Crossword-Solution: TIPSTER 7 letters, 48 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Brunger unlocked the roll-top desk; discovered the stump of a half-smoked cigarette; lit it and began to compare the day's racing selections of “Head Lad,” who imparted stable secrets to one tipster's organ, with those of “Trainer,” who from the knowledge of his position very kindly gave one horse snips to another.

Clean-shaven, with a short bulldog pipe in the corner of his mouth, a billycock hat set rather jauntily on his head, a short, drab-coloured overcoat of horsy cut, black and white check trousers, red-skin riding gloves, square-toed walking shoes, a light cane, and a rose in his buttonhole; you would have taken him at first sight for a sporting tipster.

But Gwyneth and I are not uncomfortably provided for, and I no longer contribute paragraphs of gossip to the Pimlico Postboy, nor yet do I vaticinate in the columns of the Tipster.

Back _Duke_--and my horses for the Cambridgeshire." New Carpet Knight not successful as a sporting tipster, seeing that Colonel DUKE, though he fought well, was beaten.

BELL: The devil a chance I’ve ever had of a gossip: and, as for news, I’ve had to fall back on the wormy Bible That props the broken looking-glass: so, now I’ve got the chance of a crack, my tongue goes randy; And patters like a cheapjack’s, or a bookie’s Offering you odds against the favourite, life: Or, wasn’t life the dark horse? I have talked My wits out, till I’m like a drunken tipster, Too milled to ken the dark horse from the favourite.