SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1150

ACROSS

1. Poetic, in a Celtic sort of way (6) 4. A little witch, perhaps, busy in the market-place (8) 8. Taxidermist at work! (8) • 10. There's monkey-business when the scholar gets it gift (6) 1.1,• 'What is it'?' 'sked the Israelites (5) 13. It's terra-firma alt round (9) 14, This should cure the pig! (5) 16. Order to a rustler to review the situation (4, 5), He S doubtless .tt home in the hull-ring (5, 4) • 19. So the goat- goes in ofT target , 15) • 2.1. • Being so, the'rrsult of a straw, perhaps (9). ,

22. The Frenchind the English

make uP for a bit of Kent (5) 24. Father!. governors, it might 25. What the over-zealous banter may become? (8)

26. He's decrepit and not a little parasitic (8) 27. Concord gained (6) DOWN I. Champion of the .ring? (4. 3) 2. Monet's many-coloured cathe•- dral (5) 3. Blow up the bank, perhaps (7) 5. 'Thar she blows!' (7) • 6. Got smoothly 001 of a hunker (6, 3)

7. Where to shoot the pack on a man o' war? (3-4)

9. Surely an unnecessary noc- turnal device? Dangerous in- deed! (10) 11. Goosey dives? (5-5) 15. Art rises and being well acquainted, is crossed (9)

17. The sort of head to have turned up at Eton? (7) 18. Dark lie is unravelled in Ireland (7)

19. Useless doing it to the stable door when the horse is doing it too! (7) 20. Confuse Extra Sensory Per- ception with deed, baying exceeded the limit (7) 23. The nonsense dish (5)

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