18 APRIL 1970, Page 26

Crossword 1426

Across 1 Puts it about that the distinguished departed are in vulgar circumstances! (10) 6 Bows for your proverbial uncle? (4) 10 Extols jam containers (5) 11 Marching orders? (4, 5) 1/ Comments that Ann turns to a set-back (9) 13 Way out and a Pussyfoot, this architect (5) 14 Determination concerning the answers (10) 16 Brain-wave during a ride at Newmarket (4) 18 The bread of idleness presumably (4) 20 Where Tabitha Twitchit had her family en- meshed? (4, 6) 23 Flourish a good card (5) 24 Tom's behaviour in 20 doubtless was (9) 27 Tarka by the stream joined battle (9) 28 1 strove to look like Hedera (5) 29 'The — with our bayonets turning' (Wolfe) (4) 30 Wanderers who are Avoca. (10) Down 1 A bit of coconut for policeman and artillery- man (5) 2 Improves when concerned with penalties to be paid (7) 3 Disturb on a French bench (8) 4 Everybody's to turn to and give a share (5) 5 Streams of poetic effort (9) 7 Where to find flag, whistle, and lantern? Watch it! (2, 5) 8 Unsettled estate oversea to be made com- fortable (3, 2. 4) 9 Problematically knitted by those who read desultorily! (5) 14 Tale-telling in the family circle (9) 15 Please find a costume for the lapping trainee "(5-4) 17 What concern is it of the thremmatologist? (8) 19 One behaved like a goat when leant upon (7) 21 Murder on Olympus? (7) 22 Hot down Tottenham way (5) 25 Got an equipage overturned in the island (5) 26 Caches whose contents are a bit skinny! (5) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1425. Across: 1 Bubble 4 Dulcinea 10 Nearest 11 Toll-bar 12 Ovid 13 In two minds 16 Beggar 17 Artiste 20 Celeste 21 Severn 24 Longchamps 25 Blue 27 Good egg 29 Hairnet 30 Twin sets 31 Seesaw. Down: 1 Buncombe 2 Bearing rein 3 Leer 5 Unto- ward 6 Columbines 7 Nib 8 Arrest 9 Stint 14 Netherlands 15 Watercress 18 Straight 19 Undertow 22 Flight 23 Spahi 26 Vice 28 Obi.