Crossword no.1291
Across I Doubly fortified? (6) 4 Bestow a tasty thigh in a Lincolnshire junction (8) • 8 Muddy old Parisian (8) 10 How to get out of a bottle-neck? (6) 12 Cat from the Land of Oz (5) 13 Melting-pots (9) 14 There's no limit to what advertisers will take! (5) 16 Aylesbury juveniles (9) 17 Both Corydon and Thyrsis, for example (9) 19 Change of roles for the defeated. (5) 21 Numbers going back for detonations (5, 4) 22 A little bit of music (5)
24 Make too much of a song about a large cravat? (6) 25 Letter on the up and up-(8)
26 'While the vulture of - Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders' (Shakespeare) (8) 27 The wise old girl of Waterloo Place (6) Down 1 Puffers of interest to Flute (7) 2 No pismire can have such a Chekhovian name (5) 3 Immoderately marginal? (7) 5 A matey flight? (7) 6 Imposition that calls forth an expression of sympathy (4, 5)
7 Besets. somewhat in the manner of the gentle- man in black velvet (7) 9 Status of Lord Dumbello's father-in-law (9) 11 Treacherous arenas like Daytona? (10) 15 Dressed to kill? (9) 17 Charon's turn for security measures (7)
18 One can hardly do this from 22, however! (7) 19 Take a licking (7) 20 Pangs of conscience concerning the code (7) 23 Not quite a pushover! (5) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no. 1290. Across. 1 Bipeds 4 Factotum 9 Surrey 10 Man-eater 12 Magician 13 Delphi 15 Nore 16 Iron glance 19 Mace-bearer 20 Ages 23 Robing 25 Defeated 27 Big noise 28 Agitate 29 Untested 30 Verses. Down. 1 Bushmen 2 Paregoric 3 Drelch 5 Alas 6 The Bells 7 Tot up 8 Mortice 11 Marryat 14 Sneezes 17 Nightcaps 18 Abandons 19 Marabou 21 Sadness 22 League 24 Bigot 26 Isle.
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