Crossword 1387
Across
1 Honour was the first love of the poetic colonel (8)
5 Vine-spoiler? (6) 9 Sport in the round? (4-4) 10 Seedy, but visible, improvements (6) 12 Sunrise delineated by right (5) 13 Leaves (9) 14 Chicken-hearted, no doubt (12) 18 Epithet for Cole and Charles (5, 7) 21 The Lady of Coleridge's Love (9) 23 Being plural and an inversion leads to the old sand-pit (5) 24 Late in one way of looking at a settlement (6) 25 'Most friendship is —, most loving mere folly' (As You Like Ii) (8) 26 This shoot is really green (6) 27 Having star-quality (8) Down 1 Behold! Round the same place, the drive of desire (6) 2 A fiery fellow, by Jupiter! (6) 3 Like a Quixotic inscription (9) 4 One of those NAAFI girls, perhaps? (4-8) 6 It's God down to the last letter (5) 7 The players who might get rusty? That's hard! (4-4)
8 '0! that a man might know The end of this day's —, ere it come' (Julius Caesar) (8)
11 Royal broom-carriers? (12) 15 Elgar-country (9) 16 Guess northern manuscript seems to be a thing of affectation (8) 17 Credit in feet? That's simply crazy (8) 19 Sea in love? That's woolly nonsense (6) 20 'I should have been a pair of — claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas' (T. S. Eliot) (6) 22 I love that mixed-up s uff! (5) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1386. Across: 1 Argument 5 Fetish 9 Treasure 10 Carpel 12 Runner 13 Buttered 15 Symbolically 18 Proportional 23 Restored 24 Genial 26 Ocelet 27 Palatine 28 Surest 29 Leverets. Down: I Alters 2 Greens 3 Mystery 4 Nore 6 Elastic 7 Imperils 8 Holidays 11 Bul- lion 14 Abetted 16 Sparrows 17 Forswear 19 Odorous 20 Average 21 Divide 22 Sleeps 25 Pale.
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