CROSSWORD No. 1241

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ACROSS 1. Researches to discover those damned fairies! (6) 4. A two-step calling for old-fashioned staying quality? (8) to. Vocal disapproval of majesty that will get you a summons (7) tr. Partner in a literary quadrille (7) 12. 'I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet -' (E. B. Browning) (4) 13. Housekeeper (4-2-4) 16. Determined on getting under canvas (6) 17. Here's brass for ices (7) zo. I'd return to the Ram for journals (7) 21. Such a welcome as Leander had! (6) 24. Top millers might produce a bored bard (5-5)

25. It incites the froth-blower to get to work (4)

27. Gear (7) 29. Fail in one's duty (7) 3o. Divine payments (8) 31. Publicity hound for the dog-show? (6) DOWN I. 'So Buxom, blithe and -' (Milton) (8)

2. Creeping Jenny in a free fight (II) 3. Theatrical direction'in Outward Bound? (4) 5. Paddy's personal inquiry causes a carry-on (8)

6. Beginners please! (to) 7. Professional association difficult to crack (3) 8. "Earkee, Ted, it's well deserved' (6)

9. Stony egoist (5)

14. Fate of a wildfowler at cricket (3, 3, I, 4) 15. 'Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings Round an - star' (Chesterton) (to) 18. All gone? (8) 19. No doubt it is sharpened on a Turkey hone! (8) 22. Where to tell one's beads? (6) 23. The Darcy characteristic (5) 26. He's ditched! (4) 28. There's charm in a wide sash (3) Solution next week.