27 DECEMBER 1969, Page 27

Crossword 1410

Across 1 It's complimentary to send one's kind remembrances to a right-winger (12) 9 Barnstormer in a silk hat carries too mach weight (3-6)

10 I dial wrongly, what a story! (5) II A fair part of the golf-course (6)

12 The little fish moves audibly when experts arrive (8)

13 Servant carrying a tray (6) 15 Greville's had all the talents (8)

IS Next week for this. gentle reader! (8) 19 The Artful Dodger? (6)

21 Shavian eponymous co-hero with youthful appeal 18) 23 Wager about Parson that he doesn't get

the rate for the job (6)

26 Big birds conceal a sneer (5) 27 'The lost —'s dream under the hill' (Blake) (9)

28 The stickler has his value (12) Down I A little breeze concerned with chestnuts? (4-3) 2 Mrs. Elton's 3 So Bill's passed!

4 Bathes by candlelight

5 Formidable (8) 6 Superfluous birds (5) 7 A vest for 8 Took in in 14 Like most of gone amiss (3-5) 16 North Cape?

17 'The soldier (Bagehot) (8) 18 Relatives in 20 Comes back 22 Paradoxically, by it! (5) 24 'Where what won' (Wordsworth) 25 Penny has a Solution next favourite pair to provide Miss Blaise (9) of today hospital about he he party, week (9) an abstracted the contents grove (5) (4) of bluejackets perches (7) manner

is not a

(7) dramatic numbers who gets up doth most — of Pandora's in charge for these (8) box, — animal'

comes

(7) down must be

(4) (5) very decorative Solution to Crossword 1409. Across: 1 Palace 4 Isabella 10 Reclaim II Organic 12 Broom- stick 13 Busy 15 Sterner 17 Inverse 19 Shelled 21 Garment 23 Ashy 24 Dishwasher 27 Orlando 28 Catania 29 Resister 30 Plushy. Down: 1 Parabasis 2 Lactose 3 Charmingly 5 Scorching 6 Bags 7 Languor 8 Archy 9 Omit 14 Overmantel 16 Ruddigore 18 Es'erhazy 20 Exhales 22 Ecninus 23 Amour 25 Hock 26 Ends.

(We regret that one clue for this crossword was omitted through a printer's error.)