"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 453
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ACROSS
1. At work he is definitely on the map. (12.)
9. Here they ought to know what twice two makes, and that's flat I (9.) 10. Eyes on the Pacific. (5.) 11. Persuade. (6.) 12. My end ? No, I escape in disguise. (8.) 13. Peripatetic nursery bird. (6.) 15. A safe line in foot wear. (8.)
18. Used by the stonewaller ? (8.)
19. " The game is more than the of the game " (Kipling). (6.) 21. One might expect these cattle-thieves to be overheard. (8.)
23. His interests were centred in a descending scale. (6.)
26. There's nothing in a fall. (5.) 27. " Bird-song at morning and - at night " (Stevenson). (9.) 28. Inexperienced digits make things grow. (5, 7.)
DOWN
1. P1153 on the fish. (7.)
2. It's mad to unplait this. (5.)
3. Sto.)p too much in designing textiles. (9
4. Gather. (4.) 5. Avuncular foot? (8.) 6. Paper in the rough, so to speak. (5.) 7. Blazon from " Hamlet." (7.) 8. Plant which compresses the farmer's cash ? (8.) 14. Confused as in nook. (8.) 16. The French don't seem to think it a good house. (9.)
17. Region of insular blondes ? (4, 4.)
18. It just shows what one may suffer in a bedroom. (8.) 20. Footballers with a lot of " away " fixtures ? (7.) 22. One can't get reasonable permission without him. (5.) 24. This ensign has nothing to do with surrender. (5.) 25. A binding quadruped. (4.)
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