SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1156

ACROSS

1. Camp-follower in old Wool- wich? (4-4)

5. French girl puts on a good show in the water (6)

9. A gem, but hot stuff! (4-4)

10. A marked difference in sound (6) 12. Ring it for dressing (6) 13. No obscurity in Waterford pre- sumably (5-3) 15. Not grand, but honest-sounding (7, 5)

18. Well-wishers seek him out (5-7)

23. Fishing trip? (8) 24. 'There arc nine and sixty ways

of constructing lays' (Kip- ling) (6)

26. Visitor who may ask for a tune (6) 27. Kubla Khan's dome (8) 28. It's hard indeed inside (6) 29. Incipient grog-blossom? Flowery anyhow! (8) DOWN 1. First election cry of old? (6) 2. All-star noble model (6) 3. Pug worn out, no longer a pup (5-2) 4. 'And - their hisCry in a nation's eyes' (Gray) (4) 6. Makes light work of welding (3-4) 7. Gogol's was bespoke (8) 8. Occasional Homeric lapse (8) 11. Paradoxically welcome this stony outlook (3, 4) 14. The Metropolitan? (7) 16. Not that Quoodle's predecessor was this in the pejorative sense! (3-5) 17. Playful type of wanderer (8) 19. Senior girls expert at the stove? (7) 20. Stamp and set aside (7) 21. More than right, but, oh, so dull! (6) 22. With which taximen execute a pincers movement? (6) 25. If I forsake my alibi, where am I? (4)

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