SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1242
ACROSS 1. Rose bends over the lute with a determined air (8) 5. Fruits of wrath (6) 9. What very fine metalwork! (8) 10. Definitely Omar Khayyam's night- ingale 'that in the branches sang' (6) 12. Tea-set gets put in order (6) 13. A claimant to an aromatic herb (8) 15. Protection for top Met-men? (12) 18. Learn to know the valley by its perfume (12) 23. Eponym for 7(8) 24. Hope of the steeplejacks? (6) 26. By which name Elizabeth I might appear to have classical connections? (6) 27. Jack got to work, rather heavily (8) 28. Sign or become a continental (6)
29. Kind of tip-up seat, perhaps? (8)
DOWN 1. Mr. Reeve, was it, who trumped? (6) 2. Gives away secrets of the acrobats (6) 3. He gets what's left (7) 4. The actor in another part of the forest? (4) 6. Small-talk at the Garden? (7)
7. Roman tax-collector has a more cheerful incarnation here! (8)
8. 'Society is all but rude. To this delicious -' (Marvell) (8) 11 Rhythm of the younger set? (7) 14. Exercise in the prison yard, perhaps? (7)
16. A cub is so bent on getting a blue flower (8)
17. must be so (8) 19. Alfredgoes on so when in Spain (7) 20. Come one, Steve, dinner's here! (7) 21. The answer is not quite a lemon (6) 22. Conqueror's system of landing? (6) 25. 'And in the vats of -, This year, the must shall foam' (Macaulay) (4) Solution next week
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