"The Spectator" Crossword No. 228 BY Zrzro.

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ACROSS 1. "Thou wert my guide friend."

9. " The. . passion, be it what It will,

The... passion conquers reason attn."

12. rev. " Do by stealth, and blush to d (15) . " 15. See 12.

16. " science only will ... genius fit ; So vast Is (23), so narrow human wit."

17. " A ninth , added to the eighth In Scripture : ' Blessed Ie he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disap- pointed.' " 20. My first is unchecked in 1 across, my second In 1 down.

21. " Loose to the wind their airy gar- ments flew, Thin glittering . . . of the filmy dew."

22. This will be found embedded In 18.

23. See 16.

24. This will make Ink hold the opinion. 25. rev. Person's private room. 26. One's reckoning will be out less this. 27. " Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor ... the last to lay the old (37)." 28. rev. " Give me again my hollow , A crust of bread, and (3)." 31. Vowels.

32. " Love, free as . . . , at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."

34. rev. See 38.

85. rev. " Pride, the never-failing vice . . . fools."

85. " If to her share some female errors. • .

Look on *her face, and you'll forget them all."

87. See 27.

39. " Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws . . . with a single hair."

40. " . simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines."

42. " in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against . . . praise." 43. Undressing will leave us with a thing to be learnt 1

DOWN

-1. " Irted like a plant, on his peculiar draw draw nutrition, . . . , and rot."

and 2. " The . . judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine." 8. Bee 28.

4. " And make each day a critic . the last."

IL My first is unchecked In 43, my second in 8.

6. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be , needs but to be seen."

7. " Sacred to . . . his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song."

8. " . - smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."

10. " Heaven first taught . . . for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid."

11. (let a herd (anag.).

13. Swampy ground.

14. " And he whose eo sublimely bad. It is not poetry, but prose run mad."

18. " With lenient arts . . . a mother's I reath, %like languor smile, and smooth the bed of death."

19. " Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his . tongue."

29. " Die of a . In aromatic pain." 80. rev. "True wit is nature to advan- tage drese'd,

What . . . was thought, but ne'cr so well express'd." 33. " . . his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? " (Two words.) 38. rev. It is made very small with 34. 41. The end of 35.