SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 888

ACROSS

1 Suitable material, perhaps, for the

inebriate's garment of repentance (7). 5 Flowery ending to a legend is perilous (7).

9 It goes all the way round (5).

10 Bugle call more terse than a Kipling title (6, 3).

11 Cornelia's sons were hers, she said (6).

12 It's magnetic when women jn uniform encircle the region (8).

14 When, in the opinion of Theseus, one might take a bush for a bear (5).

15 One turned back to hold up the omnibus (9).

18 Not what Swinburne meant by 'Songs before Sunrise' (9).

20 Given a line one can calculate (5).

22 Travel with Noah? We go by bus that's sound enough (8).

24 Be a dog and make it a wine shop (6).

26 Not a batsman making a cut for three (9).

27 With fifty a hit is made in this (5).

28 To convert a taxicab do this to it say, the goddess (7).

29 Not 'A' teams evidently (7). DOWN i Evasive action in the air by a Scot i! great fun (4, 5).

2 The fairy's transformation (7).

3 Has talent as he can disclose (9).

4 It seems a lethal garment in the north (4).

5 Evidently not the mount that keeps one guessing (5, 5).

6 Dynamo in reverse-or is it? (5).

7 Jungle crown prince? (4, 3).

8 Stroke is cut here (5), 13 Might it be the phrenologist on safari'? (4-6).

16 He makes corn deals (9).

17 Add a thousand to the ram in brief (9). 19 'To thy high - become a sod' (Keats) (7).

21 This must have called tor a standint) order so to speak (7).

22 Aircraftman Eddie did his stuff (5).

23 'One far-off divine -' (Tennyson) (5).

25 Doctor and seaman in melanchoh partnership (4).

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