22 DECEMBER 1967, Page 24

City crossword

LOTHBURY

Across 1 Central bank? (7) 5, 10 Good tunes still played on this old fiddle (7, 7) 9 Having fed late, impose restraint (7) 10 See 5 across 11 Difficulties, then cash, in the metal market (7, 3)

12 Not all the House gets it (4)

13 United Carlo Gatti Stevenson Slaters' contri- bution to the freeze (3) 14 Schoolboys and h.p. customers want them (6, 5) 17 Accommodates funds overnight? On the con- trary (4, 5, 2) 19 Credit? lust a twitch (3) 20 Bankers incline (4) 22 One blusher in Rothschilds or St Stephen's Green (10)

26 Serious effort to earn SET (7) 27 Errors and omissions not excepted (7) 28 One not deluded by gold figures or disappointed by trade figures (7) 29 Law worn to a discount (3, 4)

Down 1 Royston has the black box but the General has the touch (5) 2 Dividends should not get it for preference (9) 3 Unenlightened self-interest (7) 4 Tides out for caterers (5) 5 Not how to avoid tax (9) 6 Select the currency expert (4) .7 Unemployable (2, 3) 8 The value of money (9) 13 Trim spore of payments-unbalancers (9) 15 Fibre? It's unnatural (9) 16 Leaving work with top hat and gold watch, thus approaches, say, Bournemouth (7, 2) 18 Soapy when accompanied by wager? Sounds authoritative (7) 21 Feel the urge in the mating season (5) 23 St Mary in the City is out at elbow—on the cheap side (2, 3) 24 Location of Krupp's canteen? (5) Solution next week