12 MARCH 1965, Page 30

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1161

ACROSS 25.

1. The Lawrence of Australia (8)

5. A rise leads to quick work. at Cape Kennedy? (6) 9. Heaps of whipped theam? (8) 10. Hemingway's ancient mariner (3, 3)

12. Sketch in the tavern is like a breath of air (7) 13. Nothing 1 can do in Latin for the marsupial (7) 14. Hats to wear after the game 4. (4-8) 17. Where to find the booking office? (7-5) 7.

22. A chilly sheet of northern waters (7) 23. Literary suppression, but nothing to do with the censor! (7) 24. '1 can trace my ancestry back 15. to a protoplasmal primordial - globule' (Gilbert) (6)

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8. How a highbrow takes the plunge (8) Novel girl and aquatic, too (6) Witness round a trial (8) DOWN The French skip round the Greek vase (6) Such lack of pretension brings an end to a game (2-4) 1 get at a way to make trouble (7) Music is grist to his mill, as it were (5-7) Persuasive unguent? (4-3) Caught, perhaps, but without being noticed (8) The last deer? (8) A corresponding delay, perhaps (12) 'funnier 'ammer 'animer along the 'ard 'igh road.' What's miss- ing? (8)

16. It holds up an entrance which is often barred! (8)

18. Choose right moment for a sick joke (3-4) 19. The instrument of Sleeping Beauty's fate (7) 20. Gain a final victory in the open (3, 3) 21. Donkey-engine (6)

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