18 APRIL 1969, Page 37

Crossword no.1374

Across 1 Borrowed form of Wordsworth's golden flower? (4-4) 5 Unceasing Fury (6) 9 'The -- to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow' (Shelley) (8) 10 A bit of this must have got the Three Witches' brew off to a flying start! (6) 12 Run and see if they're about to make certain (6) 13 It can sprout purple passages in the kitchen garden (8) 15 With which to tidy up after an habitual dust- up? (7-5) 18 The sort of show for a proper field-day? (12) 23 Result of a cross between Smart's celestial felines? (5-3) 24 With which to frame an accountant perhaps (6) 26 Shell-money (6) 27 'If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of — run' (Kipling) (8) 28 That peasant who aroused Wenceslas's curi- osity (6) 29 Place of rest in place of rest (8) Down 1 One way up after serpentine descent (6) 2 Revolutionary snow time (6) 3 Prelate rallies showing something on the side (7) 4 Exit hole (4) 6 Little Leo (4, 3) 7 A case of plain speaking? (8) 8 Left in, directly balanced (8) 11 The typical rich man (7) 14 That musical girl in Algiers (7) 16 Maritime chuck-out (8) 17 Music-hall mother-in-law in disguise of a guide (8) 19 Our aces create a revel (7) 20 Ducal family tree? (7) 21 A head for fine drink? (6) 22 '0! for a Muse of fire that would The brightest heaven of invention' (King Henry V) (6) 25 In Which is Truth, the poet said (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1373. Across: I Brazen 4 Falkland 9 Sitter 10 Mounties 12 Unallied 13 Balham 15 Tree 16 Stentorian 19 Fascinates 20 Golf 23 Napkin 25 Requests 27 Astounds 28 Abadan 29 Larcener 30 Tea-set. Down: I Biscuit 2 Ant-eaters 3 Evenly 5 Avon 6 Kangaroo 7 Apish 8 Dustman 11 Best man 14 Angered 17 Ironsides 18 Ridicule 19 Fantail 21 Fastnct 22 Tumble 24 Pater 26 Idle.