SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1109

I. Inevitable favourite in the Nursery Stakes (7, 5) 9. Where to find the infant Prodigy at play (4, 5)

10. Make things cosy for old soldiers approaching Abraham's 11 city (5)

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• I leave the painter for a cosy (6) 12. Miss Kauffman, so sweet in , green (8)

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'3. Stevenson's second mother,

, first wife (6) Is. Fish that got away? Drat about that! (81 18. 'These night-fliers do lap it up (8)

19. Charm one as the lobes du? (6) 21, The man in the Attic (8) . 23. Genial address for Captain ' Southernwood (3, 3) 26. Do look this kind of gift horse in the month! (5)

27. Might boil' and storm together in an upheaval (9) 28. What's that noise at the stair- head? (5-7) DOWN I. Archer's victim's own tree (7) 2. Sailor in his hammock? He might have been! (5) 3. Meet in glen, love? OK! It should be cosy! (5-4)

-4. Capricious creature, enccm- passed in many a pub (41

5. Somewhat plain fare for a judge (8) 6. It's sharp for Khatchaturian's dance (5) 7. What' makes that poor dog go on so? Rites! (.7) 8. Announcing the engaged signal no doubt (8) 14. Paddies are characteristic of • them (8) 16. '1 am not quite a but you would hardly notice it,' said Mr. Salteena (9)

17. 'The slate of Little Rock (8)

18. What's the pull here? The drink (7) 20. The needlewpman's athletic • activity (7) 22. Kettledrum in a hand on a Modem kerb (5) 24. 1 roam about down under (5) 25. A thousand quit being virtuous when the exam conies (4)

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