24 JANUARY 1970, Page 26

Crossword 1414

Across I Sound standard (7, 5) 9 Literary careerist (9) 10 'Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit The of beauty I remember yet' (Dryden) (5) 11 Instruction superfluous to exponents of mini fashions? (6) 12 Half Moon Street? (8) 13 Bucolic is curt to a degree (6) 15 Drinks generally bring profits; cheap at the price! (8) 18 Very fetching to see those theatrical boys forming round a circle (8) 19 The Scarlet Letter, for example? (6) 21 We want Abramstown quietly but im- mediately (8) 23 Pales as he gives an exhibition of sword- play (L) 26 'When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk — like a wave of the sea' (Yeats) (5) 27 I drink to that with feeling (9) 28 He gets a diplomatic welcome (7, 5) Down 1 Drink for a snob? (7)

2 'As proper men as ever trod upon—leather' (I. Caesar) (5)

3 Ninon takes a mixed gin, putting inside! (9) 4 All for one and one for all? That's it, mate! (4) 5 August beard (8)

6 Manages the vestments (5)

7 Chides rodent among Yeats's busy gatherers (7)

8 'Trip no further, pretty —' (T. Night) (8)

14 London music for Fragonard's lady at Hertford House? (8) 16 Harvest collection? (9) 17 They should have a good couchside manner (8) 18 What, no buss? That's a bad mistake! (7) 20 Old-time criminals didn't find police dogs here in London (7) 22 'He looked again, and found it was His sister's husband's —' (Carroll) (5) 24 Kim shows a claw (5) 25 Francois answers in the negative shortly (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1413. Across. 1 Bake- well 5 Stared 9 Modulate 10 Slopes 12 Eremite 13 Nattier 14 Egalitarians 17 Capabilities 22 Aspirin 23 Tweedle 24 Nearer 25 Fortunes 26 Laymen 27 Assassin. Down: 1 Bumper 2 Kid- let 3 Welding 4 Let well alone 6 Telstar 7 Replicas 8 Distress II Institutions 15 Scrannel 16 Epiphany 18 Burmese 19 Electra 20 Adonis 21 Person.