Crossword 1399
Across 1 Forficula, specialists in short hair-styles? (7) 5 Becomes due when chums surround Chal- dean centre (7) 9 Entered singly but in a mass (5) 10 Tom, Tom, the piper's son (9) 11 That rings a bell, the Dickens it does! (6) 12 Drank about this time and got plenty of chaff (8) 14 How to make fine birds? (5) 15 Lion-tamer 0/ 18 The doe for the detergent boys? (4-5) 20 It's got everything! (5) 22 Is in a hurry to get tin (8) 24 'And as in — thought he stood' (Carroll) (61 26 Muscular chess problem? (9) 27 Praise be about love. Hear that? (5) 28 Busy getting that bottom drawer ready perhaps (7) 29 'Confirm the — as they roll And spread the truth from pole to pole' (Addison) (7) Down
1 Pies cut up in company with a chum have an odour of sanctity! (9)
2 Alexandrine band (3-4) 3 With a taste for the low-down? (2, 3, 4) 4 Simpletons in the trenches (4) 5 The cuckoo's target for mockery (7. 31
6 Not a single scrap coming up in the golfing centre (5) 7 What's fresh in what's true? (7)
8 There's a piece right in the toolhouse (5)
13 Shown in the customary way? (10)
16 But those who feed thus are, paradoxically. unlikely to be it! (3, 2. 4) 17 Tripudiary little humming-birds (9)
19 Country dog in legislative assembly abroad .(7)
21 Headgear for one recommending cereals? (7) 22 Sugary malediction (5)
23 Hawker's licence in the vernacular (5) 25 It's wrong to hurry up (4)
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Solution to Crossword 1398. Across: I Report 4 Valorous 8 Side-drum 10 Divest 12 Learn 13 Particles 14 Silks 16 Refinedly 17 Anastasia 19 Bingo 21 Overwhelm 22 Niche 24 Osiers 25 Esquires 26 Engadine 27 Strait. Down: 1 Rustles 2 Podia 3 Rodents 5 Opinion 6 Overladen 7 Satisfy 9 Unperished 11 Oriflammes 15 Leaven- ing 17 Apocope 18 Towered 19 Banquet 20 Overset 23 Curia.
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