Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31450, 17 August 1967, Page 24

Crossword Puzzle

Across 4 Keeps on beating the baseball players. (7) 8— One-time harbour town to carry on international trade. (6) 9 A thousand or less broken up into bits. (7) 10— Dried fruit is kept in wet weather. (6) 11— Went on an excursion—route changed near the capital of Denmark. (6) 12— Large tin in pieces, but not involving fractions. (8) 18— A visa needed for father's recreation! (8) 20— Put in position round a fine building. (6) . . . 21— . . a fine building rejected by the French. (6) 22 Fertiliser tin returned with speed (7) 23 Placed in the race for a very short time. (6) 24 Give me a certain standard of comparison. (7) Down 1— Don’t continue the chorus. (7) 2 Goes quickly to get part of the newsprint subedited. (7) 3 Endeavouring to be irritating. (6) 5 Top sales foi those sent to preach. (8) 6 Flimsy kind of paper to publish after tea! (6) 7 A wave—and something to smooth it out (6) 13— One who reproduces a firearm. (8) 14— English bridge is French bridge with nothing on! (7) 15— Puts in an appearance and acts as a waiter. (7) 16— Spite I see in man. (6) 17— Certain clerics could be spared. (6) 19— Allotments that are expected to pay dividends. (6) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 1, Ultra-modern; 9, Coy; 10, Landscape; 11. Nasty; 13, Transit; 14, Waists; 16, Trends; 18, Eternal; 19, Clear; 20. Grenadier; 21, Auk; 22, Assessments. Down: 2. Lay: 3, Rally: 4. Minute: 5, Despair: 6, Roadsense; 7, Acknow’ed»e: 8. Death-stroke; 12, Spineless; 15, Tonnage; 17, Plains; 19, Carve; 21, Ant.