Crossword no. 1270

Across 1 I'm among entertainers for uplift! (6) 4 Triton's manly front has got everything (3-5) 9 Men who consume too many City dinners? (6) 10 Royal Mail? (4-4) 12 Dusty Miller (8) 13 Punitive order that a batsman hopes to achieve (4, 2)

15 Hide for a hide? (4)

16 Old Morocco, where one might find amateur in a tizzy (10) 19 Did the needful angelically (10)

20 It's dotty to mark this for restoration! (4) 23 I go to Miss Havisham's house for woad (6) 25 Constance is not returning to the lake (8)

27 Refreshers at the sales? (8)

28 'I made head, gained ground upon the whole!' (Browning) (6) 29 Ships all gone astray to the South (8)

30 It's the doctor, shut up! (6) Down

1 Ancient in college dining-room takes the lot (7)

2 Diving act? (9) 3 'And - came on in fury' (Macaulay) (6) 5 It's bad to live it up! (4)

6 Chew the cud? (8)

7 Get a black look from Roney (5)

8 Ain't it a change for a queen? (7) 11 A chopper for an adherent (7) 14 'And - hallows with her tread The silent cities of the dead' (Byron) (7) 17 111 at ease when out (3, 2, 4)

18 Sound of Cleopatra's baby being furious (8) 19 It goes with the post (4-3) 21 Metal bird for the Abbey (7) 22 Heathcliff's rival bandaged? (6)

24 'Proud-pied - dressed in all his trim' (Shakespeare) (5) 26 Who shall, in short, be nameless! (4)

Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1269. Across. 1 Hockey 4 Islander 10 Swagger 11 Orderly 12 Errand boys 13 MAI 15 Indorse 17 Off-beat 19 Gallons 21 KCCIaft0 23 Swan 24 Engravings 27 Tripoli 28 Fishnet 29 Pigtail,' 30 Lenses. Down. 1 Hastening 2 Charred 3 Engine-room 5 Story-book 6 Aida 7 Derange 8 Royal 9 Crib 14 Effervesce 16 Essential 18 Thersites 20 Leading 22 Awnings 23 Set up 25 Rife 26 Coda