CROSSWORD No. 1259
ACROSS x Jack should achieve his objective (6) 4 A man of steel (8)
8 Prim nude, without even a single coat ! (8) to A rank order, not to be issued on the quayside. (41 2) 12 'The — at my feet Doth the same tale repeat' (Wordsworth) (5)
13 Amounting to thanks amid the sound of bells (9) 14 There's a setback'about work if one drinks hard (5) r6 Chief of the Archers is very green (9) 17 Colour plus sound in this proclamation (3, 3, 3) x9 Like the Fleet in a famous broadcast ! (3, 2) 21 I con Mandy in getting the ascendency (9)
22 Bony bridge-maker? (5)
24 Strix's offspring don't, it seems, tidy up the bath- room ! (6) 25 The CO's bird (8) 26 Tickets for displays of mosaic work (8) 27 If I'd a mac, I'd be this ; or would I? (6) DOWN
Major character of Hardy's (7) 2 Show some signs of maturity (5)
3 Old Ireland gets agreement from three passionate ladies (7) 5 Justice demands a place for everybody in the demonstration (7) 6 Melisande's British counterpart (9) 7 Ed Green revoked, did he? (7)
9 Charming as A Midsummer Night's Dream? (to) ti The look of the innocent astronomer perhaps (6-4)
15 Bill's introductions are necessary before one saunters about (9) x7 Retreat that has a skin over the exit (7)
18 Heroine of a double No drama? (7)
19 Like Sheridan's Lydia presumably (7)
20 Prudent but intriguing (7)
23 The Psalmist's oboe (5) Solution next week
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