Crossword 1428

Across

1 Church militant on Salisbury Plain? (10)

6 Dog-end movements deviously indicate booty (4)

10 Nautical courses include basic brassware (5)

11 The buttercup grows on the diabolical region east of the drilling (9) 12 Sounds of boredom are the dregs (8)

13 Go right man and get the Fairy Queen (6)

15 The Nelson touch? (4) 16 Bill the judge? (4)

17 Droll and groggy scholar takes up the dance (5)

20 Sort of cathedral primer (5)

21 'Immense, of fishy form and mind, Squa- mous, omnipotent, and —' (Rupert Brooke) (4) 22 Happy companion to Mr. Lear's Kangaroo (4)

24 There's cash in colours (6) 26 Devonshire pit boss at home (8) 29 Tend to be earthy (9) 30 Get Rover to unearth the treasure (5) 31 'My scrip of joy, immortal —, My bottle of salvation' (Raleigh) (4) 32 It's their job to be convincing (10) Down 1 Lady who keeps the sabbath (5) 2 The rakish poet (9)

3 How badgers may be accounted for carto- graphically? (6)

4 Little sea-dog? (10) 5 Sell to get measures of cloth (4)

7 What Johnny done to Frankie (5) 8 Currency with which to bring home two kinds of bacon? (9)

9 The sleuth is one of us and makes diver- sions on the way (7) 14 They are naturally covered when they take the plunge (4, 6)

15 The Underworld hung out here, and now that has removed (9) 18 Cornish retreat for animated little Michael? (9) 19 A name is a matter of forgetfulness (7)

23 One way to collar a girl (6) 25 Nautical lift (5) 27 Judges manuscript on the river (4)

28 'Deep in the shady sadness of a — Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn' (Keats) (4)

Solution next week.

Solution to Crossword 1427. Across: 1 Defence 5 Hobbies 9 Valiant 10 Nibbled 11 Torch dance 12 Isis 13 Eli 14 Concatenate 17 Confiscated 19 Bis 20 Olaf 22 Rusticated 26 Umbrian 27 Epi- gone 28 Elevens 29 Dresser. Down: 1 Divot 2 Falernian 3 Noachie 4 Extra 5 Handcraft 6 Baba 7 Isles 8 Side-steps 13 Enclosure 15 Noc- turnes 16 Ambitious 18 Decline 21 Amble 23 Trend 24 Drear 25 Dire.