Crossword no. 1328
Across 1A tour of Parisian high-life? (6) 4 Doom is on this masonic structure (8) 10 A sort of gold-fever shows up this Rabelaisian (7) 11 Took a turn in line (7) 12 A round of cricket? Not quite! (4) 13 The nature of Harpagon (10) 16 'If it were not for the — I should not mind it' (Jane Austen) (6) 17Tenacious propagandist (7) 20 Nothing in a car instrumentally resolved (7) 21 Giant-killer (6) 24 Fluid-drive for Dusty (4-6) 25 Water-colour (4) 27 Unwelcome creatures on the Centre Court (7) 29 Georgian Daniel (7) 30 So are the cedars (8)
31 Iron turns towards the fair and gets spent (6)
Down 1 Sends up in theory (8)
2 `So full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high —' (Shakespeare) (II)
3 Near making gain (4) 5 Creature comforts creature (8) 6 I scaled ice for fragile titbits (10) 7 Spud turns up in season (3) 8 Lacking a cure; that's knotty (6) 9 Novel circumnavigator puts out a feeler (5)
14 Fall over backwards to be just! (11)
15 Till classic thing is back on departure (10) 18 Puts faith in tents round and about the old country (8) 19 Turncoat takes refuge in early English garden (8) 22Morning viva, it's unprincipled! (6) 23 The honourable ones are a tarty lot (5)
26 Birds in flight (1, 1, 1, 1)
28 A shilling for your uncle (3) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1327. Across: I Billet 4 Half-moon 9 Canary 10 Beholder, 12 Horn- pipe 13 Smirch 15 Step 16 Pennyroyal 19 Firescreen
20 Isis 23 Repeat 25 Filament 27 Fanlight 28 Sandal 29 Yuletide 30 Prayer. Down: 1 Bacchus 2 Lunar Year 3 Europa 5 Ares 6 Footmark 7 Order 8 Narwhal 11 Appears 14 Angelic f7 -Yesterday 18 Essayist 19 Firefly 21 Settler
22 Bazaar 24 Panel 26 Shed.