5 APRIL 1968, Page 40

Crossword no.1320

Across 1 Part of a novel musical combination (12) 8 Chamber music that comes to nought? (9) 9 Nothing with crab for this bean! (5) 11 Otherwise softwood makes up a trial (6) 12 Where Tom might get at( eyeful at the fair (4-4) 14 Credo? No! (10) 16 Upon which shoes are made to endure? (4) '18 Humble cousin of that Grecian Urn? (4) .

19 Penultimate night for Scheherezade (10) 21 Delayed bridal response of one afflicted by calf- love? (8) 22 Struck for two shillings (6) 25 Layabout who just ticks over? (5) 26 Ante meridian (9) 27 The sort of rise a film-star might expect! (12) Down 1 Done where joints are concerned! (5) 2 How one might be taken with the goods? (8) 3 Take the edge off things, that's neat (4) 4 Meet me in France (10)

5 Take over cup in r.-..:xed company (6)

6 This is the way up in the world (9) 7 Musician who is always agreeable? (12) 10 How to behave on the Blasted Heath (12) 13 Featherweight bargee? (10) 15 Author of a famous complex? (9) 17 Describes a pointed action (8) -

20 'I'm Gormed—and I can't say — than that' (Dickens) (6)

23 Lean right around to become organic (5) 24 One master cat makes a very small unit (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1319. Across: Passim 4 Alphabet 10 Oilskin 11 Ninepin 12 Over 13 Adam's apple 16 Unplug 17 Grounds 20 Spiders 21 Sconce 24 Stream-line 25 Apes 27 Flagged 29 Machete 30 Largesse 31 Prayed. Down: I Prologue 2 Silver paper 3 Irks 5 Land- mark 6 Huncamunca 7 Bap 8 Tandem 9 Snide

14 Podsnappery 15 Quadrangle 18 Preludes 19 Bedstead 22 Useful 23 Anima 26 Scar 28 Air.