Crossword 1388
Across 1 What's the angle on a takeover? (6) 4 Home ground of the episcopal dahlia (8) 8 Deny tea began in confusion (8) 10 Petals to be used in order to fix the market (6)
12 'He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral. or — a tale' (Dr Johnson) (5) 13 Green lass turns round to show her size (9)
14 Analyses the metric system (5) 16 The best way in which to get dressed? (6, 3) 17 It would make a bus growl—but it's just a sweet dish (5-4) 19 Paper people (5) 21 Boiling down to a Caesarian interpretation (9) 22 Pirate radio affirmative signal? (5) 24 'Man . .. still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly —' (Charles Darwin) (6) 25 A plus in maths (8)
26 Superlatively destructive (8)
27 The bank lets one get embellishment by the foot (6) Down 1 Roman citizen with a group of tanks finds ties (7) 2 The music of the spheres? (5)
3 'And, 0 you mortal —, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit' (Othello) (7)
5 Food for thought? (7) 6 'My heart is like an — Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit' (Christina Rossetti) (5-4)
7 See into the past after trouble which turns out to be a fancy cutler (7)
9 It's simply being far-sighted (10) 11 The unpopular one of Two Nations (10) 15 The next best place to El Dorado? (9) 17 Petrified Shakespearian preachings (7) 18 Wagnerian—in a maidenly sort of way 19 Rugged feline? (6) 20 There's nothing gross after southern classi- cal art—it's fine stuff (7) 23 Examine under fire? (5) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword 1387. Across: 1 Lovelace 5 Foxcub 9 Ball-game 10 Lenses 12 Drawn 13 Foliation 14 Gallinaceous 18 Merry Monarch 21 Genevieve 23 Arena 24 Entail 25 Feigning 26 Sucker 27 Asteroid. Down: 1 Libido 2 Vulcan 3 Legendary 4 Camp-follower 6 Omega 7 Cast- iron 8. Business II Plantagenets 15 Cockaigne 16 Smugness 17 Frenetic 19 Merino 20 Ragged
22 Voile.
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