Crossword 1439
Across 1 The inconstant cha-lover? (7) 5 Half the company is of doubtful repute (4-3) 9 Making little old ladies' bags? (7) 10 You get the warning to a T in writing at times like these (7) 11 'Bid me to live and I will live Thy to be' (Herrick) (10) 12 A sound of derision from Nannie? (4) 13 But she could be a buoy! (3) 14 There are cures for dancing mania in triplets for couples! (11) 17 Was Cowper one of this bossy company? (11) 19 Scottish men 'worthy of their steel' (3) 20 Look in Rome and repeat at home! (4)
22 Flourish like 'the cherry hung with snow'? (7, 3)
26 This notion's a bit dim (7) 27 You go first (7) 28 Worn by one in straits for tree-climbing? (3, 4) 29 Hardy rulers (7) Down 1 Is the girl a wallflower? Far from it! (3-2) 2 Travelling expenses (9) 3 Make backward dive about ten; is that clear? (7) 4 Has a thing about the dark (5) 5 Mendelian ascendancy (9) 6 Those Carrollian raths (4) 7 Meltingly like Julia's silks? (5) 8 Hurry? It all depends on the horse-power! (4-5) 13 What's Jack of the Hall doing? (9) 15 Hasten to get down a candle (4-5) 16 Leavings from a sinister bowler? (4-5)
18 The fireplace is fixed but has taken a bash- ing (5, 2)
21 Right in murmuring? What claptrap! (5) 23 After a step up I should be grateful (5) 24 'A brotherhood of venerable (Wordsworth) (5) 25 That idle Carthaginian queen (4) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword 1438. Across: 1 Pellucid 5 Poppet 9 Activate 10 Slater 12 Mantis 13 Tranmere 15 Isolationist 18 Superintends 23 Pilaster 24 Aviate 26 Appals 27 Trencher 28 Tressy 29 Thursday. Down: 1 Psalms 2 Lutine 3 Unveils 4 Iota 6 Orlando 7 Pathetic 8 Tor- rents 11 Dratted 14 Plunger 16 Ash-plant 17 Apple-pie 19 Results 20 Diviner 21 Mashed 22
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