SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1119

ACROSS

1. 'Bankrupt of life, yet - of ease' (Dryden) (8) 5. Seeks right round for the kames (6) 9. Further, there's less under! (8) 10. A hundred pounds and a broken rose is nearer (6) 12. The sound of chorus-work down on the ranch (6) 13. Cronin's Spaniard (8) 15, The wild west is their beat (5, 7) 18. No island breed, these (12) 23. Sip very strong gin well mixed, ;, it's terrific! (8) 'The wandering Dong through the---goes' (Lear) (6) 26. Feed half symbolic is smoothed Out (6)

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28. Does aput-up job 16)8) 29. They get knocked .down, but It's only a game (8)

DOWN

1. Up, up, before mice get the stone (6)

2. The solar system going like clockwork (6)

3. It was a hard old time (4-3) 4. Name with difficulty, so let it be (4) • 6. Lettuce served for Richard's adversary (7) 7. Riotous south-east scenes re- veal inner natures (8) 8. Sir P. sure is muddled, which is unexpected (8) 11. The vehicle disintegrates and grows roots (7) 14. Beware, the Navy's in the hollows (7) 16. Can tale a cut (8) 17. A drug to stop fawning? (8) 19: Do a tongue-Mister? (7) 20. Beware the vigilante! (4-3) 21. Audibly corny in instalments (6) 22. One puts on the boards by de- grees (6) 25. Migrate, hoofing it (4) Solution lies i week / 2 -.. 4 5 G / I /1 II 12 - ill II /4. 111- 0 /6 /8-

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