SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1100
ACROSS 1 What a relief for the diver! (13) 2 9 A grade of infant? (9) 10 'With a — of winds and many rivers' (Swinburne) (5) 11 From Rose to Jack (5) 12 Hard at prayer? No doubt their possessors find them so! (9) 13 Fondles After having chided (7) 15 Implying there's no scat for this stop-gap (5-2) 17 Uncle Sam's Mexican is an oily fellow (7) 19 Breck follows Fells to get a Spaniard (7) 21 Culpeper's char? (6, 3) 23 This sort of boom is almost super (5) 24 They're a fly lot (5)
25 Depressed, Edward Lear chides his cat for being behind the clock (9)
26 He made his last stand on the 18 Little Big Horn (7, 6) DOWN Shocking way the chosen travelled (9) lie is much prized in Holly- wood (5)
Pride out of order about rising KC is punctured (7) Finish short? Not a bit of it! (7) Face-lift for a sphinx? (4-5) No, no, I get Alliarn cepa (5) A character without age is still quite someone (6) A ship is about able to do what the lookout does (5)
Pluto consumed about equality becomes unequal (9) Make a sketchy showing (9) Command to a follower or occa- sionally a distinguished guest?
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An aria shout fat? That takes the biscuit! (7) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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16 19 Stylish, as is I_CC in a way (7) 20 North, a plot seems pearly (5) 22 The girl to have cider with, we
read (5) • 23 Not that they go slow when fired (5)
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