Crossword 1444
Across 1 Saxon colt spots cat (6)
4 How an MP might expect to be treated by right? (8)
8 Fly bird (8) 10 Agile hundred confuses Celtic (6) 12 Narrow election gives a goad (5) 13 Put life back into — Mickey Mouse maybe? (9) 14 Swift lout (5) 16 'Thorny — be not seen' (Midsummer Night's Dream) (9) 17 The Japanese don't care to go out in it (6, 3) 19 A debt withheld (5) 21 Look out in the market and take risk (9) 22 'Will pack when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the —' (King Lear) (5) 24 Activate the beard for shade! (6) 25 Cross computer-work (8) 26 Put into military code? (8) 27 Little master Franklin quids in for fish (6) Down 1 A regular, no doubt (7) 2 Shakespearian arm of the law? (5) 3 To go up and give greeting to the dark warrior (7) Love chum in the east, that's gemlike (7) 6 Revolutionary nautical movement leads to becoming podgy (9) 7 Short-cut workers (7)
9 One of Parma's novel brothers is translated (10)
11 Where chief Vestal goes on the town? (10) 15 Mrs Mopp goes classical (9) 17 Flowery Yorkist communication! (7) 18 Child of learning (7) 19 Let a small relation turn out brutal (7) 20 Dr Money covers one of Dr Dee's pursuits
23 'Let — atoms lurk within the bowl And scarce suspected, animate the whole' (Sydney Smith) (5)
Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1443. Across: 1 Re- proofs 5 Sorbet 9 Bindweed 10 Plater 12 Stairs 13 Viennese 15 Isolationist 18 Discouraging 23 Pargeted 24 Smooth 26 Embers 27 Blushing 28 Siding 29 Holstein. Down: 1 Robust 2 Penman 3 Onwards 4 Fret 6 Orlando 7 Bathetic 8 Tor- ments 11 Vintage 14 Slurred 16 Adapters 17 Ascribed 19 Over-run 20 Nemesis 21 Polite 22 Shogun 25 Alto.
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