CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28180, 19 January 1957, Page 6

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

[BY SIMON)

ACROSS I—A1 —A model of sartorial elegance. (9) 6 —Vegetation of assistance to rubber? (if water is there too). (5) 9—Material that is found in the entrance to Salamanca. (5) 10— Wherein one and fifty may have a big ride round about. (9) 11— There’s one at the start of nearly all books. (7) 12— A poor horse was taken along thus. (7) 13— A Soviet Air-marshal’s plane allotment may make him try this. (9) 16 —If you want to cook a pie in Africa you may find this animal in it. (5) 18— Photos of one vessel back inside another. (5) 19— Outfit a prospector—but don’t let him mistake it for an order. (9) 20— Former wrongs or present squeezes. (7) 23—One on whom ice acts differently withput effect (7) 26 An animal once of sterling worth? (6-3) 27 Does it make the Royal Marines warm up? (5) 28— If you don’t give way to it. you go wrong. (5) 29 A newsreel movement makes one indifferent. (9)

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DOWN I—Found in a form to charm us, I consider. (5) ' 2—Suffered by one who is lost again in a maze. (9) 3 Shown by a Celt when agitated? (5) 4 A parasite beneath the fish? (9) 5 The direction subsequently taken by the discoverers of the South Pole. (5) 6 The story of a hundred debts seems clever. (9) 7 Rise—about an endless belt? (5) 8— Loafers live close to it. no doubt. (9) 13— A green mash at the end of the officers’ repast for the carrier. (9) 14— It takes in sailors or their calling. (9) 15— -This may bring about real anguish without an injunction to silence. (9) 17—What the flat-seeker said when offered a whole house. (9) 21— Nothing ends with it. (5) 22 In the make-up of ink. a pes is important. (5) 24 What the bowler angles for? (5) 25 It’s funny when the Com-mander-in-Chief circumvents the decoration. (5)