SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1154

ACROSS I. A geometrical affair! (10) 6. Back at lower case for powder (4) 10. Bad man with beaStly inten- tions (5) 11. C.acsarian operation (6, 3) 12. Thrilling sound of the bells (8) 13. The sportsman takes it up, and it's his (6) 15. The river of the old bridge (4) 16. Like the top toxophilite? (4) 17, 'Fake note about the twisted constrictor, he's an eastern potentate (5) 20. Tess gets right inside the lock (5)

21. Outsize teapots for the Greeks, perhaps (4) 22. The enchanted dynasty? (4)

24. Keats was the son of one (6) 26. 'To the last - of recorded time' (Shakespeare) (8) 29. A Jolly takes had in the middle of a party? Just so! (9) 30. Poetically he's on the thorn when morning's at seven (5) 31. Get soundly paid for an eagle (4) 32. Attacks with balls (10)

DOWN

1, Quiet, when puss retreats from it (5)

2. A hang-over, literally! (9)

3. flow to enjoy a feather-bed, naturally (6)

4. Like Silas, and that's putting it mildly! (10) 5. How boring they are, these in- struments (4) 7. A bird for the high water (5) 8. The grip of an intriguing poli- tician (6-3) 9. Listing in the lists (7) 14. A dingy place to live in, but no doubt full of sea airs (6, 4) 15. it measures up to the stars (9)

18. The husband who failed to gel ahead, so to speak, in the last instance (9)

19. One goes up rather grandly (7) 23. The Miller's carpenter's wife (6) 25. The over-generous Athenian (5) 27. Where imtnigrants were isolated (5)

28. Turn pale about a request for help (4) Solution next week

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