17 DECEMBER 1965, Page 24

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1201

ACROSS 1. To find the lady there must be an appearance of concord (8) 5. Cockbird, pretty blue? (6) 9. Going up-country, Cyrus? (8) 10. Men ply in the old Portus Limanis (6) 12, Hold it! (6) 13. Impeded by the picnic baskets? (8) 15. Waterman? (12) 18. But it is the host who needs endurance when guests display ill (7-5)

23. What a little bird told the ancient Roman? (8)

24. What the electrician calls about has a negative result (6) 26. Dickensian bells (6) 27. Poetically recommended to be gathered when opportunity offered (8) 28. Attack a stupid fellow; what's wrong with that? (6)

29. Chaps agree in an intellectual way (8)

DOWN Warm proposals? (6) Weights tested in the market (6) Batty but sparkling appearance in the sky, according to the Ilatter (3-4) Live it up? It's very wrong (4) Heavenly place for games (7) Area of leading AA guns seem- ingly (8) Nothing to do thereabout for a chap with a theatrical Co. (8) Not up to an Archbishop, Stephen? Yes and no! (7) Bandmaster might be so decor- ated in Ranaria (7) Home, home on the range, Sehor? (8) Financial results of two kinds of refresher (8)

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