CROSSWORD No. 1249
ACROSS
I. Like the Earl who made a dash for it? (6) 4. Artist got up rather fancifully and in all colours! (8) 9. Good Sir, the poet agrees in his heart (6) xo. A flower for Ma in gaol (8) 12. Currently on the move (8) 13. Currently not on the move ! (6) 15. Prelate with a dual personality (4)
16. Pixy met Col. What a mix-up! (io) 19. Shown by gentlemen in reference to blondes (zo) 2o. 'The black - with gold clocks' (Gilbert) (4) 23. Swords for plucked converts? (6) 25. Not, we presume, how 'The Lost Chord' was struck (8) 27. He takes pride in None-so-pretty (8) 28. Defoe's Fortunate Mistress (6) 29. It makes for smooth dressing (5, 3) 3o. The girl sounds a confounded fraud! (6) DOWN
t. Robert raises a hat to the Captain (7) 2. Model Egg Marketing Board return? (3-6)
3. Mistakes publicly admitted (6) S. A German agreement to a kiss for an old hero (4)
6. Twice this and six was Mr. Micawber's recipe for
happiness (8)
7. Twa-yea! My little - ! Who is this that lights the wigwam?' (Longfellow) (5) 8. Good man with a gun is rather stiff (7) II. Caps off! (7) 14. Pure ice is essential for the fastidious person (7) 17. Laconic avowal by Bums? It should be a stiffener (9) 18. It's cut out by gardener and sub-editor (8) 19. - are happier without their toes' (Lear) (7) 21. Would-be polymath? (7)
22. Quitted by Valentine for Milan (6) 24. Story of a Tolstoy heroine at fifty (5) 26. 'One morn a - at the gate Of Eden stood,
disconsolate' (Moore) (4)
Solution next week
Previous page
