26 MAY 1967, Page 28

Crossword no 1275

Across 1 Saucy frolics? (6) 4 Puts about about morning on the river (8) 9 Strip for a Scottish sailor (6) 10 Non-aggressive Ocean dweller? (8) 12 Spoony lot at the tea-table! (8) 13 'Ten thousand sweep over thee in vain' (Byron) (6) 15 Probable Victorian offspring? (4) 16 No advocate of holidays abroad (4-2-4) 19 Fishy diversion of a revolutionary (3, 7) 20 Party man? (4) 23 What a bounder did to get the widow's mite? (6) 25 The Granada Palace (8) 27 That two-edged sword! (8) 28 Forest maid (6) 29 Onomatopoeic whisper (8) 30 Improving as a punter! (6) Down I Wound the girl with it? (7) 2 Pound, lire wrapped together—pinched (9) 3 It is about deeds that one responds (6) 5 Hamlet's conscience-catcher (4) 6 Music for three? Do let us—with words, of course (8) 7 He is no 16 (5) 8 It comes up en masse for a Post-Impressionist (7) 11 Years of cricket (7) 14 They are bound to provide good music (7) 17 Revolutionary of the fall (9) 18 Clubman anxious to do 30 presumably (8) 19 Old widows (7) 21 Rearing a painter? (7) 22 Relish for a chum who had a meal (6) 24 Entreats soft beams (5) 26 A boat for Conrad or Maugham? (4)