Crossword no.1375

Across 1 Where the Little Flowers grew (6) 4 Top skaters get a treat (3-5)

10 This is no puzzle to them (7) II Sicilian cat family (7) 12 Helpful bouquet for the lovelorn (6-4) 13 Likewise a change of time (4) 15 Third of the hawks (7)

17 A hundred need it and are thereby tempted (7) 19 Evidently there was a lady in the pub (7) 21 Summer in Osawa will produce some good yarns (7)

23 '0 lyric Love, half angel and half --1 (Browning) (4)

24 Anna goes it and turns out to arouse oppo- sition (10) 27 The life-giving device of Mrs Porter's foot- bath (7) 28 'Had we but world enough, and time, This —, Lady, were no crime' (Marvell) (7) 29 Fruitful answer to thirst (8)

30 Quite simply hang on! (6)

Down 1 Patience contains their flowery band (9) 2 Bordering on the material (7)

3 Sights for tired eyes (10)

5 Vespasian's vast amusement palace (9) 6 It is straight in the line of flight (4)

7 It laces, and this makes up for expansive action (7) 8 Who's the lady? Yes and no! (5) 9 'Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the — From her propriety' (Othello) (4)

14 A solid sort gets into print (10)

16 The hero city that was once St Peter's (9) 18 Penny speeds in, having dealt out (9) 20 Capital instrument for audition? (7) 22 Vine tea is the result of confusing artlessness (7) 23 National transport system gets on to something boring, causing a disturbance (5)

25 Coy entrance? (4)

26 Knock out with a real eyeful! (4)

Solution nex week

Solution to Crossword no. 1374. Across: 1 Lent- lily 5 Alecto 9 Devotion 10 Howlet 12 Ensure 13 Broccoli 15 Clothes-brush IS Agricultural 23 Tiger-cat 24 Abacus 26 Wampum 27 Distance 28 Yonder 29 Bedstead. Down: 1 Ladder 2 Nivose 3 Lateral 4 Loop 6 Lion cub 7 Colloquy 8 Outright 11 Croesus 14 Italian 16 Castaway 17 Dragoman 19 Carouse 20 Arbutus 21 Sconce

22 Ascend 25 Wine.