Crossword 1419
Acro 1 Take entertaining steps being doubly con- fident (6) 4 Wintry breaking-point (4,4) 8 Mussorgsky exhibited them musically (8) 10 He's a grand leader down at Hastings! (6) 12 Give a player work out east in a class by itself (5) 13 A snifter of brandy: it's a devastating vint- age from the armoury (9) 14 'A chieftain to the Highlands bound Cries "Boatman, do not—"' (Campbell) (5) 16 There's no trouble with a three-point land- ing on one of these! (9)
17 Opera buffo for bass? (3,6)
19 Vessel that begins a word that 'teems with hidden meaning' (5) 21 The nature of Lassie? (9) 22 Those hard things added by Charley Bates (5) 24 Is a Royal Highness right in such a term of contemptuous respect? (6)
25 Tartar in a well-established cellar gives a buzz! (8) 26 Doing this is really the limit—and some! (8)
27 Puss takes on rustic caper way out east (6) Down: 1 Feline reporter has a tendency to plagiarise (4-3) , 2 Winning measures taken on the Turf (5) 3 Caul yet to turn out sharply in matters of accent (7) 5 The classic cover-up (7) 6 Madmen's infernos where brevity is all (9)
7 Gilbert's Cornish boarders! (7)
9 Midday at sea (5,5) 11 It branches out relatively speaking (6,4)
15 Two nearer turn to ash (5,4) 17 Wilderness fare (7) 18 'While the chaffinch sings on the orchard —' (Browning) (7)
19 A somewhat riparian plant, it might be sup- posed (7) 20 Gces any other way for a posy (7) 23 National qualification for entry to musical parlour (5) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword 1418. Across: 1 Comber 4 Surbiton 9 Larvae 10 Flavours 12 Opulence 13 Tribal 15 Shop 16 Aubergines 19 Miscellany
20 Grub 23 Kelpie 25 Perished 27 Surmised 28 Shrine 29 Pressing 30 Brides. Down: 1 Callous 2 Murmurous 3 Evades 5 Ugly 6 Bever- age 7 Thumb 8 Nestles 11 Scruple 14 Pennies 17 North wind 18 Periwigs 19 Makes up 21 Bidders 22 Wither 24 Large 26 Bean.
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