SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1169

I. How to rise above a telling-off (6) 4. A low haunt of united tricksters, perhaps? (8)

8. A water-colour, one might assume (8)

10. Sure am an entertainer! (6) 12. He's on the up and up (5)

13. Tidy flocks, perhaps? Their keepers, really (4-5)

14. The little gentlemen in black Velvet (5)

16. Give over-can do! (9) 17. The stuff of the wolf's 'disguise? (5-4) 19. Rocket motive force? (5) 21. A sign from the heavens that things are speeding up (5, 4) 22. There's iron in it one might so conclude (5)

24. Get the edge on the pismire in Ulster (6) 1.

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7, 25. How the schoolchildren are currently brought into line (8)

26. My dog Ena makes up for in- breeding (8)

27. The Passionate Pilgrim was such a one of youth (6)

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The beak takes the platform (7) Little talks with little birds (5) Steep slopes are remade in right spaces (7)

'They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The courts where. - gloried and drank deep' (FitzGerald) (7) It can be guaranteed (9) This is where the organist puts his foot down (7)

Mint a regal coin (10) Catch a plane to escape (4, 6) Might one not so describe the Babes in the Wood after the birds' kindly ministrations? (9)

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15. 17. The lean and slippered panta- loon is l'ound here. making room for stowage (7) 18. Stuff to wear when firing? (7j 19. End tips and give a wage in- stead (7) 20. Look out up there! (7) 23. Also where Samson smote them, anatomically speaking! (7) Solution next week

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