CROSSWORD No. 1244
ACROSS I. Dinner's just about over (6) 4. What's Rose doing to the roses? (8) to. Concern of `with-it' lexicographers (7) s. Phrases that take heavenly shape (7)
12. Unbiased hle Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all? (4-6)
13. Horse-play? (4) 15. The lino needs changing for stone (7) 17. It's kissing time with a divine at the bardic festival (7) 19. The cat is no longer by the throne, leaving the pavilion (7)
21. Colloquial rendering of Exit, pursued by a bear? (4, 3) 23. 'And every common — afire with God' ST. B. Browning (4)
24. The Voice of the Serpent? (to)
27. A female tree? (7) z8. Swan leads the Muses in a mountain chain (7) 29. Poet of the Ninth (8) 3o. You can say that again ! (6)
DOWN 1. With which to catch a receiver of stolen jewellery? (4-5) 2. Clause inserted on behalf of Violet so it appears (7) 3. Mother Carey's chickens (5-5) 5. He gets quite carried away (9) 6. First-class by railway and not at all stuffy (4) 7. One legislator gets instruction by request (7) 8. Got casually about America with enjoyment (5) 9. Fifty over there for a herald (4) 14. A quick hard look from a geologist? (4-6) 16. Occiput, for example? (9), 18. It's not the same for a piper upset in the depression (9) zo. Messy appearance of an intoxicating drug (7) 22. There's a stone enclosed in an olive naturally (7) 23. Iconoclastic goings-on? (5) 25. Little rascals detected in a palimpsest (4) 26. Lido's image (4) Solution next week
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