CROSSWORD No. 1256
ACROSS 1. Go halves? (6) 4. Pbrtia's calling (8) to. By which to get the measure of years on the land? (7) it. It's a bit thick for the water-colourist (7) 12.. Professor in the pink at home with Robin Hood (to) 13. Stone missing from the light creates a whirl (4) 15. How to do a spiritual send-up? (7) 17. It's a close thing for a daring young man (7) 19. Fishy-looking individual who might find himself
up the creek without a paddle (7)
2T: Beam like Louis XIV? (7) 23. By so being they will be themselves (4) 24. It is :he root of many a caper (to) up the spout causing a
27. st°3eknoppaegye (31i12-4g)let goes
28. A mixed-up apparition 1(7)
29. Calm sea under Hesperus (4-4) 30. 'With bubbles winking at the brim' (Keats: (6)
DOWN z. With which to shore up an assault? (5-4)
2. 'All things counter, original, spare, -' (Hop- 16110(7)
3. The kind of loving which begins at home (to) 5. By which to lead the vicar on ?
6. Look, the responsibility is ours ! (4) 7. Where to make a song and dance in Greece (7) 8. It's hard on the nails (5) 9. A landmark of German opera? (4) 54. A bit of a ballad on the margin (6-4) 16. How Midas was set aside? (3-6) 18. The musical country of marble halls (9) zo. A botanical example for heroic seasoning? (3-4) 22. Is a need shown for this herb? (7)
23. 'Oh, when I. was in love with you Then I was clean and -' (Housman) (5)
25. Mark the credit (4) 26. Blake's sad little girl.
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