ACROSS
I. It's turning to mother, very loud at
last. (7.) 5. A handkerchief, perhaps, largely light blue. (7.) 9. For this is not returning. (5.) to. Not a favourite confection in some parts of Ireland, perhaps. (9.) r 1. Dedicated to the Consort. (6.) 12. I'd enter a river for this symbol. (7.) 14. A case of mortifying the skin, if not the flesh. (8.) 15. A cricketer among Mr. Walpole'. characters. (6.) 18. Who would be one, asked Brabantio. (6.)
20. When it came to escapology he left
the Germans far below him. (8.) 23. Followed, perhaps, though no longer Plenty. (7.) 25. Their product is generally anything but sedative, all the same. (6.) 27. A host in himself, no doubt. (9.) 28. " While you thus - me together To neither a word will I say." (Gay.) (5.) 29. Like the apartment in which Po:onius met his end. (7.) N. A component part. (7-)
DOWN
1. All right, stretch me, you donkey! (4.) 2. Famous old journalist on a thin diet and sticking to it. (9.) 3. Urals in a quite different setting. (7.) 4. Fed his ma, yet hungry. (8.) 5. Gilbert's phantom. (6.) 6. Trifle about a coiled snake. (7.) 7. Good advice, though extended, from an author. (5.)
8. You might find a match, Helen, here. (to.)
13. This flavouring begins like an enemy. (to.) 16. Retail tea with small change. (9.) 17. Rambling remarks not without reason to begin with. (9.) 19. She makes me go back to Fleet Street. (7.) 21. " I will not open my lips so wide as a - may enter." (Shakespeare.) (7.) 22. Cut down. (6.) 24. Saul's G.O.C. (5.) 26. Love is said Browning. (4.)