SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1097

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1 Umpire goes right to work to 27 break it up (7)

5 Some get to the top in the services (7) 9 Must when old Nick's at the wheel (5) 10 Such a learned style of archi- tecture (9) 11 'Like a stately ship of Tarsus, 1 bound for the isles of Javan or —' (Milton) (6) 2 12 How a bore made things hot (8) 14 O'Shanter at one-fifty gives tongue (5) 3 15 Marianne's involved with these 4

countrymen (9) 5 18 The army's such a saving! (9)

20 Is added to this kingdom for a '6 practical view (5) 7 22 What fishermen do might stimu- 8 late dance music (8) 13

24 R. Sikes' word of mouth (6) 16

Orders about a GI among Daniel's four-footed friends (9) Aim to view (5) Frets about Swinburne's last home (7) A jazz term? (7) DOWN Bad 'men make off with the gems (9) And — hallows with her tread The silent cities of the dead' (Byron) (7)

Land of Big God Nqong (9) Record binder? (4) I claim the plate down here—in Colorado, maybe (6-4) Get hold of a decoration (5) Tire a sapper in Ethiopia (7) A meeting in the heavens (5) Briny conceals failures so (10) The flower of undivided love (9)

28 29 17 He was good not to have passed by (9) 19 A racy one for the road, Puss? (4, 3) 21 Sloths upset about time being up are lethal (7) 22 It goes right to the heart ; plucks it out, in fact! (5) 23 They've departed, we hear, to get the gas (5) 25 Current journal (4)

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