SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1206

ACROSS 1. Like Baba going on an excur- sion? (6) 4. Old portraits of representative millionaires perhaps (8)

8. Plan that has no place for meals (8)

10. Sweet girl with geometrical

.1 potential (6)

12. A model question (5) 13. He's a proper Charley, Sir! (9) 14. Does nothing but slide (5) 16. He (she, more likely!) who can't wait until the finish (3-6)

17. Players by the Strand pretty green at the start (9)

19. They are needled by some jockeys (5)

21. Peevishness displayed by a favourite with a very superior blade (9)

22. She engages in a big fiddle! (5) 24. 10 has undergone a change of sex! (6) 25. 'Your glorious - launch again To match another foe!' (Campbell) (8) 26. Resigned to become a plotter (8) 27. Alternative to putting one's cards on the table is pretty stiff (6) DOWN 1. Terrace as old as Adam (7) 2. Bob's on the land (5) 3. Field judges (7)

5. Bowl along the hill at Good- wood (7)

6. How selectors go to work in parlour games (4, 5) 7.. 'Ambition should be made of - stuff(Shakespeare) (7)

9. Fetters for our German ances- tors? Useful in construction (5-5)

11. At white heat (10) 15. Book 3 might suit Clive (9)

17. The engineer's furthest objec- tive attained by a nitwit (7) 18. What's that noise from the college? (7) 19. 'An ampler ether, a - air' (Wordsworth) (7) 20. Such talk is a stumbling-block to faith (7) 23. Roundabout on the green? That's brave! (5)

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