Crossword no. 1273
Across
I To do which, Polonius recommended steel hoops (7)
5 A blot in Apollo's escutcheon exploited by travel agents? (3-4) 9 Get out while it is still day (5) 10 Plumed device for the best writing-paper? (4-5)
11 Liquor all gone? Not quite! (61t
12 Turned one's attention from dead greenstuff? (8) 14 Children's publication? (5) 15 For which a voluntary is played, no doubt (9) 18 Off the cuff (9) 20 Fairy-tale teller and man of law (5) 22 'Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away (Shakespeare) (8) 24 For luxury living? (6) 26 Neuters if reassembled will associate well! (9) 27 Repeat monotonously a bit of a coarse yarn (5) 28 Brings down to earth (7) 29 Guides in the rain (7) Down
1 Earth has brown coal below, liable to explode (9)
2 Prayer-time for Millet (7) 3 It's up to Merle to produce driving force (9) 4 Units among the works of Henri Bergson (4) 5 Made compact (10)
6 Have you met my daughter, Pearl? as she might say (5) 7 Quick, to the north! Leave the pans! (7)
8 Carried in the direction of Edward (5) 13 Single story compositions? (10)
16 The tragic jester (9)
17 Half Aries is the make-up of the Assyrian queen (9) 19 A bit in the upturned hat for a feline heroine (7) 21 The opposite of poetry? (7) 22 Terrifying when in flight (5) 23 Sown by an enemy (5)
25 Tidings from the four corners of the earth (4)
Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no, 1272. Across. 1 Bulldog 5 Whippet 9 Orville 10 Rostrum 11 Hunstanton 12 Dyer 13 Lae 14 Denigrators 17 Unplastered 19 Pas 20 Sulk 22 Ecclesiast 26 Amazons 27 Flagons 28 Nettles 29 Strides. Down. 1 Broth 2 Loving-cup 3 Dilated 4 Green S Warmonger 6 lost 7 Perky 8 Tamarisks 13 Louis Wain 15 Note-cases 17 Omphalold 18 Despair 21 Least 23 Lulls 24 Tasks 25 Cowl
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