SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1155

ACROSS

1. Brassica, that's hot (7)

5. The sort of writing that really it writing (7) 9. Evidently the lass was present in the liquor shob (7) 10. A purely Roman event (7) 11. Begin these stones by making a heap (10) 12. The backward artist is in con- fusion, producing the lady's drapery (4) 13. Sounds like a French woman, and at arm's length too (3)

14. For Neptune's spray, perhaps? (3, 8) 17. There's no night-shift for this worker! (3, 8)

19. Elementary, you might say lightly (3) 20. Gone, like Renard (4)

22. Columns of correspondence (10) 26. Party piece for the shepherd piper? (7)

27, An example of three-way trifling!

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The chef's form of acknowledg- ment? (7) 29. The sort of line which is taken in conversation (7) DOWN

1. 'There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and - in its roar' (Byron) (5)

2. Strictly speaking. a. peculiar product! (9) 3.-Subterranean water-gate? (7) 4. He ran a race with an old kangaroo (5) 5. He took his pick in Forty-nine (9)

6. Partial contribution to a failure at running! (4) 7. The equitational half, one might suppose, of a Norse double-act () 8. One to whose charge the Rus- sian is committed (9) 13. One's best is a good attempt (9) 15. A make-up that's singular, so to speak (9)

16. An almost dististrous close-up! (4, 5)

18. It's staggering to a fisherman (7) 21. Montezuma's race (5)

23. The cat's whiskers, perhaps? (5)

24. Kept in line by the monarch (5)

25. Insulated hail! (4)

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