Crossword 1436

Across

1 The Spanish in panic get the bird! (7) 5 Keep going! (7) 9 Blake's pen (5) 10 Not that the billiards player Could be accused of dishonesty in so doing! (9) 11 Farewell measure? (2. 4)

12 It's obviously an inside job (8) 14 Is about to compete in the climbers' classes (5) 15 Its passengers are a patient lot (9) 18 Broken rest after play for punters (8) 20 Talkative like some minorities (5) 22 It's a hard matter to survey the island (8) 24 Genial address to Father William? (3, 3) 26 Fichus and collars? (9) 27 It's in the caramel emitting a lovely odour (5) 28 Train policeman? (7)

29 Might give the right to send upstairs! (7)

Down

1 Fairy might sing in slightly tipsy fashion, it's so cold! (9)

2 Folksy garland for a siren (7) 3 Settlers Who are sticklers for punctuation?

(9)

4 Kitty's asleep (4)

5 Support the winner and get the loser! (6, 4) 6 Tablet of the upiight (5) 7 Where to go fot bridge and dancing (7)

8 That fortunate Scottish hero (5) 13 'Not all these, laid in bed — Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave' (Henry 10

(10)

16 The cherry, arboreal-wise, according to Housman (9)

17 It grew in elegant confusion round Milton's window (9) 19 One in the eye! (7) 21 Free as opposed to fact (7) 22 Sugar-sticks? (5) 23 Just the car for the meeting (5)

25 It's all a pack of lies here (4)

Solution next week

Solution to Crossword 1435. Across: 1 Bilked 4 Barbaric 8 Bad grace 10 Staten 12 Awash 13 Moonshine 14 Logan 16 Ladies' man 17 Per- former 19 Bodes 21 Pender.nis 22 Wotan 24 Violet 25 Estimate 26 Reenters 27 Agists. Down: 1 Bobtail 2 Lydia 3 Earthen 5 Batiste 6 Retrinuned 7 Condemn 9 Complement 11 Gold- crests 15 Girandole 17 Popover 18 Overeat 19 Bowling 20 Singers 23 Tears.