SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1219
ACROSS 1. Talking point? (10) 6. Hold this case (4) 10. 'The world's great age begins anew, The golden - return' (Shelley) (5)
11. It would seem not to exist, its unimportant anyway (9)
12. Bounceable? (8)
13. Conventional wartime city (6)
15. Go lamb-like over the ba3ket (4) 16. The Painted Porch (4) 17. Blue privilege? (5) 20. He's to be found in the gallery at the yard ()
21. Those impish5 Kaffirs (4) 22. Brother in the Bunny Club? (4) 24. Compensate in print? (6) 26. Miss Ashford's were young, you see (8) 29. Iron .taint messes up the acid treatment (9) 30. Room for grease? (5) 31.: Mrs Porter's (and her daufb- ter's) foot-bath water (4) 32. Like the astronomer's pupil? (6-4)
DOWN 1. Make out to be in his favour (5) 2. Feeling strongly, a spirit might appear by so doing (9) 3. To stand on tins is to press things (6) 4. Singularly stony (10) 5. An 'amusing number at the source of inspiration (4)
7. Rupert's river, the maidens' home (5) 8. Generally speaking, he's in charge at the treasury (9)
9. Puts the price up on affection? 14. He should feel at home on a field-day (10) 15. Invests in. the ambient (9)
18. As which' Mr Brown began to discover his -rnpabilities (6.3)- 19. Ttia. ? (2) issued- • rank in- the- US are17 23. In which state a footman might appear on the morning after the night before (6) 25. The life of one who is so, hangs by a thread! (5) 27. How a shilling owed leads to something planted (5) 28. '. . . and a grey - on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking' (Masefield) (4)
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