28 MARCH 1969, Page 29

Crossword no. 1371

Across 1 Flowery vessels in the dairy (10) 6 Indian coinage muddle assumes Homeric property (4) 10 Dial it back for the time on 51; there's a restriction (5) 11 Up came the tide of liquid flowers (4-5) 12 Numerical following following the conse- quences (9) 13 Even so (5) 14 It's centrally orientated (6, 4) 16 Listen, this must be the site for a castle in the air (4) 18 Behold and exist like.the earpiece (4) , 20 This is John all over, when it's raining (5-5) 23 The beating of the beans (5)

24 Officer commanding at present happening (9)

27 This is the time of the uninitiated (9) 28 It's between the magpie and the bull (5) 29 The doctor's doppelganger unmasked in the park (4) 30 Testimonials extracted from screen about iron (10) Down 1 As science workshop goes back to the wood (5) 2 "Tis one thing to be -, Escalus, Another thing to fall' (Measure for Measure) (7) 3 Railway that is ten makes completely con- fused (8)

4 Atmospheric return to copper: see court (5) 5 You can get it for 5d now! (9)

7 The chance the junkie takes (3-4)

8 Care for the French to provide one like the great barrier (5, 4)

9 We set out for the taste of honey (5) 14 A cow-poke's grog? (4-5) 15 Bale up and talk down, just to complicate things (9) 17 Devious cheers abroad over victory in Europe for having gamesmanship (8) 19 Kipling's best (7) 21 Mighty watery (7) 22 'But he'll remember with advantages What - he did that day' (Henry V) (5) 25 Where Theseus was amazed! (5) 26 1 rest, it exhausts (5) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1370. Across: 1 Vie. toria Line 9 Landscape 10 Roots II Anneal 12 Sheep-pen 13 Enroll IS Brigades 18 Damascus 19 Primer 21 Congress 23 Abuses 26 Mains 27 Indelible 28 Entertainers. Down: 1 Voltage 2 Canon 3 Obstacles 4 Ivan 5 Lee-shore 6 Norse 7 Assents 8 Poppadum 14 Romantic 16 Garibaldi 17 Sunshine 18 Decimal 20 Rashers 22 Rosin 24 Sable 25 Edit.