Crossword no. 1339
Across I Pilgrimage? (8)
S 'Eternal — of the chainless mind!' (Byron) (6) 9 Artemisia inspires youthful passion (4, 4)
10 Greek croaker is carved (6) 12 Ah, Latin for the comic muse (7) 13 It has no place in Nigeria; hasn't it, though? (7) 14 See 15.
17 Settling into the best seats (12)
22 Horace's Good Man (7)
23 Sticky business in the court of Paris (7)
24 Sentimental Journeyer takes a serious turn, we hear (6) 25 Floral envelope (8) 26 'That — the honey of his music vows' (Hamlet) (6) 27 Tall supporter, rather on the thin side (4-4) • Down
1 What's the civil service for? (6) 2 One with a casting vote is often out (3, 3) 3 One and all in the red but recovered (7)
4 Laurentian architecture? (5, 7) 6 Clean place in France, but the limit here! (7)
7 Raved about his turn, was quite charmed (8)
8 For drinks at a Barmecide feast? (8) 11 Square neckerchief for Miss Blaise? (7-5) 15, 14 In short, take a cab for solution of your problem! (8, 6, 6) 16 Keeping up the same old pressure presumably (8) 18 Circus clown spends the holiday month going east (7) 19 One slight change will ensure great applause for this speech (7) 20 Drink with zest, luv! (6)
21 Explosive, yes. Bald, no (6)
Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1338. Across: 1 Accidental 6 Grip 10 Grief 11 Gastropod 12 Leicester 13 Cribs 14 Nightpiece 16 Ossa 18 Plat 20 Prison-bars 23 Titan 24 Governing 27 Selenites
28 Diana 29 Seth 30 Greyfriars. Down: 1 Angel 2 Chiming 3 Deflects 4 Night 5 Abstracts 7 Replies 8 Pedestals 9 Trick 14 Nepotists 15 Irrigator 17 Intruder 19 Astolat 21 Ali Baba 22 Anent 25 Vasty 26 Glass.
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