SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1138

ACROSS

1. A fish at home in the Amazon, no doubt! (6)

4. It is about time! (8) • 8. Ten years and more is degener- ate (8)

10. Good luck to those in favour of the sedentary life! (6)

12, It goes upstairs (5) 13. A change of ancestor? (9) 14. Inquisitive, like Cyrano (5) 16. 'Books arc not seldom - and spells (Cowper) (9)

17, A different way of being learned (9) 19. A hundred quit, what a split (5)

21. The people who rarely smile, said Rupert Brooke (9) 22, Cressida's uncle misses the country and is a beast (5) .

24. A ravishing old king (6)

25. Where one might expect to find revolutionary anglers (4-4)

26. Like a foot like a finger (8)

27. 'That capability and god-like reason . lo lust in us (Hamlet) (6) - DOWN

1. This dog is metal too (7)

-2. Water-fowl? No, not really (5) 3. Old and wincy, perhaps (7) 5. Shows of force (7)

6. Send down to the country (9)

7. 1-Tow -a Barbarian prepares to become civilised? (7) 9. Are the ornithologists in the dark about their habits? (5-5) 11. The midnight rider of Seventy- live (4, 0) 15, Having a tendency to 'gang aft agley' perhaps? (9)

17. Where the chaffinch sings in England---now! (7)

18. How. Cobbett rode? (7)

19. Give Stanley a place in the first eleven, and wind up with a machine (7) 20. Followed the line (7) 23. They are between two springs (5) Solution next week

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