SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1106

ACROSS 1 A bit of raillery? Very much on edge! (6) 4 Trained to discover cash in the ebbing river (8) 10 Fruity scene of royal siestas (7) 11 He has a devilish job to win! (7) 12 Lorelei? (10) 13 The wise turn in time (4) 15 Warnings that have been well taken by the 4 (7) 17 Dorian's involved in raids (7) 19 From that time on sappers have been pure! (7) 21 Painter of Tahiti (7) 23 American swots in lodgings (4) 24 Polish up the stars; they're specially wordy (10) 27 Not so rosy-looking, the doctor; island resort's the place (7) 28 Not that it makes the Bishop crooked! (7) 29 Neptune's torso in the reposit- ory? (3-5) 30 Union festivities (6)

DOWN

1 Take measures to get instruc- tions to pedallers? (4-5) 2 Guns are placed in his care (7) 3 Darling billets-doux? (5, 5) 5 Staying put perhaps to scrape off the whitewash (9) 6 'lie clasps the — with crooked hands' (Tennyson) (4) 7 A horse in the old Irish halls, figuratively speaking (7) 8 Graceful hands (5) 9 Conduct of Teddy with oomph (4) 14 'A wandering minstrel I'? (10) 16 Pickpockets discover a slovenly Boswell MS (5-4) 18 All that's left of the fish (9) 20 Lady in misty blue for Lord Glenvarloch? (7) 22 Consolidated (7) 23 'If hopes were —, fears may be liars' (Clough) (5)

25 Drink for the occasion of one's conge? (4)

26 There's support in a well- starched collar (4) Solution next week

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