SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1207
ACROSS 1. It is in a confused ploy one finds organisation (6)
4. No obstacles in the struggle for an apartment (4, 4)
9. Landed doggies? (6) 10. Good-looking publican (8) 12. Everyone a solitary apparently, like the Ancient Mariner (3, 5) 13. Aim of the Arab in retreat? (6) 15. Introduction to a bloody mess in Kensington (4) 16. The place of the serial in France (10)
19. No vacancies for bell-hops as the manager might put it laconically (8-2)
20. Sunny smile (4) 23. An apple for morning perhaps? (6) 25. Cartographer much given to talking shop presumably (8) 27. Lippo Lippi in scarlet? It's beyond the limit! (5-3) 28. Everything's just right in a dream of France, so call it back (6) 29. All duchesses are, by definition (8) 30. Put food for the wheatear? (6)
DOWN
1. An opening for display of know- ledge by the sommelier? (7) 2. Lustre not, by inference, wel- come to evil-doers (9) 3. Shellback who might take a turn at sea (6) 5. 'There is not a more fearful wildfowl than your - living' (Shakespeare) (4) 6. Funny shape for a leg in art (8) 7. Surprise in a Daedalian produc- tion (5) 8. Where a dusky girl gets an untidy torn hemline (7) 11. 'He only does it to annoy' (7) 14. Took a nip exclusively at top people? That's pretty inflam- mable (7) 17. It's for the majority of people (6-3) 18. To conceal crow's-feet might be a risky business (8) 19. The noise at Cruft's is enough to deter royalty (7) 21. 'A green thought in a green shade' (-) (7) 22. Do say yes! (6) 24. How can I be in Chesterfield when I'm abroad? (5) 26. Food for those chaps in 14 (4) Solution next week
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