SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1222

ACROSS I. Painter taken bad in the Under- ground (6) 4. Spanish adherents provide litera- ture for the motorist (8) 8. All the perfumes of 10 couldn't do this for a little hand! (8)

lO. See 8 (6)

12. Stately princess, greeting! (5) 13. Did for two, this timber (9)

14. His breakfast food was a matter

of speculation to Browning (5) 16. To (6 3) be square, poodle-fakert 17. Well and truly belted in a general way he was (3, 6) 19. Whitens the fence perhaps (5) 21. A drink for the workshy down under (9) 22. Young footman in a striped coat (5) 24. 'Illuminated with the —'s own candles' (Thackeray) (6) •

25 cleopatra's baby seems annoyed in a breathy way (8)

26. Initial change would make a rider of this viking (8) 27. Not that cook needs expertise to produce WO)

DOWN

1. To have such fun meant a great

relief (7) • ;•-r,

2. She's mine, the Italian might claim, of this bloodsucker (5) 3. To write distinctly should absorb one's attention (7) 5. Bad girl from a good district in Paris? (7) 6. Moral snub might be a matter of degree (9) 7. 'With deep affection, And recol- lection,' Father Prout often thought of these bells (7) 9. Sozzled nictitation is a singular parlour game (10)

11. Cardiac supesiors of coronets, according topne Laureate (4, 6)

15. Where one ttuld make a pile if one cut down on the church (9) 17. Austin's liable to keep going (7) 18. Nymph of the mountains was pre-Hood (7) 19. Dad wins cards from an Irish- man (7) 20. Theatrical display of knives? (71 23. 'All-a rm'd I ride, whate'er betide. Until I find the holy —' (Tennyson) (5) Solution next week

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