SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 998

Demand ? Precisely (5). 16 It's so rude to be these (9)

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1 Old cattle enclosure? It should provide plenty of shade (7) sPortsman who might appear to scale (7) An old-fa rsshioned clue (5) if 4▪ 0 Ranke? Sounds as i they're always on the mend! (9) al Interval for Chinese music? worker? q Interval for the restrictive worker? ....114 he girl with the hidden hoard (5) Mixed up, ain't I, love? (9)

L8 I clap myth (anag.) (9)

Al It found in digging until the

• soil's fit (5)

'A Not the kind of advance planning Popular with the schoolboy (4-4) 44 Relative to the little horse,

cheque than in an album (9) 25 Eleanore in confusion (4)

7 A main street, if short, has

lavishly decorated (6) 8 I'm in the alternative, says she (5)

strength (7) Date-palms. 28 Acclamations.

the dance! (10)

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2 The giant cactus (7) not the word because we have so

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