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ACROSS

1. Broomstick?

9. Early battle dress.

to. What's the matter alas

foot?-

II. Age and ire mingle in a counsellor.

12. The cowslips were Titania's.

20. State for which 9 would be suit- able array.

21. "- thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity." (Milton.)

22. Not Abie's Irish ruse evidently. 23. Meets ruin (anag.) 26. Serves as dessert after stinking fish, perhaps (2 wds.) (4, 6).

31. Sir Philip Sidney's star. 32. Occult.

33. Eggs in the car.

34. It's all the same to me!

DOWN

2.. Jun the girl for a quiet hour. 3. Manly blemishes.

4. Mild cigar.

" Where through the long-drawn and fretted vault." (Gray.) 6. Grandfather's contribution to Scott. 7. Carrot inflorescence. 8. di Lammermoor.

"To scatter - o'er a smiling land." (Gray.)

13. Common to cheap wines and spirits.

14. Instruction to those in the queue? 5. "Pale hands I loved " were likened to these buds.

with your 16. Where M. Stalin finds all the winners? (z wds.) (3, 4). r7. He polishes 'em off.

18. " We are laid - In body, and become a living soul." (Words- worth.) 19. Arrange these as best you can.

24. Where to get a drink on the quiet.

25. Magic of Mozart.

26. An habitual dismisser?

27. Pope from the City.

28. Breezy doctor.

29. You will find Sam as good as his master, though in India. 3o. Oust.