7 JANUARY 1966, Page 11

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1204

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1. The premises of the polar club? (6. 6) 9. No, I tame an outflow (9) 10. Viva ale! But put it this way for a one-way passage (5)

And, when he next doth ride abroad, may I be there to see! (6)

12. Give homage to Bede? (8) 13. Delphic happenings? (6) 15. Deserting riflemen? No, just nomads (8)

18. Perhaps it takes some luck and a pan to find this stuff (3-5)

19. Edgar Allan in the age of cul- mination (6)

21. This is how a Nightingale should be! (8) Take a second pressing to ex- port again? (6) Miss Heath-(5) • The poet's arithmetical address to the desert, perhaps (9) "3.

A diversion at Battersea? (5-2-5) DOWN Give Dave the gen for how he got his own back (7) Must the water-snake do it too? (5) Like the ark before embarkation took place? (9)

This wag's a gossip, if you get the point (4)

Melted down, is this how Caesar's coinage should be treated? (8) A grand get-up for the bank (5) Spud-bashers on the beaten track? (7)

Entreats to make music 'agree- able (8)

Unscientific? (8) The tyrant of the printing- house? (9) Labour getk' up More tardily

here in'Scetlahd (8)' ' Get the. mail in at the back door (7) 5,

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20. Shown up in camera? (7) 22. Eastern tale turned up to raise the spirits (5)

24. One of those, who, like the Argentines, sleeps firmly from twelve to one (5) 25. He is lost in the dark without his nose (4) Solution next week

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