SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1112

ACROSS 1. It was a scream when one got to the root of it (8) 5. Make a hole in the victuals perhaps (6) 3. Flowery pants (8) 4. 'There the chestnuts .... make for you A - of green gloom' (Brooke) (6) 12. A vehicle for the carnival is launched (6) 13. Fought and was thrown aside (8) 15. Does he plume himself on his cerebral capacity? (7-5) 18. The flag of Midas (4, 8) 23. The way to tell how old the cattle are? (8) 24. I go far as a valet (6) 26. Bolted-though it seems the stable door couldn't have been! (6)

27. What's a blow-up to Brutus? (8)

28. Characteristic of Clement? (6) 29. The onc, no doubt, that even- tually will turn (4-4) DOWN Worn by Madame Defarge per- haps? (3-3)

This macaroni's rather flat! (6) Look about everywhere for a queer old mystery man (7) Whither the Ancient Mariner like to walk with a goodly company (4) Regret going on the jag, by the sound of it, Stalky! (7) The kind of lily that 'slips Into the bosom of the lake'? (8) Paradoxically, end of term in one establishment! (4-4) Repeats those effusions (7) It's odd to see the good man at the stove (7)

Breakfast china? (8)

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16. 17. Time at which one might ex- pect to see flying pigs? (4, 4) 19. Not Eve's favourite instrument (7) 20. Artist at home sports a tie of many colours (7) 21. 1 hoard the wherewithal for a coiffure (4-2) 22. Two boys and a drum (6) 25. 'Enlarged winds that - the flood Know no such liberty' (Lovelace) (4) Solution next week

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