CROSSWORD PUZZLE
[BY
SIMON]
Across I—Did mention of this persuade Micky Mouse to smile in the film studio? (6) 4—When accused of being it, the young rascal started to lie in another way. (8) 9—A popular dish in the Cockney’s little home? (6) 10—A figure that might be found after one has passed the lowest common. (8) 12— Is he a useful soldier to the Foreign Legion? Scarcely. (8) 13— A mixed asset I find when trying to do business in the tropics. (6) 15—Little devils in tears? (4) 17—On the contrary it has to be a massive edifice. (10) 19— Would this kind of person somehow tend finally to go to court? (10) 20— A friend in it is ope for certain. (4) 23 He would turn at a turn on his scholastic way. (6) 24 Would an unbalanced diet mean a state of unbalance? (8) 27 Once an underground worker who might fail you. (8) 28— A cracking game from Japan. (1-4) 29 — They hold a kind of endless gloom according to Jeremiah’s version of it. (8) 30— It should be father who pays it (6)
Down 1— Food provided by an Indian cow-herd. (7) 2 Certainly not the odds offered by the crooked seven. (5) 3 Drink offered to the bashful about to sin. (6) 5 Where in France you might find me about to make a silent complaint. (4) 6 The sort of victory a side may gain if it is not in wrong with the umpires. (8) 7 Chicanery attributed to umpires who have gone wrong. (9) 8— What a horse might do to a valet upset in an eastern point-to-point? (7) 11—The prose I’d embellish by scattering them about. (7) 14 —A form of red hunt engaged in by the loud-mouthed demagogue. (7) 16—Do raw-milk advocates object to it at the beginning or end of the process? (9) 18— A bird that seems to put its warning device to some account. (8) 19— This implies the retirement of many service personnel. (7) 21— A drink of cold air. (7) 22 She provides a reason for going wrong. (6) 25 A person of importance In no other than English history. (5) 26 Was this the cause of a waterbird’s loss of tail when sitting up on it? (4)
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 10
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