Crossword 1397

Across

1 Night-cap for the lecturer? Her husband must have needed one! (6)

4 Shows the way to get with dispatch (8)

10 Citrous fruits to have fun and music with (7) 11 TT needs hose! (7)

12 Samples of outrageous fortune's weapons tilted in the middle (10)

13 am the heir of all the — in the fore- most files of time' (Tennyson) (4)

15 Unpack, love, Penelope's not here (4, 3)

17 She, dear, sticks to it (71 19 Fun in Old Poona (71 21 Implying that the husbandman's toil lasts long? (7)

23 Ship shop (4)

24 'And time is grief forgotten' (S%%in- burne) (10)

27 Not altogether fond (7) 28 Fence in the Precincts perhaps (7)

29 This should never flag—or should it? (8)

30 1 lapse into a keyhole activity (6) Down

1 Cheeky corvine time-signal (9)

2 'And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning —' (Browning) (7) 3 No nightmare this, more suited to a day- dreamer! (5. 5) 5 The mien of Boadicea (9) 6 We French are. full of commonsense (4)

7 Not quite the role of noblesse! (7)

8 'Mine own son after the common faith', Paul wrote to him (5) 9 Wine in a plastic bottle! (4) 14 Hard cases of some old sailors (10) 16 But this New Zealander of Macaulay couldn't stand on London Bridge now! (9) 18 Veronica says goodbye (9) 20 She had a head start in wisdom (7) 22 An abbot's second comes first. I say (I. 6) 23 Part of the compiler's stock (5) 25 Lamb goes right to jug (4) 26 A good sort (4) Solution next week.

Solution to Crossword 1396. Across: I Provost

5 All-heal 9 Piffero 10 Lantern 11 Repetitive

12 Kiev 13 Roi 14 Prefatorial 17 Bogtrotters 19 Ore 20 Iota 22 Sauerkraut 26 Pensive 27 Dailies

28 Elegant 29 Damages. Down: 1 Piper 2 Off- spring 3 Overtop 4 Trout 5 Alleviate 6 Lane 7 Elemi 8 Land value 13 Rabbit-pie 15 Extravert 16 Isolating 18 Sikhism 21 Tense 23 Ended 24 Tests 25 Diva.