27 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 20

Crossword

No. 1470 DAEDALUS

No prize is offered this week. The solution will appear in next week's issue.

Across

1 Fodder instead of time. Cap that! (6)

4 Where one might suitably dance to a haunt- ing melody? (4-4) 10 Play about robots getting most muddled in elevated place (7) 11 'Great — follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants' (Cowper) (7) 12 Rose in love (4) 13 Going all fancy, which might lead to a telling-off, conversely (8, 2) 16 How awful, Melpomene's at it again! (6) 17 The Round House (7) 20 Red bird's little home gives song, so dawns the answer (7) 21 For going on the town there is one in the town (that's something to sing about) (6) 24 I tot a hundred tunes to make it up (10) 25 'There is too much — and she is too old' (Kipling) (4) 27 Join her itinerary getting a chance to suc- ceed (7) 29 Company certificate involved with right, that's right (7) 30 31 1 2 3 5 Down Granny and Roman in haunt folk (8) Knobby ordered about Drives to drink, like 18, The King's return (11) how the

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With (Milton) gold altogether aerial (8) centric (4)

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and right eccentric scribbled Can change, for Dad and — sphere o'er' and is old his like? (8)

6 Observe this form in camera, for instance (10)

7 Cheer for the Don (3) 8 Drink? Me? Turn it up! It's on the frieze (6)

9 Clever Christopher, or should it be Alec? (5) 14 It's next to uncleanliness, the needlewomen might have said (11)

15 It's a long way from here to Jean o' Groats! (10) 18 A groat it might seem is enough for such a stirring person (8) 19 Not at all like Mrs Lot! (8) 22 Understudying? (6) 23 'Damn your principles! — to your party' (Disraeli) (5) 26 Swallows became bats over here, observed Lawrence poetically (4) 28 Bird bird (3)