Crossword no.1347
Across
1 Instrument with nautical breadth discovered in the wood (8) 5 Discreet addition to the crown (6)
9 About that- ambassador, send him down a division (8)
10 Wonderland cook? (6) 12 He calls around to gloss things over (7) 13 Mercenary rough-stuff (7) 14 One figure that's edgily equal to another (12) 17 Fatally determined (12) 22 Relief-work (7) 23 Clearly they are to drink (7)
24 There's no come-back on this traffic sign (3-3)
25 Immortalise? (8) .
26 Stand-in for a 'Mother and Child'? (6) 27 'The — came down like the wolf on the fold' (Byron) (8) Down 1 Equestrian gunners break ranks when a donkey joins them just to annoy (6) 2 Just the bird for keeping down the grass? (6)
3 Inverted mouthpiece on unsteady legs starts in amaze (7)
4 I into captain transformed, that's forward-look-. , ing (12)
6 Nothing classical I can discover in this pre-, tender (7)
7 Pale tail in disguise (8) 8 Tower Hamlet? (8) 11 'Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder Pitched between Heaven and --' (Francis Thompson) (7, 5) 15 Urge promises of payment—they are forged (8) 16 Diabolically twisted in wild career (8) 18 French pupil gets at a way to promote (7) 19 Char-woman gets promoted (3-4) 20 A couple of bright lads! (6) 21 Sharp north for literary papers (6) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1346. Across: 1 Water wagtail 9 Novelties 10 Onion 11 Obsign 12 Pala- tine 13 Splits 15 Congreve 18 Jurassic 19 Flashy 21 Spion Kop 23 Meadow 26 Idiom 27 Stavanger 28 In fine fettle. Down: 1 Winnows 2 Toves 3 Relegates 4 Axis 5 Testator 6 Isola 7 Sincere 8 Diviners 14 Larrikin 16 Golden Age 17 Sikorski 18 Justice 20 Yew-tree 22 Nomen 24 Digit 25 Pace.
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