SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1211

ACROSS 29.

1. Lip? (10) 30.

6. A well-plucked 'un (4) 10. Palindromic revolver (5) 11. Like music among the palms? (9) 1.

12. Appealing cry from the Islands 2. is most distressing (9) 13. Silence is essential for cards (5) 3.

14. These little dishes are rather old hat (10) 4. 16. Leguminous crop from Innis- 5. free? (4) 7. 18. Seeks to get first-class writing (4) 20. It's sheer cruelty to involve uncle in a truce (10) 23. Edward's such an ass! (5) 24. foresight, strength and skill' (Wordsworth) (9) 27. Basil and Eric in a shemozzle are very irritable (9) 28. Frighten a copper with a fair relative (5) Quick to abstain (4) Not, however, Pussyfoot's remedial measures (10) DOWN Little women take exercise (5) To coin a phrase, he might say!

Choirman musically engaged

Woad-users? (5) Classy without exception! (9) It's the fish for Mrs. Boniface (7) What a sorry state to be in! (9) They nest at sea (5) Suitor in an ugly quarrel (9) Young Capability Brown? (6-3) Fed up about a household god, blazed in fact (6. 2) Liberal dreams can be so fruity! (7) Legal process appropriate to a nudist camp? (3-4)

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21. 22. The infamous captain from Vir- ginia (5) 25. 'In a - flighted December. Too happy, happy tree' (Keats) (5) 26. For the record, he's a young hound (5)

Solution next week

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No.I211

ACROSS.-1 Staves. 4 Goldfish. 9 Oblong. 10 Taffrail. 12 Digested. 13 Patent. 15 Rare. 16 Melancholy. 19 Backbiters. 20 Hank. 23 Ushers. 25 Entangle. 27 Hathaway. 28 Hemans. 29 Rasseias. 30 Asleep.

DOWN.-1 Scoldcr. 2 Allegoric. 3 Ernest. 5 Olaf. 6 Defiance. 7 Irate. 8 Helotry, 11 Resents. 14 Fairing. 17 Orangeade. 18 Aberdare. 19 Blucher, 21 Knees up. 22 Waters. 24 Hates. 26 Baba.