THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 655
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ACROSS
1. One should know this writing well enough. (8.) 5. Empty stops. (6.) 9. Honorific for the cloth. (8.) 10. A girl meets trouble and there's another. (6.) 12. Rat in the period, full of mistakes. (6.) 13. Flute saw a mixture. (8.) 15. Savouring oil (snag.). (12.) 18. A gay song seemingly of a flower, a general and nothing more. (12.) 23. It was in a hollow square in "Danny Deever." (IL) 24. Opposite of "on end " ? (6.) 26. No doubt they are subject to petti- coat government. (6.) 27. Muse of roundabout music ? (8.) 28. So gray the craft might be. (6.)
29. Gastronomic attraction in ancient Egypt. (5, 3.)
DOWN
I. "She very imprudently married
the (Foote). (6.) ii,., 2. Company green and hiddear., , 3. Has she the Nelson touch.1 (7. 4. "All unseen, romance broillOst" the - fifteen" (Kipling). '(C) iII 6. Such a horse as a 'pig, has foils times over. (7.)
7. Just the meeting for is flood of oratory. (13.) S. Dark night, dull cast. (8.) 11. He sounds like a border-liner. (7.) 14. Serpentine. (7.) 16. Richardson's Miss Marlowe. (8.) 17. Stealing that might earn itself. (8.) 19. Companions at the wicket ? (7.) 20. Gambles of empire. (7.) 21. Make good. (6.) 22. In the equipment of the Merchant adventurers. (6.)
25. "We and - must take him as we find him" (Kipling). (4.)
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