THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 83

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ACROSS An English town much inferior to the Red Sea (8).

5. Poetically a little of the dic-

tionary is prohibited (6). 9. A humble conveyor of muni- tions in the raw (8).

to. Not awake, please (6). 12. A piece of rhyme (6).

t3. Boaster with a palindromic heart (8).

15. Through this, nowadays no doubt, the view is too often German (2 words) (6, 6). 18. A student of insurance? (2 words) (7, 5).

23. A fairy with doweries of stones (8).

24. Me never! (6).

26. Guardsman of musical title (6).

27. Jane was ours (8).

28. Net (6).

29. Made, perhaps, by the queen (of 22 down) (2 words) (3,5).

DOWN 1. Not necessarily a bird of revolution (6). 2. Lisped for a change (6).

3. It's so biting (7).

4. The wood-worker doesn't come in ; that's fishy! (4).

6. Donkey, for example, first class (7).

7. Not necessarily a regiment of extreme Tories (8). 8. Inverness as defined by another place (8).

t. He is associated with a lute (7).

14. Enliven (7).

16. It lives on air (8). 17. Inheritance for which the inheritor appears to appear (8).

19. In sand I disguise them (7). 20. Like Hamlet's father's tetter (7).

21. " Is this a - which I see before me, The handle towards my hand? " (Shakes- peare) (6).

22. See 29 (6). 25. Mixed oats (4).