Crossword no. 1326
Across 1 Brilliant swimmer? (8) 5 Alf all twisted round in ribbon (6) 9 A capital Englishman (8) 10 Beribboned pole-cat? (6) 12 Tasteful musical ornament? (6) 13 Fancy piece! (8) 15 This agricultural measure can't leave much in hand for its owner! (12) 18 A race of field-workers (12) 23 Steer left in finding an old green kingdom (8) 24 One must try hard in order to make one (6) Solution to Crossword no. 1325. Across: 1 Covent Garden 9 About turn 10 Chief 11 Thalia 13 Obso- lete 13 Norris 15 Puritans 18 Mutinous 19 Beaker 21 Calamity 23 Flashy 26 Dingo 27 Puissance 28 Seven Sisters. Down: 1 Chasten 2 Viola 3 Nutrition 4 Grub 5 Runabout 6 Echo 7 Buffers 8 Fire- back 14 Rattling 16 Idealists 17 Multiple 18 Macadam 20 Rhymers 22 Moose 24 Since 25 Wits. 26 Colourful look-out for flowers? (6) 27 Rounders, for example (4, 4) 28 Times of darkness (6) 29 These pieces are for checking (5-3) Down 1 Earnings which should be salted away? (6) 2 Poet of the white cliffs (6) 3 Junk ahoy! (7) 4 'Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light — from the feathered grass (Keats) (4) 6 Description of a fertile she-cat? No, it's horti- cultural (7) 7 Proper state for a peer at the Admiralty. perhaps? (8) 8 Oblomovitis? (8) 11 'And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the —' (Wordsworth) (7) 14 Erroneous flower (7) 16 Gareth's first position at court (8) 17 Copper-covering? (8)
19 Mistrust trade union in a mix-up with visual aids (7)
20 Self far back getting the lotteries (7) 21 City countrymen and friends? (6)
22 How, or where, to bear witness to the ashes? (7)
25 A pound of spuds? (4) Solution next week
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