13 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 20

Crossword

No prize is offered this week. The solution will appear in next week's issue.

Across 1 Frankly, it's a sign of the times (8) 5 There's a lad at the centre, what a commo- tion! (6)

9 Assume as true, making particular contact, gives whereabouts (8) 10 Seaman, going on a binge gets all rosy! (6) 12 Separate, a hundred depart (6)

13 Little measure out with men to give impetus

(8) 15 Men at Green Street are given to a peculiar

disaffection (12) 18 Cut off with a shilling (12) 23 Just the place for making a movie! (8) 24 Note five at number one is such a comfort (6) 26 Tear the man on the waggon apart for a mere pot holder? (6) 27 Ancient and orderly woodsman (8) 28 She's in and out of order and gets a protec- tive coating (6) 29 Cover for Achilles' paradoxical rival (8) Down 1 Pay a post-card for religious organisation (6) 2 `I must Create a , or be enslav'd by Another man's' (Blake) (6) 3 A musical son returns to Cornish saint for criminal reasons 7)

4 A disturbance, in brilliant Technicolor, no doubt! (4)

6 Knightly face-saver is rum and beer, mixed (7) 7 Presents from the Lady? (8) 8 Is he a cloth-eater, this great beast? (8) 11 Talon, that it (3-4) 14 'Mc this unchartered - tires' (Words- worth) (7) 16 Calf-lover? (8) 17 Mindful media (8) 19 Carries on, like Jack the toad (7)

20 There's no answer for it! (7)

21 Does the last rose of summer bloom in her vineyard? (6) 22 German's England (6)

25 Lady with leonine smile? (4)

Solution next week