Crossword no. 1281
Across 1 Intrigues to get titular accompaniments to discoveries (8) 5 Viticulturist with a Scotch negative for one and the other (6) 9 The Devil it is! (8) 10 A snack for Fido in summer? (3-3) 12 Place of a hunting ballad? (5) 13 It involves nine tries to get here for a drink (9) 14 Sweetheart will go a mile by sea to get a good tiet,(4-4-4) 18 A trying quality (12) 21 Lucia was his Scottish bride (9) 23 Friend of Job, he was rooted in politics (5) 24 His demise was the subject of Goldsmith's elegy (3, 3) 25 Are the committee's proceedings writ small? (8) 26 Addict of cash-on-delivery ensuring secrecy (6) 27 Pretty blue result of a true turnover in the annual general meeting (8) Down 1 French stubborn at cards? (6) 2 Eros at Ambridge (6) 3 Imagine, nothing to pay for meditation! (5-4) 4 Shadowy forecasters (6, 6) 6 To lose a turn might be bitter (5) 7 Wilted legumes are greeted with cheerful irreverence (3, 5) 8 Get exaltation from a lark? (4, 4)
1 1 A ,demon girl is naturally one with a bad influence (12)
15 Will's agent is holding a money order for the revenue (9) 16 It's general among pied mice (9) 17 Calypso's home-town? (8) 19 Eupeptic abstract? (6) 20 One of the three little maids from school (3-3) 22 Animals take to writing? Buz. buz! (5) Solution next week
Solution to Crossword no. 1280. Across. 1 Break-downs
6 Scut 10 Farce 11 Invention 12 Spin-drier 13 Salop 14 Digression 16 Eden DI Sack 20 Freebooter 23 Leaps 24 Alexander 27 Contested 28 Crows 29 Dell 30 Accrescent. Down. 1 Buffs 2 Earring 3 Knee-deep 4 Oribi 5 Nevermore
7 Chilled 8 Tin-opener 9 Gnash 14 Displaced 15 Sarcastic 17 Romances 19 Channel 21 Tadpole 22 Aster 25 Elder 26 Reset
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