Crossword 1420
Across 1 Is the century concerned with matters of principle? (6) 4 Shattered by low degree? (8) 9 Looking closely might seem to be skin-deep (6) 10 The dirty British way of travelling? (8) 12 'And many a burglar I've — To his friends and his relations' (Gilbert) (8) 13 Avian companion of Cockney dalliance (6) 15 Let it stand as proof (4) 16 Play music (10) 19 Re-occupy? Think it over! (10) 20 Retreat along the old walls, Lily (4) 23 His seven is absolute (6) 25 Routes where the breathalyser should be stringently applied? (8) 27 Cutters for goose-grass (8) 28 Flat out, grammatically speaking (6)
29 Horseplay in time when clothes are worn (8)
30 Lunatic stages? (6) Down
I 'My vegetable love should grow Vaster than —, and more slow' (Marvell) (7)
2 Tough-skinned, these Baptists! (4-5) 3 Doctor with no company is likely to get scavenging bird (6) 5 Master Bear gets up a ring for play (4) 6 Underwear provides some bits of evidence (8) 7 Golden days, in one instance (5) 8 Fingertip computing (7) 11 That dogged saint! (7) 14 Duck to play the donkey-game (7) 17 Sea legs? Quite the reverse! Nevertheless they are amphibious (9) 18 Troubled old boy slaves and sets free (8) 19 Answered with reason (7) 21 Assembles in a somewhat imperative way (7) 22 Lunch ought to provide for the crow (6) 24 The perilous place at the Round Table (5) 26 'The leafless trees and every icy— Tinkled like iron' (Wordsworth) (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1419. Across: 1 Can
4 Cold snap 8 Pictures 10 Master 12 Caste 13 Grapeshot 14 Tarry 16 Tricycles 17 Lo" comedy 19 Basin 21 Canicular 22 Wails 24 Sirrah 25 Beeswing 26 Speeding 27 Cathay Down: 1 Copy-cat 2 Necks 3 Acutely 5 DratvrY 6 Nutshells 7 Pirates 9 Eight bells 11 Family tree 15 Rowan tree 17 Locusts 18 Orchard 19 Banksia 20 Nosegay 23 Irish.
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