15 NOVEMBER 1969, Page 31

Crossword 1404

Across 1 Pomaceous thyroid inheritance on the spearside? (5, 5) 6 The award will come in handy (4) 10 Leg and sleeve (5) II Definitely, neither's at home (3, 3, 3) 12 Is the subject a Belgian citizen? (8) 13 One chap in colourful surroundings is kind- hearted (6) 15 A wee bit of fish (4) 16 Whereof a wife went on a pilgrimage (4) 17 They may appear overnight making whoo- pee with an infantryman (5) 20 'The - swims around him-he is gone' (Byron) (5) 21 Big bird in its winter nest (4) 22 Common to the Highlands and Throgmor- ton Street (4)

24 To be candid, you need to sharpen up a good man (6) 26 Whence Keats might have poured his

beaker of blushful Hippocrene? (E)

29 Pan in tune: for a life on the ocean lx-ave?

(9) 30 Paul and I collaborate in a rice dish (5) 31 Toy you'll find among Tokyo youngsters (4) 32 Naturally, it's alwa)s in mint condition!

(10) Down I No wonder the money flies, as they might have said in Old England (5)

2 Put so. a good geometrician should be this (5-4)

3 the dog with all the answers! (6) 4 Naturally increases good stone among sup- ports (10) 5 Overdue and out of office (4) 7 Giuseppe's reply when asked where to go for scent! (5) 8 Issue within the dynasty leads to subdued murmurs (9)

9 SYS:MOWS whole (7)

14 Loosely he's a prodigy (10) 15 Song from a houseboat? (3-6) 18 A turnabout over a friend, of course (9)

19 Depart qualified but faint! (4. 3)

23 Maker of a phrase (6) 25 Inclined for forty winks like a shaggy dog? (5)

27 'And in the dust be - made With the poor crooked scythe and spade' (Shirley) (5)

28 One over the eight (4) Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1403. Across: 1 Fla- grantly 6 Huff 10 Loads II Vermilion 12 Steerage 13 Anthea 15 Pink 16 Stir 17 Sabot 20 Ounce 21 Rash 22 Eric 24 Elstow 26 Haunters 29 Dominions 30 Evoke 31 Rose 32 Four-in- hand. Down: I Falls 2 Agamemnon 3 Resort 4 Navigators 5 Lark 7 Uriah 8 Fantastic 9 Lionise 14 Trespasser 15 Provender 18 Bar- celona 19 Resound 23 Intern 25 Samos 2: Speed 28 Polo.