SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1209

ACROSS 27.

I. Fellow-worker, or black-leg? (12) 9. Presumably Kipling's soldier got bloomin' seven a week (9)

10. An avuncular relationship is unavoidable with her (5)

11. Take possession of the field? (6) 12. Fido's tipple? (8) 2.

13. Must they be seen to be be- lieved? (6) 15. Ban rises among the Slays (8) 3.

18. Yeats's leguminous nine (4-4) 4.

19. A crafty offer (6) 5.

21. As known in the nursery, her daughter hid under a frying- 6.

pan! (8) 7.

23. 'At Flores in the - Sir Richard Grenville lay' (Tenny- 8. son) (6)

26. How best to deal with the child- 14.

ren? (5) 16. An agent of prohibition, per- haps (9) Flighty bits for the escorting crew? (7-5) DOWN Do true London ones keep their wares upstairs? (7) 'Lord, Lord, how this world is given to -' (Shakespeare) (5)

A gill, a hill and a reptile (9) Nothing on a colleen (4) Be one, and become con- spicuous? (8)

Nor is it the birds. But it isl (5) Steve, backing up to British Rail, gets promotions (7) This is the way to be in the pink (8) Senior senors (8) Lord of the Flies (9) 28.

1. 17. Writing, given a pound, will get spinning (8) 18. Bed tale behind the times (7) 20. About kinds of haunts (7) 22. Cave! He'll get you in the back (5) 24. It goes round and round and up and down (5) 25. A catty bit of gossip (4) Solution next week

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