" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 519
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ACROSS
1. Standard of easy fracture. (8.)
5. May be drawn according to time- table or by appointment. (6.) 9. Sport of Eton an ? (4, 4.)
10. Not quite the philosopher to write a life of Niobe. (6.) 12. Pope's great queen fails to keep an even balance. (9.) 13. Pen author. (5.) 14. Tony Weller said he had been called one. (6.) 17. Stage husband opens a game of cards. (5.) 20. A portion of tripe rather over- cooked. (5.) 21. Stout fellow (6.) 24. Dress, not pyjamas, evidently. (3, 2.) 25. Belle nuit (snag.). (9.) 28. A weevil and oil, possibly, from the Pacific. (6.) 29. Instrument of Biblical chastisement.
30. Female aspect of Bumble's defini- tion of the law. (3, 3.)
31. Enables after victory to make a name for himself. (8.)
DOWN
1. A pair of feet. (6.) 2. Suburb compounded of beer and spirit. (6.) 3. Kingly. (5.) 4. Let us take a turn with the elect.
6. A fighting ship. (9.) 7. Keats rated the unheard ones sweeter. (8.) 8. I try less to make it. (8.) 11. " This house is turned upside down since Robin - died " (Shake- speare). (6.) 15. Poet alleged to have been hounded to death. (9.) 16. Decline when neck is twisted. (6.) 18. Might Macintosh be expected to sell them ? (3, 5.) 19. That shrew of an airwoman ! (8.) 22. The last adjective to describe 19.
23. Venetian ones interested Ruskin.
26. " When Jacob grazed his - Laban's sheep " (Shakespeare). (5.) 27. Jewish mystic. (5.)
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