2 FEBRUARY 1968, Page 29

Crosswordno.1311

Across 1 'Nonsense!' say the holders of the documents (6) 4 A loud and articulate kind of society (7) 10 Minus by inference? (7) 11 Psephologist's mathematical problem concerns a foreign nobleman (7) 12 A write-up for one of those drum-major girls? (10) 13 Yearn to see the girl (4) 15 One may turn sour when it's troublesome (7) 17 Burden with work on the papers (7) 19 A tenor's in the making in this old boy (7) 21 Comparatively plenty of ozone here in North Africa presumably! (7) 23 Birds at play? (4) 24 No sport in the composing room? (4, 2, 4) 27 Such a waste of water! (7) 28 Hotly questioned (7) 29 'And the Man of Blood was there With his long — hair' (Macaulay) (8) 30 Place of incidental intelligence! (6) Down 1 Employed by Nick Bottom and Silas Marner, doubtless (4-5) 2 For the over-forties on the courts! (7) 3 Oast containing prepared cereals? (6, 4) '5 It's set down firmly, no doubt, with New Year resolution (5, 4) 6 Belinda's became a star (4) 7 'That demmed, — Pimpernel' (7) 8 Pauline fellow-traveller (5) 9 He's a turn, Mrs H. Ward's William (4) 14 Font-work? (10) 16 One would not seek the infallible knight in Barking (3, 6)

18 'We shall never —,' said The Voice (9) 20 Arithmetic book? (7)

22 Hcdcra all dressed, as for the old tower (3-4) 23 Musicologist in the greenwood (5) 25 '—, he that kisses my wife is my friend' (Shakespeare) (4) 26 Short volume by Wilkie Collins? (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword oo. 1310. Across: 1 Relinquished 9 Dim .nsion 10 Ghent 11 Uproar 12 Pinnacle 13 Tithes 15 Plas ics 18 Ganglion 19 Snored 21 Tea-cakes 23 Chaste 26 Water 27 Outstrips 28 Swashbuckler. Down; 1 Redoubt 2 'Amur 3 Nonpareil 4 Unit 5 Sun-dlals 6 Elgin 7 Letters 8 Melchior 14 Tentacle 16 Synthetic 17 Covetous 18 csiemay 20 Dresser 22 Arrow 24 Still 25 Stub.