Crossword no. 1300
Across
1 Supported in retreat? (6)
4 Give us the paper, mon! (8) 10 Receives short accounts about excess profits tax (7) 11 The inept VIP (7) 12 Pictures from Arras? (10) 13 The stuff of pedal disillusion? (4) 15 If an act is altered, an enthusiast may be gained (7) 17 Amasses knowledge in the library (5, 2)
19 Satirical portrait of a Parliamentarian embraced by a bird! (7)
21 A devilish game (7) 23 'And in my heart some late — singing' (Henley) (4) 24 A first-night crowd? (4-6) 27 Miscreant is ill but all in vain! (7) 28 Italian parties popular in eighteenth century England (7) 29 Doomed like Napoleon? (8) 30 Entertainment that goes with a bang! (6) Down
1 'All heiresses are —' (Dryden) (9) 2 Poultry-yard whose laird was celebrated in. song? (7) 3 Explanatory discourse at the French exhibition (10) 5 Bestowed at, say, Vienna. Versailles, and Yalta (9) 6 Add and carry (4)
7 Dingle-dangles? (7) 8 Canning's Knife-Grinder (5)
9 'And dark as winter was the flow Of —' (Campbell) (4)
14 Alderman's a likely candidate for the hot spot! (10)
16 The Lady of the Lake (9) 18 Sulphurous devotee of A la Recherche dtt Temps Perdu? (9) 20 Fun at the Parthenon? (7) 22 Not up to bowling down here in Hampshire?
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23 'Dante, who — well because he hated' (Browning (5)
25 The device of Xanadu's pleasure-dome (4) 26 Munro detected in a Nagasaki hotel (4) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no 1299. Across. 1 Harvestmen 6 Palp 10 Slang II Lassitude 12 Dominance 13 Ernie 14 Betterment 16 Used 18 Kern 20 Star-monger 23 Rivet 24 Overblown 27 Mes.salina 28 Nomen 29 Node 30 Immodestly. Down. I Hosed 2 Readmit 3 Engineer 4 Talon 5 Esslierser 7 Alumnus 8 Pretender 9 Limey 14 Baker's man 15 Methodism
17 Sorbonne 19 Revised 21 Grommet 22 St,at 25 Erato 26 Nancy.
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