SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1098

ACROSS 1 Apparatus, it seems, though somewhat dull has a sweet tone (6) 4 Give fodder to the birds, in neat stacks (8) 8 One of a secret brotherhood gets a lecture in Saskatchewan (5, 3)

10 It has little weight with Monsieur (6)

12 'For then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party —' 1 (Shakespeare) (5) • 13 Doctor chaps come to us with an air of great consequence (9) 14 Those warts have come back! What do I care? (5) 16 Card of bachelor fashion (9) 17 Not that this rake is the bookish type (9)

19 Kindly fieldsman in Bloomsbury (5) 21 Unlikely, however, that opera- lives here found their lives zest- ful (4-Si

DOWN They are depressed but cheeky (7)

Robs many going round the inner circle (5) The Cockney's egg-head? (3-4) Solid fuel coming round up north in a circle (7)

Scarf for a dummy? (9)

Male relative who makes good progress (7)

They concede they may come in (10) Misuse Anna as a writer? (10) 2 3 5 6 9 11 22 Back in fashion, this radioactive element (5) 24 Pretty fruity when the artist and I do wrong (6) 25 Teaching for conductors? (8) 26 'Where harmless fish — silence keep' (Donne) (8) 27 Beastly guides (6)

15 'A little — now and then is a good thing,' wrote Jefferson (9)

17 Clean-up after the census (7) 18 Left-ovens? That's mean, sir, in a way (7) 19 Steadfast girl dispatched this agreement (7)

20 Contrives to give a chap time (7)

23 A pair go east to twist (5) Solution next week

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