25 APRIL 1970, Page 31

Crossword 1427

I Get rid of the receiver for protection? (7) 5 Falcons has e their favourite pursuits (7) 9 'The never taste of death but once' (J. Cursor) (7) 10 It happened when one wrote in one's own blood presumably, having taken little (7) 11 Light performance, but hot stuff too! (5, 5) 12 This is not Strauss's blue river (4) 14 Is it the duty of the linkman to join up? (11) 13 Samuel's master among the felines (3) 17 Fancied Scot. so appropriated same (I I) 19 Kinsman conies back again (3) 20...Fie's a skittish foal (4) 22 Sent for a country holiday? (10) 26 One has left the North behind here for the Italian plain (7) 27 Pie cut up and gone to one of a later genera- tion 171

28 It's the North among foreign pupils that pros-ides teams (7)

29 Clothes-conscious medical student? (7) Down 1 Must be replaced, of course (5) 2 Old wine is of near final extraction (9) 3 No one takes to fashion like Arkwright! (7)

4 There', more to come (5) 5 Result of a worker getting on top of his work (9)

6 Rummy lot of graduates! (4) 7 'All — excelling, Seat of pleasures and of loses' (Dryden) (5) 8 Avoids the tradesmen's entrance? (4-5) 13 That 4 in a letter? (9) 15 'Moonlight on the Yare' for one? (9) 16 Such climbers discover the road to debts (9) 18 Refuse to do your grammar (7) 21 It's Mabel's turn for a ride (5) 23 Transpose the finish to be a fashion (5) 24 'In a — flighted December' (Keats) (5) 25 Damned rage may land you in these straits (4) Solution nest neck

Solution to Crossword 1426. Across: 1 Circus lates 6 Bobs 10 Puffs 11 Left, right 12 Anno- tates 13 Wyatt 14 Resolution 16 Idea 18 Loaf 20 Cat's cradle 23 Trump 24 Kittenish 27 Otter- burn 28 hied 29 Sods 30 Stragglers. Down: 1 Copra 2 Refines 3 Unsettle 4 Allot 5 Effusions 7 On guard 8 Set at ease 9 Brows 14 Relations 15 Track suit 17 Breeding 19 Abutted 21 Deicide 22 Spurs 25 Tonga 26 Hides.