" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 319

BY ZENO

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ACROSS

2. " An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, . . . without, and a warm heart within."

11."Moping melancholy, And* . . madness."

14. rev. See so.

15. " For he might have been a (3), A French, or Turk or ... , Or perhaps I-tal-i-an ! "

18. rev. " Than a successive title, long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's . . ."

19. " Now for the tea of our ... Now for the rollicking bun- Now for the muffins and (23)." 20. " With books and money plac'd for show, Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false ... pay."

21. See 32., 22. " But-oh ye lords of ladies intel- lectual !

Inform us truly, have they not . you all ? " 23. See 19. 24. rev. " Like a man made after supper of a ... -paring."

26 with 36. " Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel ;

Where none are beaux, 'tis . to be a belle."

27. " , spread yourselves."

3o. rev. and 14. " You beat your . . and fancy wit will come ;

Knock as you please, there's nobody at home."

31. " You are not like ... , three gentle- men at once, are yon ? "

35. " But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,

oh ! . . . me fronithe Candid Friend ! " And without sneering, to sneer."

5. A congress with the unchecked letters of t.

6. " 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in ... is twice a saint in lawn."

7. A bit of hick.

8. rev. Worn round a kilt.

9. " Who lees with equal eye, as God of all, A A. .. perish, or a sparrow fall." ro. " Accept a miracle, instead of wit,- See two dull lines with . . . pencil writ."

12. A chiel's amang ye takin' . . And, faith, he'll prent it." 13. " The ... of a aim world and a long pace." 16. " I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled .. " 17. " Though elual. to all things, for all things unfit ; Too . . . for a statesman, too proud for a wit."

18. rev. Head of Arabian tribe.

25. " The right honourable gentleman- has retired into what may be called his political . . of Adullam."

27. Two initials of author of "It's a weary world, and nobody bides in't."

28. rev. " Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey,

Dost sometimes counsel take-and sometimes . . ."

29. rev. See 34. 32 with 2t.•` But ah ! what mighty Magick can assuage A Woman's envy, and a Bigot's ? " 33. My first and second are unchecked in 37. 34 and 29. A flake of soot. 36. See 26. teach the rest

37. rev. " And . . . of herself, though china fall."

38. " There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality, in . . ."

DOWN

2. " Stating that he would not stand it, Stating in ... language

What he'd be before he'd stand it."

2. " Al mita' sy were the ... , And the mote raths outgrabe."

3. See x5. 4. "Damn with faint praise, . . . with civil leer,