2 MAY 1969, Page 21

Crossword no.1376

Across

1 Border firework (6)

4 The dry ones of the poetic quartet (8)

8 Windsor wooer (8) 10 Poetic Elizabeth (6) 12 German eating place? (5) 13 'Fly fishing may be a very pleasant —' (Dr Johnson) (9) 14 Apocryphal father of an adventurous youth (5)

16 Bit part that is confused in affecting two parties (9) 17 He really is something in the City (4, 5) 19 Rests to rehabilitate the lock (5)

21 Easy-going corporal with a literary flair? (9) 22 Sharp accent (5) 24 No conifers, one supposes (6) 25 Scintillating type (8) 26 Front man on parade (8)

27 Bless Eros for minor concealment (6) Down 1 Consider glassily (7) 2 The source of a literary twilight (5) 3 Nice teetotaller showing sign of multiplication makes non-existent revelation (7)

5 Mere revolution reforms the artist (7) 6 Bacchic line of information (5-4) 7 Tale set in a Pacific city (7) 9 Really showy tree (10) 11 They keep up the side (10) 15 Scottish novel occupation (9) 17 The sinister is not on and has quit (4, 3) . 18 Kipling's kind of cat? (7) 19 Tunefully easy flying machine! (7) 20 Tell-tale shoe (7) 23 Singular bodies (5) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1375. Across: 1 Assisi

• 4 Ice-cream 10 Solvers 11 Leopard 12 Heart's- , ease 13 Item 15 Tierce 17 Enticed 19 Shebeen

21 Merinos 23 Bird 24 Antagonise 27 Aerator 28 , Coyness 29 Lemonade 30 Depend. Down: 1 - Aesthetes 2 Selvage 3 Spectacles 5 Colosseum 6 Crow 7 Elastic 8 Madam 9 Isle 14 Stereotype 16 Leningrad 18 Dispensed 20 Eardrum 22 Nevoid 23 Brawl 25 Arcb 26 Stun.