Crossword no. 1342
Across 1 Poles having an inner conflict, all due to the birds! (8) 5 Gliding fish (6) 9 Mrs Mopp with the china, delightful! (8) 10 Warren detective (6) 12 Garland, neatly arranged, from Eke (7)- 13 Film presentation of a ski tale (7) 14 Where to hear Calliope at play? (5-2-5) 17 The elusive William with a quiff (4, 1, 3, 4) 22 The fields of Paris (7) 23 In what state is the artist with the old priest? (7) 24 Baby-sitter's first-hand report is crystalline (6) 25 Miss Webber? (8) 26 Palm-oil perhaps (6) 27 Slang for the new boys! (8) Down
1 Harvest moon? Oddly enough, no (6) 2 The Dean's horse is stabled (6)
3 Compunction about one who was the soul of brevity (7) 4 Omar Khayyam's favourite purveyor? (4, 8) 6 Godfrey the bellman? (7) 7 The railway god (8) 8 The players are presumably equal, but dis- regard that (3, 5) 11 The voice of the prompter? (5, 7) 15 'Trip no further, pretty —' (Twelfth Night) (8) 16 Relation of Box to Cox? (8) 18 Do you go in, sir, for derivations? (7) 19 Water-jumps (7)
20 It's a case of in for a pound! (5)
21 The waters of Baghdad (6) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1341. Across: 1 Barn- stormers 9 Rebellion 10 Diver 11 Entice 12 Affiance 13 Sylvia 15 Glad rags 18 Pathetic 19 Assisi 21 Near miss 23 Lovage 26 Chill 27 Narrative 28 Press cutting. Down: 1 Barkers 2 Robot 3 Selective 4 Odin 5 Manifold 6 Radii 7 Barbers 8 Svengali 14 Lothario 16 Dissonant 17 Hissings 18 Panache 20 Iceberg 22 Miler 24 Alibi 25 Eric.
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