"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 70

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ACROSS r. A game of support for bacon (ro).

6. Work with credit for harvest (4).

9. Patriot without the Irish element (4).

He should be a man of good account (9).

13. Not quite what a cricketer means by having made a cut for three (9).

14. Blame her if you like (5).

15. They come in to estimates for repairs (4).

16. This horse is not necessarily irritable (to).

19. Scene of an English earth- quake? (to).

2x. Science with a sailor is not popular with strikers (4).

24. Hosts of darkness (5).

25. A big drop (9).

27. Purpose (9).

28. Browning's hair at Pornic (4).

29. He had a watertight monopoly

(a).

30. A Northumberland dog (ro). DOWN 2. A crop on the ice, perhaps (7).

3. A handy man, one might think (6).

4. A composition (5).

5. The result of bad art or bad economy (9). 7. Chef dar isn't We:sh unless it's this (7).

8. Not an account (2 words) (8, 4). t. It's topping (6).

52. An expert in figure work (12). 57. They and I will make it (9). 18. "How noble in -! how infinite in faculty! " (Shakes- peare) (6).

20. It flares (7).

22. Fellow leased (7).

13. The fabulous monster seems to be braked (6).

26. Twenty hundredweight not quite all (5). for cement but