Crossword no. 1358

Across

I Is conflict this songster's theme? (7) 5 Bad, some foreigners would say, a hazard to shipping on the Indian coast (7) 9 Pulses have a sporting advantage for destruc- tive hordes (7)

10 Fencing, in the style of Thersites (7)

11 Young Shakespeare's marker by the sound of it? (6-4) 12 Nothing more than a lake (4) 13 A catch, it's in the bag! (3) 14 Result of collusion between butcher and baker? (11) 17 One might seem to travel thus without a Baedeker (11) 19 Ivy alone (3) 20 Vipers akin to literary afterthought (4)

22 How Wordsworth recollected emotion (10) 26 Much ado to discover Benedick's lady (7)

27 Claim symbolic silver metamorphosed-It's marvellous (7)

28 Go over the line again (7) 29 The maid of Belmont (7) Down

1 How Britannia greets her subjects? (5)

2 Rage needs replacement for turncoats (9)

3 Those departing are aids to uplift, we hear (7) 4 He gets up in step (5)

5 Sea-seasoned (9)

6 Chief, suffering an enraging Beethovian loss, makes do with a beastly hideout (4) 7 'Society became my glittering -, And airy hopes my children' (Wordsworth) (5) 8 Went from east to west, as the astronomer would say (9) 13 'When in the world I liv'd, I was the world's -' (Love's Labour's Lost) (9)

15 Under cane exhibits fortitude (9) 16 A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles (9)

18 'Then let thy love be - than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent' (Twelfth Night) (7)

21 Lombardic river to be sedentary gets set in place (5) 23 Ladies only produce a name (5) 24 Betrayal taking place on the Black Sea (5) 25 Once a place to harp on (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1357. Across: 1 Fur- nace 5 Explain 9 Scald 10 Entrances 11 Ormolu 12 Arethusa 14 Notes 15 Ready-made 18 Dal- matian 20 Lapse 22 Lowlands 24 Pomona 26 Aeroplane 27 Didot 28 Andiron 29 Augurer. Down : I Festooned 2 Readmit 2 Andalusia 4 Even 5 Entertains 6 Plant 7 Anchusa 8 Nesta 13 Brain- drain 16 Yellow-dog 17 Ever after 19 Lowered 21 Plodder 22 Llama 23 Asper 25 Beta.