SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1142
ACROSS 1. Three times shorter (6) 4. The Jane who was most un- fortunate (8) 9. The General is solely composed of anger and weight (6) 10. Where a singer bet on a bob- tail nag (8)
12. Headless devil chases his head across for one of his practi- tioners (8) 13. Liz, for example (6)
15. Legal action? (4)
16. Mechanics with a crafty start (10) 19. What a double-crossing nark does? (10) 23. Ain up to go back for the cat (4) 43. Dancers do it up to get moving 25. (The packet in action (8)
27. He's at hoMe when surrounded by water (8) 28. 'No Little Illy-handed Baronet he, A great broad-shouldered Englishman' (Tennyson) (6) 29. Heather after twelve months makes a racy youngster (8) 30." A bit of East Anglia overrun by a little fox (6) DOWN I. The last of the line may be a wag (4-3)
2. Slim quality of poor Syrinx (9)
3. Not necessarily significant of de- pressi Office (6)ons in the Meteorological 5. The first architect? (4) 6. Eve's pudding? (5, 3) 7. Devices for restraint and smoothness (5) 8. The Limeys reply to their christeners (7) 11, . . I the very houses seem asleep' (Wordsworth) (4, 3) 14. The chef at work takes it easy (7)
17. True I do in confusion find learning (9)
IS. It's hellish! (8)
19. Soften up little Mary with a condition (7) 21 The best temperament for a rising harpist to have (7) 22. 'When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist,Erastian Whig' (Chesterton) (6) 24. Bad French thanks for a knightly stronghold (5)
26. A stylish scam (4)
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