When all the answers are in place, the letters in squares 9 to 13 and 23 to 29 will spell out the name of a singer who had a hit album in 1958 with a rather appropriate title, which will be found in 17 and 18 across. ACROSS 1 Italian city, birthplace of St Francis (6) 4 Popular hot beverage (6) 9 Money paid for an airline ticket sounds reasonable! (4) 10River on which Avignon stands (5) 11Indian city, location of the Taj Mahal (4) 12Noahs fresh ship in New Jersey city? (6) 13Render unconscious (5,3) 14Swirling stream meets river blockage in Netherlands city (9) 16 Summer month (4)) 22Quick 17 and 18Hit album by the hidden singer (4,3,4,2) 22East African country, capital Dodoma (8) 23Timed periods of work (6) 25 Midday (4) 26 Change, changing later (5) 27 Rubber wheel surround (4) 28In the air, as calm as a mischievous child, perhaps (6) 29Great 9th-century King of Wessex (6) Crossword answers Spring 2019 DOWN 1 Californian city, location of the Disneyland Resort (7) 2 Italian city collapses in sea (5) 3 One taking industrial action, perhaps (7) 5 US state, capital Salem (6) 6 German airport with the IATA code FRA (9) 7 During the course of a journey (2,5) 8 Evening entertainment with drinks (8,5) 15Twenty-four longitudinal regions into which the world is divided (4,5) 17Loud and confused noise (7) 19Good-for-nothing type lets war develop (7) 20Became fully grown and developed (7) 21Capital of Turkey (6) 24 Prefix meaning between (5) Across: 7 Le Bourget 8 Guide 10 Cable car 11 Guyana 12 Arid 13 Skytrain 15 Rockies 17 Illegal 20 Libretto 22 Fast 25 Taiwan 26 Debonair 27 Urals 28 Ulan Bator Down: 1 Feral 2 Roller 3 Eric Idle 4 Dearest 5 Duty-free 6 Identical 9 Ugly 14 Solitaire 16 Kirkwall 18 Left Bank 19 Gondola 21 Tyne 23 Sundae 24 Visor Freddie Laker Caption competition Write an amusing caption for the picture, right, and if youre selected as our winner, you will receive 50. Image submissions can earn you 20 if they are used, so send your picture to TheLog@balpa.org How to enter Email your entry to TheLog@ balpa.org with the subject line Caption competition. Or send it to: Caption competition, The Log, BALPA House, 5 Heathrow Boulevard, 278 Bath Road, West Drayton, UB7 0DQ Closing date: 12th August 2019 Winner from last issue Yellow vest protest comes to London, with activists sleeping in peculiar places to address pilot fatigue Amir Said Runner up: A Ryanair Company Council rep after another meeting with management Captain Giora Kahanov TEA BREAK Crossword