SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1141
ACROSS
1. Robinson was demonstrably the cocky lyre! (6)
4. cash drafts for pictures (8) Q. like this dress? (7)
.111 Look, Tarka's going back to school (7) .12 am the last word in little devils (4) 1.3. Nora is upset being full of Spanish wine---and how noisy (10) .
16. Songs of a foreign countr.Y (6) 17. Work unit in foreign waters accounts for sinkings (7) 20. 'What I - to be, And was not, comforts me' (Browning) (7)
21. lie brings Horn to book (6) 24. Dotty financial settlements? (10) 2.5. *They need themselves to keep their enthusiasm in check (4) 27. Pirst-year runner should be in
good form (7) 29. Upright in an ;indent Cornish look-out (7)
30 Awning that has nudes con- cealed, a put-up job (8)
31. Country writer (6) DOWN 1. 1-lot-pot for the lab. boys (8) 2. Ignored by the Press Gang so not affected (11) 3. A high ball coming up, love, very light. (4) 5. Got soft about Leonard and Edward (8) 6. Purveyors by appointment to Bellona?. (10) 7. Gilbert, Meg's missing (3) 8. Love among the snows subsides poetically (6) 9. 'Ready to - once, and - no more (Milton) (5) , 14. That's very bright!;(11) 15. Novel place for a low thinker (10) 18. Not one is - with the mania of owning things,' observed Whitman of the animals (8) 19. The old thing among the coppers has certainly got bearing (8) 22. Unlettered lovelies (6) 23. For Boston orators? (6) 26. A god takes wing (4) 28. Foremost transport (3)
. Solution next week
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