SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1140

ACROSS 1. Fruits of victory, 1944 (10) 6. Care about the size of the city? (4) 10. Greenwich Mean Time and a little gold in the compass (5) 11. Relative awaiting settlement (9)

12. it certainly is not free for the tenant (9)

13. Father of Rome (5)

14. Offerings of the chestnut man (3, 7) 16. 'What a row,' exclaims the god (4)

18. How green is the pine (4) 20. A sinister style (4-6) 23. A two-footer (5)

24. 1 send rest to make up for ex- haustion (9)

27. Macadam's opera (9) 28. Zeus gave her a stony look (5) 29. What the good soldier tries not to get out of (4) 30. Modern Stan does the decora- tions (10)

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19. DOWN Glum love for a big shot (5) A plain City street (7) 'Hesperus - thy light, Goddess, excellently bright' (Jonson) (8) Where to hear the sound of the waves (5) Make shift? Yes, makeshift (9) How a row is made (7) Having a seat in the gods, per- haps (9) Pick off the bird (5) Avian cooks? (4-5) The engineer came in, making a second appearance (2-7) ' Praise is half dope (8) 'But when in thee time's furrows I behold,

Then look I death my days should -' (Shakespeare) (7)

21. Behave like a perennial in autumn (3, 4)

22. 'Thrice did she sink-' (Spenser) (5)

25. A means of getting up for an early one (5) 26. A knight deep at Aberdour (5) Solution next week

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