SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,012

ACROSS

I Single-unit dwelling, so to speak ? (8)

5 Situation preparatory to repairs on the quay, it seems (4, 2)

9 Aspect of the knight the night before (8)

10 When pulverulent ho has a flowery—floury ?—look (6)

12 Roots can be found in the trunk (5) '13 Tax us here

• bore (9)

14 Old pal and the past (12) 18 Page in terror 21 Hair-do that

ignored (6, 3) 23 Dtiet takes a good deal of study (5)

24 Ten in a very natural way (6)

in the person of a how he deals with (anag.) (12) gets the rascal 26 27 25 No use to Cyclops instrumentally (8) Rush to obtain a what-d'ye-call-it (6)

Has the Ottoman commander got a waitress? How amusing! (8)

DOWN

1 A victory sign in E.C. (6)

2 Light weights we're their speciality (6)

3 Unsettled account posit ively bulging (9) 4 Stand of the queuers for the Proms, perhaps (7, 5) 6 '—! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do' (Keats) (5)

7 The idle literary doctor (8) 8 Limns larboard lights? (8) 11 McCoy's speciality (3, 4, 5)

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Solution on October 17

15 Shut up!--paradoxically (5, 4) '

16 Tidying up the forest; maybe (8)

17 He is not, surprisingly, web-footed (8) 19 Carmen's bar that can be ap- proached in both directions (4, 2) 20 The flower of Dunblane (6) 22 Collapse of the stile made of fibre (5)