27. The universal saving of the quack and his patient!
(7)
29. Because the sapper is genuine (7) 30. The shape of' shining eyes, per- haps? (8) 31. Expandable containers (6) DOWN I. Might it produce a rabbit in the field? (3-5) 2. Art store men protest (II) 3. Flowergirl who should not be painted (4) 5. He could be said to contrive things mechanically (8) 6. Anything on such a scale is heavenly! (10) 7. Found around the border (3) 8. That's the kind of person Hamlet was (6)' 9. Juvenal connects it with the circus (5) 14. Instruments that get taken up on the drums (3-8)
18. One who carries a first refusal to its limits (8)
19. They can be relied upon to take care of the goods (8) 22. Picturesque getaways (6) 23. 'Thou art a soul in -; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire' (Shakespeare) (5)
26. What to begin with when taking a mile (4)
28. How the poetess gets back even and is born (3 Solution next week
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 1163
ACROSS.-I Answer. 4 True love. 9 Adonis. 10 Ringdove. /2 Doggerel. 13 Spirit. 15 Neon. 16 Starmonger. 19 lee. breaker. 20 Leaf. 21 Income. 25 El Dorado. 27 Identity.. 28 Ursine. 29 Literary. 30 Sherry.
DOWN.-1 Abandon, 2 Snow/tome, 3 Exiled. 5 Rain. 6 Eggspoon. 7 Odour, 8 Elector. 11 Gentian. 14 Orderly, 17 Grenadier, 18 Prompter, 19 Initial 21 Flowery, 22 Fourth. 24 'Crest. 26 Stir. • He cannot understand the cheerful lie we tell each other when we say 'money- isn't everything.' For him, everything is money and blazoned with a neon price tag. Almost 'nobody else, however they delude themselves as consumer-experts and .comparison-shoppers, can ever really understand how a pile of identical, printed notes is trans- lated into a bewildering variety of goods and services and debts. It is one of the few really mystical mysteries of life how people who earn the same amount as you do nevertheless seem always to be able to afford bigger houses or longer cars or more suits or more exotic holi- days. They can't all have rich wives or generous trustees.
The man with the purse knows and will be only too happy to explain to you what pathetic luxuries you should give up tomorrow to become solvent. It cannot be accidental that the first meaning of 'budget' in the OED, around 1425, Was 'a pouch, bag or wallet, usually of leather.'
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