12 SEPTEMBER 1970, Page 25

Crossword 1446

Across 1 Speech! Speech! (10) 6 Change back pussy foots (4) 10 Arnold's wandering scholar (5) 11 Pen girl if found doing some light removal work (9) 12 It's unnecessary to reveal that direction- finders get the point (8) 13 Polish off auditory device to provoke love (6) 15 His nibs the knob (4) 16 Curvaceous support—that's waggish! (4) 17 There's nothing old about this post (5) 20 Adopt a pose for a lab storyteller (5) 21 The Spectator's bound to do it! (4)

22 There's no slump in the aviation industry by the sound of it (4) 24 'And the sheen of their — was like stars on the sea' (Byron) (6)

26 Advance by three (8) 29 Oriental warnings giving reply (9) 30 Ad-men make good (5)

31 Agrees, how capital! (4)

32 Literary Sir Clifford (10) Down 1 No doubt a goblin got in with the gothic architect (5) 2 Holds back the second edition? (9) 3 Sails with crowned heads? (6) 4 Records audible efforts of the weavers, per- haps? (10) 5 Ivy's birds (4) 7 'The moving moon went up the sky, And no where did —' (Coleridge) (5) 8 That well-preserved fairy (5-4) 9 Write to the muses at home on the range (7) 14 Craftsman (10) 15 Bird on board (9) 18 The three-course loaf (9)

19 Had a practice bout, but even that was rigged (7)

23 Relative, in a manly sort of way (6) 25 Cruel old marquis gets a touch of the orient and is comforted (5) 27 'Murmur, a little —, how Love fled' (Yeats) (5) 28 It's not to be sneezed at (more than once, that is) (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword 1445. Across: 1 Reddish 5 Steamer 9 Gales 10 Pedagogue II Trivia 12 Attracts 14 Waste 15 Traveller 18 Yardstick 20 Earth 22 Mandrill 24 Marcia 26 Caledonia 27 Ictus 28 Saddens 29 Mandril. Down: I Right away 2 Dollies 3 Inspirers 4 Hips 5 Sidetracks 6 Eager 7 Magical 8 Reeds 13 Striplings 16 Elevation 17 Rehearsal 19 Rankled 21 Reciter 22 Macks 23 Ridge 25 Balm.