CROSSWORD No. 1225
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ACROSS
1. Blue-print for a good continental motor (6) 4. Cot dream for a bit of Wales (8)
8. Sounds averse to cash-some type! (8) 10. Nominally correct form of address (6)
12. The watery giant (5)
13. Willing trumpeter, perhaps? (9) 14. 'When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with -!' (Tennyson) (5) 16. Getting things taped, angelically, perhaps? (91 17. Old stagers can be them, surprisingly enough (9) 19. Icy geometrical containers (5) 21. Earthy bird? He measures up to it (4-5) 22. Rome comes to love a lover (5) 24. It is beastly! (6) 25. Leopard-watching? (8) 26. Harlequin's costume? (8) 27. Finish with the listening-post, this Won't make it any cheaper! (6) DOWN 1. Blake's fiery conveyance (I)
2. Or back to the hill to be twisty (5)
3. How the rain might get in? (7)
5. lack or Royal? A bit of both (7) 6. It is exhausting! (9)
7. Phoney get-up for a Scots farmer? (4-3) 9. H.P. Land? (5-5) 1 I. The lamb of the family? Hardly! (5. 5) 15. The natives here sleep firmly from twelve to one, according to Mr Coward (9)
17. With which to toe the Plimsoll Line (7) 18. It would be telling to do it (7) 19. The vital stuff of the carrot (7) 20. Old soak? (7) • 23. It's labyrinthine, we hear. and corny (5) Solution next week