SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 816

ACROSS

1 The convicts are beginning to show their age (8).

5 Beast of burden needs lubrica- tion (6).

how to deal with this (3, 5).

10 A hundred hold me fast (6).

12 I am, Your obedient servant (6).

13 Clang in a word (8).

15 The dog-faced baboon (12). 18 O.C. promised us (anag.) (12).

24 'And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her - and her eyes' (Byron) (6).

26 Military decoration round the Ber- bers is three-cleft (6).

7 27 It takes a saint to stimulate ad- vance (8).

28 'Oh! that we two were -' (Kings- ley) (6).

29 29 Whence the Parsee watched the

Rhinoceros putting on his skin (4-4). • 1 Broken gaol-hush! (6).

2 Foggy journey occupied these days (6).

3 Grand if it's more than a shilling (7).

4 'To - me with its soft black eye' (Moore) (4).

6 The last appears in secret (7).

7 It isn't reckless when the umpire does (8).

8 Or the orbs of the Signorina? (8). II Negative poetry? (7).

14 Who sneers, ask the birds (7).

16 Audit man lost in the fernery (8).

17 Was this a quality of Percy Dacier's Constance? (8).

19 Rise to give thanks among the stars (7).

20 The pen of a rake? (7).

21 The Archdeacon always gets a fine sheet (6).

22 Position for an address, not neces- sarily 19 (6).

25 The Painted Porch (4).

Solution will be published on January 21 SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 814 ON PAGE iii

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