SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1176
ACROSS 1. It's round in the polling station
bA9. 4. Th) e time came to talk of the vegetables, among other things ) out done, and more so (6) 10. Where to encounter a granular
barrier? (8) 12. Absolutely grammatical! (8) 13. Polish? Foreign, anyway! (6) 15. Goya goes in for an oriental way (4) 16. 'The Terror of the Thames' (10)
19. The way of acting? (10)
20. He gets dresse4 for dinner, at a pinch! (4) 23. Where 22 gets taken up on 22 feet (6)
25. Timber does it in all of them (8)
27. What Cleopatra's person did to all description (8)
28. A scholarly old saint dis- covered in Le Mans (6)
29. Need mate to correct (8) 30. What an age it was! (6) DOWN 1. A coastal sort of mimic? (7) 2. It's enough to turn an actor green! (9) 3. Not even peculiar? Surely it is (6)
5.1A star rises in the river (4)
6. Speed on the slope is of interest in Threadneedle Street (4, 4) 7. Fodder for old ocean racers (5) 8. It makes a good match ! (7) 11. How a too generous patron might become unbalanced? (4-3) 14. Hot work, this kind of labour (7) 17. 'Law, say the -, is the sun' (W. H. Auden) (9) 18. Fragmentary evidence of a bull in a china-shop? (8) 19. Highland son of a mixed-up hear. Grisly, perhaps? (7) 21. Wild London shepherds? (7)
22. Can set a sporting position (6)
24. The sort of bird's-eye view Cortez had of the Pacific (5) 26. This way, young man! (4) Solution next week
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