Crossword no. 1314
Across
1 What a base fellow to upset Fifi cat! (7) -5 Rats on account of bad qualities? (7)
9 Hats, light brown, for machine workers? (7) 10 A duck of a girl! (7) 11 Verger seen lurking among the yews? (10) 12 Just water, please (4) 13 Francois' here (3) 14 Scolded? It's official (11)
17 Her male counterpart, however, is the plc- maker! (11)
19 Addresi your dog with respect (3) 20 I'm at the front, says this terrible fellow (4) 22 Like non-mini skirts, only for the bookish? (10) 26 The original clue-girl? (7) 27 Unless a change is made, it's self-indulgent (7) 28 Ascetics in a delicatessen establishment! (7) 29 Where, it seems, Jack achieves results (7) Down 1 Where's the dough hidden? (5) 2 Decidedly not according to Cocker! (9)
3 '— vitae scelerisque purus' (Horace) (7)
4 Criminal accomplice who repels intruders (5) 5 There are five needs in a fortified position (9) 6 Flower that's inclined to wilt? (4) 7 Catches it soundly in the underwoodi (5) 8 To give up may be a matter of policy! (9) 13 Currently, I punish the student, it's very agitat- ing (9) 15 Tale of an indulgent type (9) 16 'Picture it—think of it, — man!' (Hood) (9) 18 Not that it was always pelting for a disguised banker! (7) 21 What's wrong with one girl? (5) 23 Saleroom price to disconcert (5) 24 'Whenas in --- my Julia goes' (Herrick) (5)
25 He makes love with plenty of noise in a Borodin opera (4)
Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no. 1313. Across: 1 Topknots 5 Bremen 9 Mantilla 10 Snares 12 Olivia 13 Pleasure 15 Ugly duckling 18 Chanticleers 23 Seascape 24 Averse 26 Oliver 27 Hovering 28 Sperm 29 Begetter. Down: 1 Tomtom 2 Pundit 3 Nailing 4 Toll 6 Ransack 7 Marsupia 8 Nest-eggs 11 Clouted 14 Syncope 16 Scissors 17 Palatine 19 Tuckets 20 Riviera 21 Aroint 22 Verger 25 Love.
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