Crossword no.1334
Across 1 Levelling ont as day fades (7) 5 Water-jumps? (7) 9 'Out flew the web and — wide' (Tennyson) (7) 10 Range-finder of stealthy intent (7) 11 What the dominie does down in the glens? (10; 12 A colourful character (4) 13 Food (for thought?) for the printer (3) 14 Paper birds (5-6)
17 Their players have four strings to their bow! (11) 19 Bed-sitter for a horse (3)
20 Stony work with a Liberal (4) 22 Bow-legged and hairless swimmers! (10) 26 Miss Blackstone with the key perhaps (7) 27 A house in town (7) 28 Necking viewed with favour by the canal pros- pector (7) 29 'Our little — have their day' (Tennyson) (7) Down 1 Millais' lady (5) 2 Let oilmen provide this balm (9) 3 Quite a number like Horace's good man (7) 4 Awaited on-stage? (5) 5 Gallant singer-guitarist (9)
6 What sort of a fool did Polonius make of him- self behind the arras? (4)
7 Helen's transformation into a petrel (5)
8 by joy, impatient as the wind' (Words- worth) (9)
13 Medley that jars upon one paradoxically (3-6) 15 One of which may bring forth but a ridiculus mils (9) 16 Off the cuff, so to say? (9) 18 Timely supporters (7) 21 The Constant Nymph got up. that's good! (5) 23 Fashion displays are held in these vaults (5) 24 'The long and level — stretch far away' (Shelley) (5) 25 One cat, small but powerful! (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 1333. Across: 1 Pan- technicons 9 Metronome 10 Banal II Woman 12 Palmistry 13 Despair 15 Solomon 17 Plaster 19 Artisan 21 Patches up 23 Cheer 24 Limbo 25 Choriambs 26 Understanding. Down: 2 Arte- misia 3 Thorn 4 Cropper S Needles 6 Cabriolet 7 Nonet 8 Play on 9 Mowed 14 Aitchbone 16 Masterman 17 Pupils 18 Resects 19 Amphora 20 Narks 22 Timon 23 Child.