SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1199
ACROSS
1. Gay's ruddy fruit) (6) 4. A sunny sort of incongruity (8) 9. Profession of the sitter as a young man (6)
10. Half a cattle town? Fishy, really (8)
12. This he is if he only runs a saloon (8)
13. This is a perfume on the way up (6) 15. It is said about an elevated place (4) 16. The very core of all our troubles? (5, 5)
19. Are they in the same predica- ment as the leopards? (10)'
20. Essential ingredient of Mr. Crosby's seasonable dream (4) 23. Paysages a la Hampstead (6) 25. Is such a formality the result of a superfluity of potatoes? (8) 27. Like a sponger in the bar? (8) 28. The horsy goddess (6) 29. Live wires of the grapevine (8) 30. The mixture before being taken (6) DOWN 1. An unfortunate style of swim- ming (7) 2. Set up a club in Greek Street, perhaps (9) 3. The stony old critic seems to be a country cousin (6) 5. Robs some baubles (4)
6. The result of east meeting west? (8)
7. French queen as peacemaker (5) 8. Am eaten by a siren (7)
11. Nothing is up with Tennyson's invited girl, but being sentimen- tal (7)
14. Sounds a tigerish toadstool and can be just as lethal (7) 17. Steal up on the stream to find this glistering stuff (9) 18. Caveman causing a leak? (3-5) 19. Show evidence (7) 21. I'd gone west for the duck (7) 22. Singular trousers for the gunner at his place of work (6) 24. How banal can a good man be? (5) 26. The warm wine isle? (4)
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