26 JANUARY 1968, Page 29

Crosswordno.1310

Across 1 Squire held in, eventually gave up (12) 9 'Without -, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost' (Milton) (9) 10 The start of a good gallop! (5) 11 Leonine chaos? (6) 12 Aspire here (8) 13 Decimal rents (6) 15 Cats slip making malleable synthetics (8) 18 Leo follows the mob, becoming a bundle of nerves (8) 19 Drones make it and did it (6) 21 These are taken without ale (3-5) 23 Like Diana, and her quarry, by the sound of it (6) 26 Back about law for the horse (5) 27 How a night-club entertainer gets the better of her rivals? (9) 28 Blush %%reeks a bully (12) Down I Call into question again in place of defence (7) 2 The wall, monsieur, is where to find the monkey-like creature (5) 3 Was this Eve's apple? (9) 4 Such a singular thing (4)

5 Summer-timeaiige l ubleco becomes a man o3-51

6 N stone (5) 7 They serve, said Millament, to pin up one's

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8 The king who brought gold (8) 14 A lent etcetera is a touching thing (8)

16 Built up to be like the real thing (9)

17 Unneighbourly! (8) 18 The Dublin method? (7) 20 Backstage furniture? (7) 22 'Every - that flies feels the attraction of earth' (Longfellow) (5)

24 Static liquor apparatus (5)

25 Bust so gets put out (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crosswind no. 1309. Across: I Bleached 5 Stadia 9 Osier-bed 10 Vicuna 12 Deane 13 Stringed 15 Delicatessen 18 Billingsgate 23 Outspans 24 Willow 26 Raisin 27 Obsidian 28 Dogate 29 Ateliers. Down: I Broods 2 Elijah 3 Carbide 4 Ever 6 Thin ice 7 Druggist 8 Amandinc 11 Strange 14 Wigging 16 Abhorred 17 Flitting 19 Imprint 20 Trivial 21 Aldine 22 Swings 25 Abet. . .