SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1196

ACROSS 1.Alceste comes to England (I3)

9. Vying with the thistle, they take their toll of budding pianists (9)

10. Set at nought (5) 11. How she is styled (5) 12. Like that forgotten library-book (9) 13. Satisfied? In this state you ought to be! (7)

IS. Nantes was so (7)

17. There's ignoble strife in such a crowd (7) 19. Such a one is beautiful in song (7) 21. How arc Bertha's ballistic off- spring going? (5, 4)

23. 'H rse' (As You Like It) (5) e uses his - like a stalk- ing-ho

24. Etched (5) 25. Created by the third form? (9) 26. Al especially in the cardiac department (4, 3, 6)

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17. 18. DOWN

The dove's-eye-view of the world? (9)

The Bible in negative, for collectors (5) Carriage to the docks? (7) Traditional enclosure for the Englishman? (7) 'Adieu! Adieu! thy - anthem fades' (Keats) (9) Yes, signor, it's fresh, but tough!

Sublimely chemical equipment

Were they thrown by Mr. B. Wells? Perhaps his adversaries sometimes thought so 1 (5)

ry basis of Sartre's The necessary (9)

Deadline of the old man with the scythe (4, 5) et

An attractive bit of metal (6) Does he ever roach 13? (7) 19.Just about curfew-time (7)

20. Attacked by Daleks? (5) 22. The last word from Fleet Street (5) 23. Surely her holiday is the time for botanists to come away? (5) Solution next week

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