7 FEBRUARY 1970, Page 28

Crossword 1416

Across I It's not surprising to see him indulging in horse-play (4, 6) 6 Fish with sauce (4) 10 Bells ring out round the north but it's puni- tive (5) 11 Performer inspired by Handel's Water Music? (3, 6) 12 How the inebriate returned home in those odd hours? (9) 13 Diva has a small but filling snack! (5) 14 Lengthen one's immersion in an argent pool (10) 16 Slow type of missile? (4)

18 'A good mouth-filling —' (Hen. /V.!)

20 Rustic comes down to earth to meet a sower (4-6) 23 Habitat of that `rathe primrose'? (5) 24 Barking sharks? (3-6) 27 Norman Douglas's Aeolian offering (5, 4) 28 Love in a mist! (5) 29 Soundly on the ladder (4)

30 Lily presents Ottoman VIP to the piper so (10)

Down 1 Wine in plenty for smokers (5) 2 Hudson's faraway literary association (4, 3) 3 Of the Tower of Babel? (8) 4 'Thy prison is a holy place and thy sad floor an —' (Byron) (5) 5 Sent forth with dispatch (9) 7 Public performance by Spanish footballers around a small citizen (7) 8 'An amber scent of odorous perfume Her —' (Milton) (9) 9 Lightsome French feminine type takes to our men at St. Stephen's (5) 14 Holmes's breakfast-table incarnation (9) 15 Ensuring one is dry-shod? (9) 17 Robot? (8) 19 'That the great house of — Should suffer wrong no more' (Macaulay) (7)

21 H. Pinter finds himself in Cumberland! (7)

22 Occupants of the peacock throne (5) 25 A divine gets out of bed for a tot (3, 2) 26 Enough of that Dickens House! (5) Solution next week

Solution o Crossword 1415. Across: 1 Conine 5 Ferment 9 Devoted 10 Elysium 11 Reson- antly 12 Ossa 13 Leo 14 Stringently 17 Bush- rangers 19 Bar 20 Rash 22 Jolly roger 26 Ter- mite 27 Two-part 28 Debated 29 Oversee. Down: 1 Cider 2 Revisions 3 Intents 4 Emden 5 Freelance 6 Rays 7 Exits 8 Tom Sawyer 13 Liberated 15 Run to seed 16 Toboggans 18 Scrooge 21 Shrub 23 Lotto 24 Rathe 25 List.