SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1118

ACROSS

1. The foxy old soldiers (8)

5. Art is back after man makes an incantation (6)

9. 133d lance set right (8)

10. Miss and Latin wrongly put (6)

12. True Frenchman's title for the kingdom (5) 13. Entice Reg to become active (9) 14. 'Therefore all progress depends on the man' (Shaw) (12)

18. Tidbits for clutching at? (6,6) 21. Undertones are unlikely to be

• SO (9)

23. No ale? A singular state of II Ira rs! (5) 24. I.ittle Ireland almost full is enraged (6) -

25. A baser version of those things that arc got down to (3-4) 26. Whither brinkmanship practised on the pavement might lead? (6) 27. Here's not a single gun (8)

DOWN 1. A robe returns in the navy and is brought to life again (6) 2. Watery letters (6)

3. 'With gold and jewels cover ey'ry part And hide with - their want of art' (Pope) (9) 4. Kipling's salty tales (3, 5, 4)

6. Copying, like some inhabitants of Gibraltar (5)

7. Try out the underground in the laboratory (4-4)

8. So an apprentice makes a piece and a penny (8)

11. The mariner's yardstick ashore (8,4)

15. An embarrassing destination for a collier (9)

16. Pushing along on twp wheels (8)

17. Ten all round me up at the building (8)

19. Doubtless he prefers to look at a queen! (6)

20. An inferior sort of landlord, one might almost say (6) 22. Put up here (5) Solution next week

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