Crossword no. 1381
Across 1 Exponent of grass-roots politics? (7) 5 Frame for heavenly waggoner and little sister (7) 9 Freed to procrastinate (5) 10 Organised—as in Gascony? (9) 11 Shade essential for iris (6) 12 Plays put life into a duckbill (8) 14 Eclipse at Gaza (5)
15 Male employee the French treat roughly (9)
18 Takeover contest? (5-4) 20 Make much of music (5) 22 Serve quickly at the betrothal (8) 24 Coming adrift in sententious verse (6)
26 In Antigua no don is to be seen, even fossilised! (9)
27 They are made to last! (5) 28 Specialist in seating accommodation for travellers (7) 29 Accept defeat? What stuff! (7) Down 1 Noteworthy leftish missive? (3-6) 2 Fed up getting a bit of a lecture? Turn aside then (7) 3 How to drink with a good heart (9) 4 Makes warm jackets for old offenders (41
5 A very big one died from an attack of stone! (10)
6 Account for ale? (5) 7 Position of Goldsmith's conquering heroine? (7) 8 Apiarian baskets (5)
13 Top messenger (10)
16 Roundhead order in carpet town? (9) 17 Made a shady exit? (9) 19 Like those Lydian airs? (7) 21 The brightness of Simnel? (7) 22 Icy greetings (5) 23 It's the end! (5)
25 Now's the time to come clean, as it acre (4)
Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no. 1380. Across: I Straphangers 9 Track-suit 10 Green 11 Lemurs 12 Headline 13 Stream 15 Meantime 18 Win- tered 19 Twined 21 Ambushed 23 Bulbul 26 Vault 27 Abounding 28 Poodle-fakers. Down: 1 Settles 2 Realm 3 Poker-face 4 Arum 5 Gathered 6 Raged 7 Sincere 8 Revision 14 Runabout 16 New Guinea 17 Hereward 18 Wharves 20 Deluges 22 Sotto 24 Bride 25 Voce-
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