7 MARCH 1969, Page 29

Crossword no. 1368

Across 1 Extra lucky clover (10) 6 Athletic record? (4)

10 The origin of our species? (5)

11 Capital Academy with a London branch (9) 12 Domestic bunting on the line (5-4) 13 How you might feel after a bout of it (3, 2) 14 Magically tongue-tied in the bee (10) 16 Confirm and exclaim she's a help to the mem- sahib (4) 18 Cave, here comes old faithful! (4) 20 As a tram can transform itself into boats for shrews (10) 23 Medical team with their backs to the wall? (5) 24 Coleridge's lovely lady (9) 27 She buttered up to the King in the nursery (9) 28 The faithful one and his double are evidently elewhere (5) 29 'When the is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not' (Shelley) (4)

30 This lovely lady's deadly! (10)

Down 1 Conflict, audibly brassy (5) 2 'He would not flatter — for his trident' (Coriolanus) (7) 3 Oddly mathematically? (8) 4 Weak character in a literary Pickle (5) 5 She was saved from sacrifice by hind sight, as it were (9) 7 Lie, lady, in the best manner (7) 8 Companies surround the channel with tribal results (9) 9 A teller of tales (5) 14 It isn't hard to play it down (4, 5) 15 Sounds like help for the Ulstermen in liquid form (9) 17 Bitter start leads to a measure of gaiety (8) 19 He is often just filling in time in his job! (7)

21 A very larks'-tongues-and-honey' man (7)

22 'And there be — extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls' (W. S. Gilbert) (5) 25 Wordsworthian mount (5) 26 Miss Heath (5) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1367. Across: 1 Stage- coach 6 Talc 10 Ghent 11 Intimates 12 Afterglow 13 Rosso 14 Model-girls 16 Bela 18 Lear 20 Mis- sionary 23 Colet 24 Interacts 27 Logarithm 28 Dodge 29 Rook 30 Adulterate. Down: I Sigma 2 Abetted 3 Entirely 4 Oriel 5 Cotswolds 7 Artiste 8 Cassowary 9 Emirs 14 Molecular 15 Initiated 17 Porridge 19 Allegro 21 Arcadia 22 Stare 25 Tamil 26 Stele.