21 MARCH 1969, Page 37

Crossword no.1370

Across 1 L.T.E.'s latest plum, but fast, nevertheless (8, 4) 9 Brown study for a garden. perhaps? (9) 10 Arnold Wesker's radical work (5) 11 Alan in French discovers temper (6) 12 Is the enclosure instrumental in woolly writing? (5-3) 13 Sign on with the bakers? (6) 15 Gad sir, be somewhat more explicit when de- scribing the general's commands (8) 18 The rose-red city? (8) 19 The volume with which to get explosive results in elementary learning? (6) 21 A get-together comprising twelve dozen plus a fraction of a hundred (8)

23 Sea turns round public transport to make fat deceitful practices (6)

26 Hazards of the high seas (5) 27 I lie, blend these and its ineradicable (9) 28 What amusing people they must bel (12) Down 1 The river, for example, is turned to produce shocking force (7) 2 The sound of guns proves the rule (5) 3 Company stables rebuilt to make hindrances (9) 4 Search in vain for that terrible old Russian (4) 5 Lose here, unravelled upon a sheltered beach (3-5) 6 Those magnetic people? (5) 7 Audible uprisings one agrees (7) 8 Dad speechless over the oriental biscuit (8)

14 'But oh! that deep — chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!' (Coleridge) (8)

16 The revolutionary who took the biscuit (9)

17 'Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The — is a glorious birth' (Words- worth) (8)

18 There's some point to this numerical system (7) 20 Is it taking a bit of a risk bringing home the bacon like this? (7) 22 It's to ease the drawing of a bow (5) 24 Give the brush to heraldic black (5) 25 Turn the tide and put into shape, literally (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1369. Across: I Emptied 5 Demi-god 9 Over-run 10 Niveous I I Eradicated 12 Fell 13 UFO 14 Singularity 17 Past masters 19 Pod 20 Pigs 22 Cassiopeia 26 Leaping 27 Re- posed 28 Rotunda 29 Spondee. Down: I Elope 2 Predators 3 In ruins 4 Donna 5 Dance tune 6 Move 7 Grove 8 Displayed 13 Unpopular 5 Nos- talgia 16 Impressed 18 Scorpio 21 Grant 23 Sorts 24 Addle 25 Kiln.