Crossword 1430
Across 1 No freedom for Ernie's missus! (10) 6 Baby-food? (4) 10 Scion of a noble house in the Sappers dis- covered in the river (5) 11 Old lighter (6-3) 12 Beats by transposing lightweights (8) 13 The gentlemen brought brandy for him (6) 15 Scottish spanner in a square-rigged vessel (4) 16 Eliza has evidently not come to stay with the little woman! (4)
17 `All's over then?' (5)
20 There's a good deal to this game (5) 21 What are the objectives of first-class writing? (4) 22 Tim, but not necessarily one to give you the pip! (4) 24 Everything's in train for getting fat (6) 26 How the committee's proceedings should be recorded (8) 29 That's rather a come-down! (9) 30 Cockney calling up a Scottish town? (5) 31 Pistols for two; coffee for one (4) 32 Coronet-beaters (4, 6) Down 1 You can wager .about a sapper that he'll be in a French hat (5) 2 His concern is with the Supplement to the dictionary! (9) 3 Tails down perforce (6) 4 Abroad with the Goc and getting the better of him (3-7) 5 The great tea-taker (4) 7 Pun about public transport (5) 8 Special occasion for pugs in winter (6, 3)
9 Behindhand and in the red; there's a connec- tion here (7)
14 Took up the cause of the chained Porn (II 15 Held up in bed? (9)
18 He wanders through river and dell, sit idiot (9)
19 Bound perhaps for the Moors? (7) 23 Not the best judge of an egg! (6)
25 'Oh for a - in some vast wildcrnem Some boundless contiguity of shade' (Cm- per) (5)
27 Timely food for the locust (5)
28 I'm coming up at the double, she says (4)
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Solution to Crossword 1429. Across: 1 Radica 5 Chances 9 Visor 10 Cluttered 11 Stupors Shackled 14 Tibia 15 Turnspits 18 DoubtleN 20 Linen 22 Fishwife 24 Scotch 26 Cranberri 27 Tired 28 Unearth 29 Saddles. Down: Revisited 2 Disturb 3 Cormorant 4 Luck . Couchgrass 6 Attic 7 Corelli 8 Sided 13 Steer forth 16 Solicited 17 Sunshades 19 Upstage- Natural 22 Fichu 23 Weber 25 Eyes.
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