THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 620
[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. April 17th
ACROSS L So it v..tsn't a very long vigil (8, 5.) 10. " - don't last, cookery do I" (Meredith). (7.) 11. Did it brighten things up for Noah ?
(7.)
12. " With forced fingers,- Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year" (Milton). (4.) 13. Felix would be a misnomer in his Case. (10.) 15.Led until discordant. (3, 5.) 16. A girl that sounds like a man. (6.) 18. He wrote "A Life for the Tsar." (6.) 20.Red crate (snag.). (8.) 23. Shabby, it may be, yet equipped to make one's way in a crowd. (3, 2, 5.) 24. Edward Lear's ditched cat. (4.) 26. Not so polished at cards? (7.) 27. Tend not to draw in Pencil ? (7-)
28. A chump one day, and a loin the next (4, 3, 6.)
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2. An afterthought on a broken lid. (7.)
3. Steal a bed. (4.) 4. Where to find the ashes, but not, evidently, thankfully. (8.) 5. It goes to leg mute often, on and off the cricket field. (6.) 6. Theirs if a telling gift. (10.) ate a lens. (7.)
7. It yields
8. The sort of authority to expect under
petticoat government. (8, 5.) 9. Mudguards of die past disfigure writing with reckless parenthetes. (13.)
14. No doubt the child would prefer one that sells spades, too. (6, 4.) 17. Mad on ice (snag.). (8.) 19. Frankly, what paper did you Kt it in 1 (2, 5.) 21. Good in the kitchen, bad in the ledger. (7.)
22. Two bob for nil one can make of it (6.)
25. It can be found in fact and fiction alike. (a.)
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