Crossword no.1349
Across 1 What, pawn the family favourites, the darlings?
(7) 5 Negotiated the primrose path presumably (7) 9■ Johnny the bull-fighter of Allington (5) 10 Scotsman concealing new dollar (9) 11 `Battering the gates of heaven with — of prayer' (Tennyson) (6) 12 Shellback, but no old salt (8) 14 There's something lustrous about wrongdoili,:! (5) 15 Attic-dwellers? (9) 18 Navicular and fashionable in Bristol (9) 20 Swear word, honest it is (5) 22 'Beside the — in the floods' (William Morris) (8) 24 A dram—at the meet perhaps? .(6) 26 Male notes may be expected from these manly columnists (9) 27 Rose and I are in bed (5) 28 Peregrine's tight! (7) 29 Piratical gallows (4-3)
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Down 1 'This life is all chequered with — and woes' (Moore) (9) 2 Gun-dogs? (7) 3 Supports legal rights to use what's not one's own (9) 4 Old but full of est (4) 5 Mercury's talaria didn't make him look all this Seedy! (4, 2, 4) 6 It's all up with Ma, says the baggage carrier (5) 7 Brave state of the New World (7) 8 `By forms unseen their — is sung' (Collins) (5) 13 Blades can be so decorative (10) 16 Our big hen, much ruffled, found not far away (9) 17 Unlikely gathering in which to get harem's din! (9) 19 Lily involved with Spanish hero but happily innocent (7) 21 She was invited to observe 'patines of bright gold' (7) 22 Male sheep gets so agitated! (3, 2) 23 The language of dispute? (5) 25 A fair shot, but likely to make one pale (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1348. Across: 1 Forage 4 Mandrake 9 Ensign 10 Grafting 12 Dwellers 13 Damson 15 Rate 16 Avenaceous 19 Federa- tion 20 Idol 23 Staffs 25 Sentence 27 Initiate 28 Cornea 29 Galliard 30 Ascend. Down: 1 Fielder 2 Respected 3 Gaggle 5 Acre 6 Defiance 7 Amiss 8 Engines 11 Gravity 14 Endowed 17 Ordinance 18 Graffiti 19 Fishing 21 Leeward 22 Stoops 24 Ariel 26 Star.
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