CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across I—Dirigible to ventilate a vessel. (7) 9—Turn fat and weak on a ship’s stern. (8) 10— Messenger on the run. (7) 11— Cannibal with no taste for women? (3-5) 12— These resting places constitute an asset. (5) 13— Lackey about to be a painful boxing trophy. (5-3) 17—About fifty-one, competent and wholly trustworthy. (8) 20— The venerable verger has the jemmy. (5) \ 21— Skilled worker' somehow makes me fetter a hundred. (8) 23 Flowers inquisitive about the return of time. (7) 24 Number with unfortunate associations. ,(8) 25 Portion which gets men all upset. (7) (Solution on Page 14)
Down 2 Smoothed in a metallic way. (6) 3 The goblin is right about illwilL (6) 4 A detail, blit it upsets me. (4) 5 “And never the twain shall meet” applies to these, too. (8, 5) 6 Misdemeanour taken by the aggrieved. (7) 7 Disturbed by the clatter? (7) 8— Cajolery imparted by a stone. (7) 14— I’m about to chatter for a churchman. (7) 15— Limp calf turns lip to join the police department. (7) 16— The boat has become a Biblical word for armies. (7) 18— Buy back and consider again. (6) 19 — Half of them get caught ina shower, but stay. (6) 22—Hundred and one for a figure. (4)
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 10
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