SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1218

ACROSS I. Old fellows who help to soften the blow (7) 5. Water-jumps? (7) 9. Old Moor (7) 10. Artist and friend, look. Where? In Daly (7) 11. Cooks take umbrage-with a chopper? (3, 2, 5) 12. 'The books of the -, and the books of all time' (Ruskin) (4) 13. Gunners or Academicians (3) 14. Talented and active little ortho- grapher goes to the party (8-3) 17. Port of origin of Arthur's funeral barge perhaps? (11) 19. 'Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew, Old the shepherd goes' (De la Mare) (3) 20. Need to change for the garden (4) 22. The Sofa's convenient predeces- sor. according to Cowper (5-5) 26. Gone and left Will (7)

27. Digger might scoff about a Pussyfoot (7)

28. Home of a Dandie little Bor- derer (7) 29. A bobbish lot in the belfry (7) DOWN 1. Is in a cab coming up, that's important (5) 2. Start fire in a way that couldn't be better (5-4) 3. 'And the bare Painful - of fitful life?' (Bridges) (7) 4. Not as good as in Rome? Really! (5) 5. He's lost his mates (9) 6. Knocks the artist getting the last word (4) 7. The game amounts to nothing, but nothing (5)

8. A good man at our head as the mrdeners might have said here?

13. Searched again when asked (9) 15. Extremely bright (9) 16. Veto Pussy here in India? (9) 18. Lily gets a sunburn in Mexico (7) 21. Eating-place abroad (5) 23. Haliotis (5) 24. Toothy roues (5)

25. Game for an Egyptian king? (4)

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