Crossword

No. 1469 DAEDALUS

No prize is offered this week. The solution will appear in next week's issue.

Across

1 Fish-glue? A delicacy from Yarmouth, no doubt (7, 5)

9 Meagre engagements to produce a plum (9) 10 One great way to shout 'Hold on' (5)

11 The French round off title. They laid it on at Limoges! (6)

12 A plus (8) 13 Drives, passably, like one of Gilbert's police- inen perhaps? (4, 2) 15 They are above the air (8) 18 Mum's getting on, but that's rather hurtful (8) 19 A rugger man for sure! (6) 21 Young lady removed, we hear, in error (8) 23 Let-outs for mountaineers (6) 26 Seek right for the kame (5) 27 Trace exit and so set free (9) 28 Lost mine as it were among good characters (12) Down 1 It could be awful Ursula? (7) 2 Luv a duck, it's Greek ! (5)

3 There's nothing tough about this business offering (9) 4 'And keep you in the — of your affec- tions' (Hamlet) (4)

5 Unkempt beard at poetical sundown puts Angus in his place (8)

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6 'Until his very 'steps have left a (Byron) (5)

7 I'm beset and confused so bright and early (7)

8 Cool little Mr Dcronda gets the come-on for the dance (8) 14 Designate eastern liquor by one's own title

(8) 16 Motorland in bloom (9)

17 I set rent at a premium (8) 18 'Of faery — met in forest wide By knight of Logres or of Lyones' (Milton) (7)

20 Arc they essential equipment for a flagging Mrs Mopp? (7)

22 'But I, being young and foolish, with her would not —' (Yeats) (5)

24 Pascal appears at the opera in disguise (5)

25 Such is Macavity, the mighty one (4)

Solution next week