3 NOVEMBER 1967, Page 37

Crossword no. 1298

Across

1 Sisterly fellow-traveller with Lionel and Slingsby (6)

4 After the dance, ancestor fails in the end but finds equilibrium (8) 10 Horseman (7) 11 Horsemen (7) 12 The original cubists' gallery? (4) 13 Concerning that Florentine duke .. . (10) 16 With which Belisarius coined a phrase (6) 17 Staff College artillery on foot gets into close shaves (7) 20 Goldfish? (7) 21 'My — Becomes an April violet' (Tennyson) (6)

24 Weekly fortunes? (3-7) 25 It's composite with 26. Beware, 26! (4) 27 Play detective and get reproductive (7)

29 Nautical timekeeper in one for Titian's master (7) 30 Hash aromatics? (3-4) 31 Mouthpiece for the bubble-reputation? (6)

D9ws - 1 Me my , Hal; 'tilt no Ma for a man to tabour in his —' (Shakespeare) (8) 2- With which to bring science to a play at Aristophanes? (11)

3 Look up at the nave, there's a Welshman that (4) 5 Account a living for exactness (8) 6 Wimbledon benefits (10) 7 Colonel Hill puts in a brief appearance (3) 8 Saw, it irsaid (6) 9 Little credit on love at last, that's language (5) 14 The test for it is in the bag, now (II) 15 A sweet term of endearment, for Eve, perhaps? (5-5) 18 Society of worms? (4-4) 19 Plato was such a bee! (8) 22 Maintenance on account of the Ioneses? (6) 23 Cheque cheeks (5)

26 Backbiter ad infinitum (4) _28 Add a little rum (3)

Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1297. Across, 1 Vesuvius 5 Lanni& 9 Lovelorn 10 Lissom 12 Spurn 13 Abolition 14 Illot-officer 18 Microbalance 21 Garibirkli 23 Trill 24 Noi,es 25 Scholars 26 Dryads 27 Glisters. Down. 1 Valise 2 Savour 3 Valentino 4 Unreasonable 6 Alibi 7 Unstiteh R Almoners 11 Monomaniacal 15 Facetious 16 1m:tented 17 Scarcity 19 Tirade 20 Closes 22 Breed