. (5, 4.) 10. Their habits don't make them, it is said. (5.) 13. Wilberforce pictured himself as one on the plains of Timbuctoo. (9.) 15. What the above would have done to a missionary. (3.) 16. Subtly and invisibly mended. (9.) 17. Dim peers (anag.). (8.) 19. " Every gift of noble origin Ts breathed upon by perpetual breath " (Wordsworth). (5.) 20. The wisdom of the French. (7.) (6.) 22. Monkey not lacking in energy. 24. Measure of a tiler. (5.) 26. Yesterday's knuts. (5.)