"THE LISTENER" CROSSWORD

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 8

"THE LISTENER" CROSSWORD

(Solution to No. 706)

Clues Across

. "Full many a flower is born to . "Thrice is* he So often, made into a chain of flowers or leaves. . Tiny. pleats, sewn into a famous friar’s robe, perhaps? unseen" (Gray’s "Elegy’’). . Dress before time? Rubbish! Wilde wrote a play about the importance of being this. that hath his quarrel just’ ("Henry VI," Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2). . Employed in a famous educational institution. Happy-go-hucky Dry ong over there? _ This terrier has. nothing to. do with the Dogstarn Portions are in reverse ‘ig this band of leather.

23. Tops are made into grass. 26. Captivate. 27. Meeting-place. , 28. "Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own --" : ("Cymbeline," Act 3, Scene 1. 29. Silly. Clues Down

. This filament could be brief, and begins with a trivial lie. . Raises to the secofid power. . Pigment from a certain kind of earth. . Things afe a_ bit confused. . Rent over a _ fuss giving rise to a violent storm. .In "What Every Woman Knows" (Barrie), Maggie describes it as "a sort of bloom on a woman," » He appears with his cousin, Justice Shallow, and Sir Hugh Evans, at the beginning of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," . Show © resentment and ill-temper. . They are to be found above our 28 across.

15. ". . . or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the " ("Ecclesiastes," Chapter 12). 16. Praises in a confused way. 18. Imprisonment, usually vile. 20, A streak of this indicates cowardice. 22. Solemn ceremonies. 24. Four in a pot? It’s a turning point. 25. Portents.

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