22 AUGUST 1970, Page 25

Crossword 1443

Across 1 Cloth tops call forth censures (8) 5 A sphere fixed in ice (6) 9 Tie up that garden intruder, polygonum (8) 10 No pot-hunter, this racehorse! (6) 12 Flight between landings (6) 13 Waltz addict? (8) 15 Decidedly not the man for John Donne! (12) 18 A word never heard on the range (12) 23 Plastered but in a proper way (8) 24 'The billows and bright' (Carroll) (6) 26 Do they give comfort in chill November's fogs? (6) 27 Those Broadway Boys are rich within, but getting red (8) 28 Showing partiality off the beaten track? (6) 29 Planets' creator takes one German home perhaps (8) Down I Burst out about nothing in a vigorous way (6) 2 His Nibs? (6) 3 Forward misses in Chancery! (7) 4 Work and worry (4) 6 Gibbons in the forest? (7) 7 Like sad comedown from the sublime (8) 8 Suffered by hilldwellers encountering a saint climbing up? (8) 11 Gathering of particular interest to Omar Khayyam? (7) 14 Aspersion cast upon a revolutionary by a violinist? (7) 16 Pat reads wildly of accessories (8)

17 Attributed to a writer with a penny (8)

19 Exceed the limit 14-3) 20 She gets her own back! (7) 21 Edgar Allen burning at heart yet civilised (6) 22 He's apt to make a lethal display in a feudal way (6) 25 In general to take a second part (4) Solution next week Solution o Crossword 1442. Across: 1 Blowcd 4 Shifting 10 Sutures 11 Refiner 12 Rats 13 De- ployment 16 Deltas 17 Resists 20 Foresaw 21 Starry 24 Postilions 25 Bran 27 Ensiled 29 Brasses 30 Straying 31 Beasts. Down: 1 Bestride 2 Out at elbows 3 Ebro 5 Heralded 6 Fifty-fifty 7 Ion 8 Gareth 9 Asses 14 Enterprises 15 Materially 18 Basildon 19 Hypnosis 22 Uppers 23 Snobs 26 Mare.