PECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1177

to sI• rc 1 HOW would the wagon-lits get if Cause an explosion in the dark- ,s 11 (I8) depend, after mixing ten, fully

on without them? (8)

room? (4, 2)

ACROSS Cherry's going to the university, it We hear (6)

h ' Who Italian is against wine! (7) d 3. Across the honour is the lintel D • sere was high drama in Tres- ure Island (3-5, 4)

• The bird of the golden bough (6-6)

▪ • Make a happy lair (7)

• She takes a pride in her family! (7)

' Get nothing back on a limb for a Pail (6)

25. The Anglo-French place of the clay'(8) 26. To rent is corrupt (6) 27. Agreed right royally (8) DOWN

1. Put a shilling on the fish? That should cause a stink! (6)

2. Entangle with a bit of witchcraft (6) 3. Radical wine of the country (7) 4. One Pop singer who's no bryolo- gist! (7, 5) 6. Ah fools, they'll clean you up (7) 7. The bibber's complexion? (4-4) 8. Here are the clubs, old sport (4, 4) 11. The big guns of the Flat Earth Society? (5-7)

15. He has a distaste of national customs (8) 16. A thorny word for French trans- lators of Pippa Passes (8) 18. Flow a sage might go out for the last time? (7) 19. Gold in stage of reserve (7)

20. Send away to starboard? (6) 21. '0! for a Muse of fire, that would --- The brightest heaven of invention' (Shakes- peare) (6)

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