14 JANUARY 1966, Page 26

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1205

1. Knocked aboat in the fish and chip shop? (8) 5. Having fallen ti cm the apex (6) 23. Applaud a quick exit? What nonsense (8) 24. Do they get taken in as a result of an entreat} on a back-street? (6) 12. Where one might expect to find one's aunt's pen. perhaps (5)

13. Trompe-l'oeil in black and white (9)• 14. This is how the complete lover should be! (5-7) 18. . . the paragon of animals! And yet, to me what is this — of dust?. (Shakespeare) (12)

21. How to take the music in a built-up area? (9) 23. The sun-god looks both ways. hot on the trail of a cheery bit of Irish (5) 24. Open the keg, you say? You'll get a clip (6) 25. With which to take a chance and purchase the above? (3-5) 26. There's that bookish girl (6) 27. Is it symptomatic of combined operations: (8) DOWN Sounds like a bit of cheek to fix a belt (6) Ran into a confused detective in a dazed condition (6) Come in awkwardly and-gossip, and have a bit of a dance. per- haps (9) Having a good sense of news- value, but not the Fleet Street kind! (12)

How's that shady lady looking?

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Legendary Cornish onions? (8) How Pluto is inclined to be- come a swell (8)

Are such shells the stock-in- trade of gun-runners? (4. 8) Currently asserted to get hailed (9)

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15. 16. A dispute arising out of a young pigeon found on the French corn (8) 17. The rear deer (8) 19. Depart after an expression of content, like a Yank over the border (6) 20. Where to have taken a walk to find Carlyle? (6) 22. Here the sculptor might find himself (5)

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