"The Spectator" Crossword No. 119

BY ZENO

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33 3 ACROSS 1. The soap-box orator generally does this.

6. What shame often gives rise to.

10. What wit can't get from a grindstone.

11. Found among hills.

14. Comparatively spirited.

15. The better part of this show is the exit.

17. This is where one must go.

18. Hereon hangs a great deal.

20. You won't find much in it- and not only because it's hollow.

23. It's a trick without seven's contribution.

25. It's always polite to do this.

26. Dogberry's famous mala- propism.

27. Will give you a heart-throb.

30. Yours truly.

31. The hirsute part of 13 appended backward on the article is the proper state.

32. What the inhabitants of a London suburb ought to be able to do.

33. You tread on the last part, although the whole thing caves in.

34. Always won at a football match.

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1. Certainly better eaten with such a remnant out.

2. Often seen around capitals.

3. Used for the clues in this puzzle. 4. The Christmas gifts most men would like to ex- change.

5. Would be deranged under the moon.

6. Subordinate things.

7. This sovereign would look fishy in America.

8. Around many a hearth.

9. The vowels from 13.

11. Deep exit (anag.).

12. Ready to be drawn into smoke.

13. Plant in the midst of many sibilants.

16. Often lies in a swift or rapid estuary (hidden).

19. For religious Italians.

21. Such a piece is always what its reversed syllables say.

22. Chance has a lot to do with this. That's obvious enough !

24. Fat chance of getting this.

27. Head of a famous fiddler.

28. Singular, but every second person used this in olden times.

29. Found in 27 across.