Crossword no.1319

Across 1 Literally all over the place (6) 4 The charity-boy, said Mr Weller, had his doubts about its worth (8)

10 Does this disguise the fisherman as a slippery customer? (7) 11 Might one playfully keep all the Muses to- gether? (7) 12 A set of six is finished (4)

13 It shows that the tempted got it in the neck! (5,5)

16 Cut the sales-talk and let out the water! (6) 17 Where to find coffee cultivated in its end- product? (7) 20 Websters (7) 21 A fine candlestick (6)

24 Speed takes shape in it (6-4) 25 'He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and —!" ' (Browning) (4) 27 Paved and waved (7) 29 A son of Scotland he. and back for a knife (7)

30 Less gear can change to give out in a big way (8) 31 What Horace did for a plot of land (6) Down

I Courtship. said Congreve. is a very witty one (8)

2 With which to cover twenty-five years in Fleet Street? (6. 5) 3 Risk turns to troubles (4) 5 Lighthouse? (8)

6 Giant mouse? They should know in the nur- sery, anyway (10) 7 Scholar quietly gets one at breakfast over the Border (3) 8 Wedding conveyance fog Daisy (6)

9 Dines out, that's mean (5) 14 Dickensian philistinism (11) 15 Enclosed quarters (10) 18 Musical beginnings (8)

19 Bad steed when confused sometimes gives sup- port to nightmares (8) 22 Fuel us and see how that can be serviceable (6)

23 The soul of Ancient Rome ;5) 26 Mark on the hill-face (4)

28 'Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight. And all the — a solemn stillness holds' (Gray) (3)

Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1318. Across: 1 Tramps 4 Escapade 10 Roadway 11 Euterpe 12 Water-chute 13 Envy 15 Warlock 17 Orpheus 19 Yearned 21 Needful 23 Ally 24 Fairground 27 Re- group 28 Pintado 29 Stockade 30 Rental. Down: 1 Throwaway 2 Alastor 3 Power-point 5 Sweetcorn 6 Arts 7 Arrange 8 Elegy 9 Ayah 14 Appearance

16 Kidnapped 18 Salad-bowl 20 Allegro 22 Fou- mart 23 Arras 25 Ripe 26 Rook.