SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1148

ACROSS 28.

1. Slip ashore here? (7) 29.

5. Stories get about concerning outings (7) 9. Rising rates show up an un- thankful fellow (7) I.

10. That shocking princess! (7) 2.

11. Orange-boats? (10) 12. Mr. Harris's little brother (4) 13. Cameraman, follow that piper! (3) 14. Cupid's visual aid? (11) 17. Not the kind of view through rose-coloured spectacles (II) 7.

19. Back new wine in combination (3) 20. The hunted one becomes an in- former through initial loss (4) 22. The same old treatment (10) 26. All on a November's day (7) 27. Brush with fury (7) 16. The well-rounded art (7) Obsolete, hut employed in the underworld! (7) DOWN Coffee with spirit! (5) Vegetables where they put the lions on? (9) I cram a missing language (7) The gunboat set it at nought (5) Herb of the lancers (9) A whiff of the Athens of the North (4) Dispose of in a classically canine way (5) An old salt's lad? (3-6) The right state for a haggis to he in (6, 3) How Ozymandias might be said to have survived? (9) They are heedless of orders (9) 3.

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15. 18. Points of law for heads (7) 21. A kingly measure (5) 23. Bury as Pepys might have done (5) 24. Give in the product (5) 25. The pitch of an awkward note (4) Solution next week

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