SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,018

Solution on November 28

ACROSS 29

1 The workbasket's contribution to

Hamlet's armoury (6) 30 4 Prerequisite to a job at Scotland Yard ? (4, 4) 10 Schedule of dwellings at the piggery perhaps (7) 11 About the rent, excellent! (7) 12 The meticulous walker might find the knitter's reinforcements here useful (4, 3,3) 13 Shut like this (4)

15 (7) All, Sire, present for the meetings

17 One patronised the tote (7)

19 Early sun is necessary to produce potatoes (7) 21 I weep with classic art (7)

23 Shipwreck (4)

24 '0 most lame and impotent (Shakespeare) (10)

27 Charge for chap and time (7) 28 Mitre, Pa? his son might inquire! (7)

Down-trodden folk who might feel the impact of 12 across (8) Uncoil the serpents and see what they are (6)

DOWN

We hear we have a foreman in the Straits (9) The monk shouldn't get rheuma- tism here though he might get a shock (3, 4) Saint I omit from these perform- ances (10) Black paper with a change of air for patriots (9)

Get the gen on drugs Pile up the tee, putting vigour into it (7) A gust blowing from the river (5) Lost in itself maybe (4) Whereon to find Brown (10) Lemon's not sleepy (9) Strides in (anag.) (9) 2 3 S 6 7 8 9 14 16 18 20 The French entertainment in short is warlike (7) 22 A liberal gets a degree, by magic formula perhaps? (3, 4) 23 Get busy to the same end (5) 25 Heads of the police force? (4) 26 of mind, all passion spent' (Milton) (4)

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