SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1221

ACROSS 26.

1. Tailor's perks to be found at the greengrocer (7)

5. Watch it! as Shakespeare said (7) 9. The last of twenty-six missing from the pirate hideout leads to mortification (7) 10. With twenty it makes fool's gold (7)

11. It is a royal rule (10)

12. Loose or nothing (4) 13. What nonsense it is to go back over the hill (3) 14. To reach it, keep right on! (11) 17. With which the chemist once got his bob-a-job? (11) 19. 'The still. - music of 7.

humanity' (Wordsworth) (3) 8.

20. Cromwell had it on his side (4) 22. They must be made for prodigal Banal (10) 13. DOWN Leap about like a nanny in a pickle? (5) Caught out after dark? (9) Such is the early bird's due (7) Do a put-up job (5) The report that Guy Fawkes never heard (9) Run through at Kensington? (4) The star of the flower-show (5) Record the eagle with short

female offspring, or so it is made out (9) The rest to be carried (9)

Royal marine crest in France? 15.

(7) 16. An order at Lord's (7) The cold-blooded creeper (7) 18. Pieces for the leather boys? (7) 21. Apparently it is the same (9) Six-legged, among other defini- tive things (9) Laconic (7)

This is the limit below-decks (5) The round trip is heavenly! (5) Solon was one of the Seven (5) A hit for the Siamese (4)

Solution next week 23.

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