SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1166

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ACROSS I. Poetic justice for eating for- bidden fruit (8, 4)

9. The feline infant who had trouble with his buttons in the tale (3, 6)

Enter, becoming wooden (5) Me astride a pony leads to one giving his name (6) A crafty journal with adherents among the diptcra? (8)

'Kind hearts arc more than coronets, And simple faith than — blood.' (Tennyson) (6)

Those excitable females! (8) Essentially incorporated (8) T.hc root of the mokc's tempta- tion (6) nein costs nothing and it's so abandoned (8) A state of nerve-racked brink- manship (2, 4)

1)0 wrong again; it's sticky (5)

23 26 27. A style to be found near Marble Arch (9) 28. Swceney's birds (12) DOWN I. Net trap changes shape (7) 2. More love confuses a great lover (5) 3. 'The King asked the Queen, and thc Queen asked the (A. A. Milne) (9) 4. The place for a view, by the sound of it (4) 5. Seasonably on loan, it's narcis- sistic (4, 4) 6. Scenery in the air? What a situation! (3-2) • 7. The children's patron has his station (7) 8. Two pears show up again (8) 14. Is this what Eve made hay with'? (3-5) 16. Simple melody, but certainly not hilt-billy! (9) 17. Is he a night-flyer, this great beast? (8) 18. Re-plays (7) 20. Tell sir to become something grown up (7) 22. A US soldier after good sport discovers the thallophytes (5) 24. How boring practice can be! (5) 25. The Indian Queen (4) Solution next week

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