SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1159
ACROSS 1. A sailor of note (7, 61 9. Our fit pet owes eferything to a delicious little biscuit (5, 4) 10. 'Earth has not anything to show more fair' than this primrose! (5) 11. Old Hickory was such a nut! (5) 12. 'As if his whole vocation were endless -' (Wordsworth) (9) 13. Royal maid was getting this when she was attacked from the air. Result : collapse (4-3) 15. When this lover is lop, he's up the pole (7) 17. Was it Eric's way to do this on the football field? (7) 19, Noble' offspring gets on with it first in Devon (7) 21. Archbishops' fields of duty (9) 23. Where to find football Blues lolling in the summer? (5) 24. Miss Heath is all I care about (5) 25. Family histories (9) 26. That careless disc-jockey! (6-7) DOWN 2. Isolated in the St. Lawrence, against the expense, 1 (9) 3. He shows there's terrific sex appeal in a good sunburn (5) 4. As Mr. Slope might say, not in a role approved by Mrs. Proudie! (7) 5. It's very worrying to he No. I motor manufacturer (7) 6. Bespoke burial jacket for a Lancer (9) 7. Stick it, Hindu! (5) 8. Shakespeare's trumpet-call for the old men by the sound of it (6) 9. Give Dad a hand to get the fruit (5) 14. One simply can't do without this kind of music (9) 16. Creative work 1 suppress-in Jerusalem perhaps (9) 17. Plough with its own light con- trivance (6) 18. What Oliver Twist did? (7) 19. No need to tell him to get a move on (7) 20. Cleopatra's sails accommodated some of the hirundinc type (5) 22. Nothing to grieve over, but think there may he no pie! (5) 23. Louis was both a general and a politician (5) / 2
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