16 JUNE 1967, Page 28

Crosswordno.1278

Across 1 Puss gets the mint, at a pinch (6) 4 Tortoiseshell (8) 9 Show off a parry (6) 10 Where to be centre in Birmingham (4, 4) 12 When they meet there are limits (8) 13 The heraldic beast is very changed in the back- ward north-west (6) 15 Handy bridge (4) 16 Sails with a revolutionary beginning (10) 19 Gong is audible to a few and is so unneces- sarily interfering (10)

20 Go west, indirectly, and find a mess (4)

23 *-- of small numbers go benignly potty' (Auden) (6) 25 Do they produce ringing applause? (8) 27 Isolationist? (8)

28 In France to get fatigued is complete (6) 29 Clutch these to start saving with (4-4)

30 Remain sedate, we hear (6) Down 1 Legal tender? (7) 2 One of the fortune-telling pack (5, 4)

3 Inside inside the western islands (6) 5 A tot for Lily (4)

6 Sally's kind of mog? (5-3) 7 The state of Molly's barrow-load (5) 8 For example nines produce units of power (7) 11 Speed is misplaced; show nothing but con- tempt (7) 14 The musical Saint put them into carnival time (7) 17 The best place for brinkmanship (9) 18 He died in the drink (8) 19 One with six ducks (7) 21 Occidental London (4, 3)

22 Shoot a line and get the instrument (6) 24 Farewells in depressed areas (5) 26 The mountain man of music (4)