Crossword 1406
Across 1 Water-colour picture. of course (8) 5 Those legal lights in Trollope country? (6) 9 Scratchy old writer, from Abbotsbury per- haps (5, 3) 10 Bright girl (6)
12 The rod, and bird of peace and all such —' (Hen. VIII) (7) 13 Provider of bits and pieces in the equestrian world (7) 14 Trains on the turntable, softly now but firmly (12)
17 Jewels are held by one ancient law and ceremonial (12) 22 Dull sort of percussion from an Irish town (7) 23 Was there a white hart in his crest? (7) 24 'Or hear old — blow his wreathed horn' (Wordsworth) (6) 25 Like an empty lachrymal? (8) 26 Singer turned painter (6) 27 One Pussyfoot came to a stop and waited (8) Down 1 What comes next? (6) 2 Elbow room essential for this joint exercise (6) 3 Leading visitors at country dances? (7) 4 Stately fun-fair? (8-4) 6 A treat's in store for a goddess (7) 7 So far, the astronauts haven't encountered him! (8) 8 Five o'clock carriers, welcome no doubt to Cowper (3-5) 11 Banish mental derangement in flattery (12) 15 Stop that music, brigands! (8)
16 Leading man for Twelfth Nigilp (4-4)
18 The horse with the halo (7) ' 19 The muse who takes the palm (7) 20 Big bird in untidy bed-sitter, add that (6) 21 Opened up—by a pressure group? (6) Solution next week.
Solution to Crossword 1405. Across: 1 Drago- man 5 Rustic 9 Breached 10 Aspern 12 Trial 13 Aristotle 14 Card-sharpers 18 Congenitally 21 Intersect 23 Troth 24 Armour 25 Annotate 26 Eccles 27 Odysseus. Down: 1 Debate 2 Acetic 3 Oscillate 4 Alexandrines 6 Upset 7 Twenties 8 Condense II Disheartened 15 Relations 16 Echinate 17 Anatomic 19 Horace 20 Cheers 22 Rouse.
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