5 JANUARY 1968, Page 29

Crossword no.1307

Across

1 In the place of marble halls, they put flowers out of sight! (10) 6 This bag in the hold, please (4) 10 Yellow bresim (5) 11 Special gets upset about Diafra's return for

stone-cutters (9) 12 Frenchmen putting their heads together (4-1-4) 13 Relative making advances on the telly? (5) 14 Not that one expects horse-play in these dances (10) 16 'Beneath those rugged ' (Gray (4) 18 Mum comes back to have the last word and it's electric! (4) 20 Highly proficient antiquities expert (10) 23 'The sea is calm to-night,' Matthew Arnold observed here (5) 24 Where to get appropriate religious light? (9) 27 Play with sudden emphasis? Do so, Franz (9) 28 Pipes for writers? (5) 29 Seating for the clutch? (4) 30 A letter from Lord Chesterfield with an un- expectedly commercial air! (6, 4) Down 1 The of heraldry, the pomp of power'

(Gray) (5) 2 Roundabout piece in the viva (7) •

3 The merchant cartographer (8)

4 Algie gives the educators the hump! (5)

5 Just about now one should act (9) 7 The politics of Racine? (7) 8 He's got it! (9) 9 Ocrti's raw material? (5)

14 I am kept in the heart of a descendant, Sir Charles might say (9)

15 Achieved when there is an orchestra around, but should be given up (9) 17 Lamb here? inquires the French poet (8) 19 Their work is designed to be trodden underfoot (7) 21 Tin fish, but hardly a sardine! (7) 22 Abrasion got when tending cattle? (5)

25 Golden-hearted May in France is brown down waft south (5) 26 ' thee, Nymph,' Milton charged (5) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1306. Across: 1 Pressing 5 Oppugn 9 True love 10 Flukes 12 Eleanor 13 Romping 14 Methodi- cally 17 Tax-collector 22 Process 23 Mullein 24 Alters 25 Ancestor 26 Ending 27 Isolated. Down: 1 Potter 2 Eludes 3 Silence 4 Nevertheless 6 Polemic 7 Uckficld 8 Nosegays 11 Predicaments 15 Stoppage 16 Exhorted 18 Overrun 19 Oil- well 20 Sextet 21 Inured.