SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1143

ACROSS

I. It is full of classical situations (5. 5)

6. A sharp drop in the confec- tionery business (4)

10. Be very soft 0 clown! (5)

11. 'Then a sentimental passion of a - fashion must excite your languid spleen' (W. S. Gilbert) (9) 12. Grow like a missile (8) • 13. Get down to it in China (6) 15. Go it for freedom (4) 16. Knock back nuts (4) 17. Customary garb (5) 20. Return the few (5)

21. He must be the man to take the seat (4) 22. 41 am a kind of -, I shall Stick' (Measure for Measure) (4) 24. Fooled, but with :gloves on! (6) 26, A sign of copper and a bit

of lakeland produces a vegetable, surprisingly enough (8) • .

29. Steal pine in an old state (9) 30. A thousand in green (5) 31. There is a demand for action in the bakery, we hear (4) 32. Obviously they are true Of)) DOWN

1. Yes and this nation, confused, swings over (5)

2. Not the sort of situation -to strike in (9) 3, Sounds like old Clark! (6) 4. Rising, it gives one a turn (10) 5. Starry-eyed orientals? (4) 7. ABC to become an explorer (5)

8. Sounding unnecessary here (4, 5)

9. Post her mixed lines of verse (7) 14. A means for play (10)

15. Time off free to all when you . force an entry (5, 4)

18. Sad-whiskered, much-wed, he! (9) 19. Where to find the minimum? (2, 5)

23. A piece a alchemy! (6) 25. Dig like Adam (5)

27. Cohbett's rural pursuits (5) 28. Nellie ought to know this old place by the stream (4) Solution next week