Crossword no.1318
Across 1 Beckett's waiters (6) 4 Ease cad quietly into an adventure (8) 10 This must be up everyone's street (7) 11 Does she get the palm for music? (7) 12 Where to find a fair mermaid playing? (5-5) 13 'The dullard's — of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end' (Beerbohm) (4) 15 Does this magician also hold the key to peace? (7) 17 He even made the Furies weep (7) 19 Longed for a- little donkey after a twelve- month (7) 21 Does such a person, of necessity, overflow with friendship? (7) 23 Lay a pound for a co-operative (4)
24 Put lightly through the mill, it produces a fun place (10)
27 Move them round again about the body (7) 28 Guinea-fowl, by Audubon? (7)
29 Stakes everything in this defence (8)
30 The navy late for payment (6) Down 1 The sort of line one can dispense with? (9) 2 Woe the mountain, that's the Shelley spirit (7) 3 Charge here (5-5) 5 Honeyed, but tasteful, words from a hack? (9) 6 'France, famed in all great —, in none supreme' (Arnold) (4) 7 Adapt rare nag in music (7) 8 Lamentable verse (5) 9 Affirmative cry brings in the nurse (4) 14 One of those by which one should not judge (10) 16 Novel way to be carried off (9) 18 Article of bunny-club tableware? (5-4) 20 Milton at speed? (7) 22 Drunken Scot goes to market to get a polecat (7) 23 Curtains for Polonius! (5) 25 Such a fruity condition is just right (4) 26 Fleece the castle (4) Solution to Crossword no. 1317. Across: 1 Ruffles 5 Pendant 9 Shelved 10 Lakshmi 11 Elder-berry 12 Snow 13 Via 14 Tam o' Shanter 17 Predis- posed 19 Res 20 Rice 22 Federation 26 Sincere 27 Eloping 28 Send-off 29 Denudes. Down: 1 Rasse 2 Fieldfare 3 Leveret 4 Sadie 5 Polarises 6 Nike 7 Ashen 8 Trip-wires 13 Vaporises 15 Maple-leaf 16 Terrified 18 Dragoon 21 Canon 23 Emend 24 Negus 25 Nero.
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