Crossword no.1279
Across 1 -One can't go fifty-fifty with her ! (6, 4) 6 Saint and sailor make•a sharp attack (4) 10 All in the dark about the thing (5)
11 Produces the cane, perhaps, to mark .disapproval (9)
• 12 The — falls on castle walls' (Tennyson) (9) 13 Circular letters about a short took for architects? (5) 14 It's off-putting when Pluto takes the sweeties! {10) 16 Opening for deerstalkers (4)
18 Ladies were requested in song to do it no more (4)
20 The basis of open-toed models? (10) 23 The alarm might come later (5) 24 How to get all lit uprlown in the glen? (9) 27 Just one sentence will produce this etket (9) 28 Shortest of tales (5) 29 Not that its inhabitants are shirty! (4) 30 A Liberal among the yokels? It's a joke (10) Down 1 Decamps—to Beds? (5)
2 They allow no slipping on -the ;part of good scouts (7) 3 Tenor involved with sex is a muscular type (8)
4 Plucky Marx! (5) 5 The Italian left the picture paper to be purified ! (9) 7 'And from this cavern, with ceaseless seething' (Coleridge) (7) 8 What happened to the eponymous captain in • County Mayo? (9)
9 'An — on an ambling pad' (Tenn son) (5) 14 They are remote, can't be involved in sides (9)
15 Errant Alf has the brotherly touch (9) 17 Signal Mrs Wheeler Waco: view long whips ! (8) 19 'Ruth as .a land-girl? (7)
21 Final tail-enders makings stand? (7) 22 Showing strong inclinationtoget a soaking? (5)
25 The daily woman (5) 26 A Pussyfootin New York looks spruce (5)
Solution next week Solution to Crossword no. 12713. Across I Catnip 4 Carapace 9 Parade 10 Bull Ring 12 Extremes 13 Wyvem IS Span 16 Spinnakers 19 Meddlesome 20 Stew 23 Lovers 25 Clappers 27 Islander 28 Entire 29 Nest-eggs 30 Stayed. Down. Coppers 2 Tarot card 3 Indies 5 Arum •6 Alley-cat 7 AIM. 13 Engines 11 Despise 14 Animals 17 Exuanity 18 Clarence 19 Million 21 West and 22 Spinet 24 Vales 26 Berg