ACROSS

1. An obligation which some burghers failed, with disastrous results, to discharge in 1376. (6, 3, 5.)

10. Little wood. (7.) 11. Tearful. (7.) 12. "Her name, that was as - As Dian's visage is now begrimed and black" (Shakespeare). (5.) 13. No doubt it is among the trials of a musician. (4, 5.) 14. Has he the power to stop the writing of long poems ? (7.) 16. The original Jim Crow. (4.) 19. Letters on letters, how shocking! (4.) 20. Just a bit. (7.)

23. "We know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines' (Meredith). (9.)

25. One of them was sufficient for Cowper. (5-)

26. Classical figure which, divided, pro- vides a convivial occasion. (7.)

27. To be found in the Book of Numbers ?

(7.) 28. Dull winter begs to be transformed in a place of spring. (9, 5.)

DOWN

2. Order for a bed. (5, 3.) 3. The right bull to make into stew. (5.)

4. Some have it thrust upon them. (9.)

5. Employees upon whom Cases called.

(5.)

6. In Ceylon, according to the hymn. writer, they all please. (9.)

7. The most notorious was at Coventry.

(6.)

8. Indispensable to those who a c keen on junketting. (6.)

9. Chests become derisive when treated like whiting. (7.) 15. It goes up to the pistol-case. (9.) 16. "Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood with solemn - " (Shakespeare). (9.) 17. Lay figure from Scott. (8.) 18. They appear as Lewes changes. (7.) 21. It just shows the mess a promise may land one in. (6.) 22. Glastonbury perhaps. (6.)

24. Antelope that is a magician mostly. (5.)

.25 Meets for a sifter. (5.)