15 AUGUST 1970, Page 25

Crossword 1442

Across I Depressed when retired, I'll be this! (6) 4 Making shirts for a change? (8) 10 Some theatrical displays send one into stitches (7) 11 Fireman with the golden touch? (7) 12 Piper's followers return with a twinkle (4)

13 Crazy about the Scottish affair resulting in an-extension (10)

16 Salted away in deposits (6) 17 Opposes upset female relatives (7) 20 Anticipated a warnitig proverb (7) 21 'She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and skies' (Byron) (6) 24 Horsemen who drive more than they ride (10) 25 ringal's tubby dog (4) 27 Greenery gets helped up in the tower (7) 29 When they get rubbed it's not necessarily to polish them (7) 30 Errant saint but radiating light (81 31 'There came a pair of very strange —' (As You Like It) (6) Dow n I Browning's last was this when he did it (11) 2 Arms akimbo! (3, 2.6) 3 There's a bore in the river (4) 5 How Chanticleer got to work chivalrously? 181

6 L - L (5-5)

7 The particle appears in position (3) 8 In spite of biblical warning he gets about in Gath! (6) 9 This bridge is a formidable obstacle! (5)

14 'And of great pith and moment' (Hostile') (II)

15 Mum and I get a friend, thereby becoming of importance (10) 18 Isabella's pot plant gets put on in a new town (8) 19 It gets a sleepy answer (8) 22 What, no soles? (6) 23 A book of Thackeray's (5) 26 Sea-horse? (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1441. Across: I Dispatch 5 Elders 9 Limiting 10 Poteen 12 Egoist 13 Melodist 15 Antimacassar 18 Passepartout 23 Idolater 24 Stella 26 Gossip 27 Dominion 28 Riding 29 Hindhead. Down: I Dulcet 2 Samson 3 Artisan 4 Cane 6 Leonora 7 Elegiast 8 Sena- tors 11 Recants 14 Visages 16 Springer 17 Espoused 19 Evasion 20 Untried 21 Aldine 22 Warned 25 Gobi.