17 MARCH 1967, Page 21

Crossword no. 1265

Across

1 Sweet product of dairy and distillery? (12)

9 Brown's capable stock-in-trade (9) 10 Felix the lightweight (5) 11 Florence's sisters (6) 12 Action ahead means of a nominal change (8) 13 The team at opening and closing time (6) 15 Corrosively seductive imagery? (8) 18 Love in the gallery? Some story! (8) 19 Baskets with fish in, and rightly so (6) 21 The walk of the feathered prisoner (4-4) 23 Sir Thomas who wouldn't come in (6) 26 Small foot is accomplice to the felony (5) 27 See back in after late morning, for those under scrutiny (9)

-28 Tearing a strip off the couturier? (8, 4)

Down

1 Discover equilibrium in the library (7)

2 'They kept the noiseless — of their way' (Gray) (5)

3 What Faberge went to work on? (6, 3) 4 Mark of the pinnipedia (4)

5 To Alegi Ihe,Fregch„..scrambled .pancake. (8) • . 6 Hamlet's metamorphic meteorological phen- omenon (5) .7 Still the sapper makes it in the garden (7) 8 Proclaim unfamiliar Miss Laurie overweight! (8) 14 Instrumental in negative expansion (8) 16 Etonian activity at Lord's, to the groundsman's horror? (9) 17 Hogarthian advance (8) 18 Ducal tree? (7)

20 Let it stand my boy, and get a hat! (7)

22 Gloriana follows after Cleopatra's beast to pro- vide fare (5) 24 I'd go east to find a west coast saint (5)

25 'Bring wine, 0—, for a breaking heart' (Hafiz) (4)