CROSSWORD No. 1260
ACROSS Good chap, smelling strongly but quite unper- turbed (6) 4 Darkness of Dickens first job? (8) 9 On your knees I (6)
so A note about the baby-sitter (8) 12 Do Orbilius and his kind go off at these? (8)
13 For a cold in the head? (6) 15 Help an immured heroine (4) 16 Staple of the South Sea Island bakeries? (so)
19 Literary liquorice perhaps (so) 20 A mother—for him? (4)
22 A classy dish ! (6) 25 Alter Vic to appear upright (8) 27 'Hail horrors, Hail — world' (Milton) (8) 28 A very possessive Forsyte (6) 29 Capital for the farmer's wife? (4-4) 3o Lovely girls go fiftf-fifty among busy colonists (6) DOWN Where it should all add up to a rising art (7)
2 Water 30'S? (9)
3 So Oberon described his moonlight encounter with Titania (3-3)
ti'I will drink life to the —' (Tennyson) (4) Mean fellows bide Fifi's cat (1) 7 Try on this river for work (5) Constance fits the jewel to a T (7)
it 'The earth seems to me a — promontory,' Hamlet lamented (7)
14 Swooned, being all eager to approach Edward k71 .
17 Not that it means fractions for football teams ! (9) 18 Wayward, the poet's mode of expression (8) 19 A Tale of Flodden Field (7)
21 Annoys underground worker on the streets (7)
22 'I — with none' (Landor) (6) 24 Cosy wear for butterfingers? (5) 26 Rather a loud hairdo ! (4) Solution next week
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