"The Spectator" Crossword No, 1o(

BY ZENO

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ACROSS 1. Roundabout speech.

13. These are always attractive.

14. Anno domini makes it heavy. 15 rev. Make malicious gossip.

18. S.A. uncle.

19. With its fourth for its first quarter the passageway becomes dash.

21. Rank.

22. Prepare a ball.

23. Pull on the bridle back- wards.

24. Dangerous finger-rests.

28. This mixed with 14 can make you 6.

29. Wishful state liked by 4.

30. Most of Dryden is this. 33 rev. Profiteers in new allot- ments.

35. State of antiques ?

36. Right at your finger-tip.

37. Disappears when you stand up.

38. Large gull.

39. Hangers-on of 36.

DOWN

1. Causes of 1 Across..

2. Showing earliest indications of animal life.

3. I star men (anag.).

4. Time-waster. 6. There are no virtuosos is this instrument now.

7. Nothing will make thi suitable for winter.

8. rev. And not.

9. Absence of pain.

10. Part of the Church Body.

11. The end of 27.

12. Sluggish thorn.

13. In your brother's eye.

16. Intimate cognomen.

17. Proof-sheet direction co: meting a correction.

20. O.

25. Albert Hall will soon bet

26. Root of 30 (rev.). 27 rev. Perigee of moon. 29. Fife in Roman times.

31. Northern sea-bird.

32. Often around victuals. 34. "That's . . . . "