Crossword no. 1299
Across 1 Bread-winners (10) 6 With which to get the feel of things (4) 10 Set language (5) 11 A girlish state of languor (9) 12 Masterful prevalence (9)
11 I go into the Eagle to get the gambling machine (5)
14 Improving outlook for the punter? (10) 16 Accustomed to the second-hand (4) 18 Private Paddy has the sound makings of a colonel (4) 20 Hollywood fortune-teller, or maker, perhaps (4-6) 23 Classical man returns and makes a bolt for it (5) 24 Possible reverse, in a gale, of a plant so beflowered? (9) 27 Poor Claudius! (9) 28 A name for ladies only, it would seem (5) 29 Undone knot (4) • 30 This is no way fcir Miss Blaise to carry on! (10) Down 1 Having watered silk on? (5) 2 Do some coarse palmistry to let in again (7) 3 Manoeuvre, like a sapper (8) 4 With which to hold the cards? (5) 5 Crewman on one of Brunel's great ships? (9)
7 Sunrise on bitter crystals sees the old scholar here (7)
8 Young Stuart (9) 9 Blimey! There's a Britisher here (5) 14 Cake-maker childishly urged to high-speed production (6-3) 15 Nonconformist approach to drama? (9) 17 Service-tree on negative root grows in the University (8) 19 Revolution dies having undergone a going-over (7) 21 More Greenwich Mean Time needed to make an eyelet (7) 22 White-coated worker for the embellishment of justice (5) 25 She was classically set at nought, this muse (5) 26 Girl or boy? (5)
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