Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31502, 17 October 1967, Page 32

Crossword Puzzle

Across I—Entertainer in a big crowd. (4) 3 Piece of music that adds nothing to musical entertainment (8) 9—Southern company press for a whip. (7) 10— Plane-crash in Asia. (5) 11— Go into battle to win some ground. (4,3,5) 13— It’s knotty being without medicine! (6) 15— Abrogation concerning souiid of bells. (6) 17— Almost good-humoured attempts at facetious utterances. (12) 20— Proof of convenient absence? (5) 21— Poles in characteristic passage. (7) 22 Banter isn’t a good thing when you’re old! (8) 23 The first metal? (4) Down 1— In doubt, he has taken it to the worker. (8) 2 Current jolt (5) 4 Began with nothing to write to the editor. (6) 5 Private fled in action. (12) 6 Drive back by beating again? (7) 7 Unctuous epithet for a mechanic. (4) 8— Avowal of drunken toper who has a position. (12) 12— Many miss Edward being shut in small room. (8) 14— Lost time and lost life, being all-in. (7) 16— The rabble put tie-on label on bit of cloth. (3-3) 18— Can little Susan be the child? (5) 19— The French doctor and essayist. (4) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 6, Grating; 7, Quail; 9, Stake; 10, Courage; 12, Freemasonry; 14, Blackmailer; 18, Herring; 19, Court; 21, Felon; 22, Gravity. Down: 1, Prate: 2, Stoker; 3, End; 4, Quarto; 5, Gingery; 8, Nomadic; 11, Germane; 13, Sleeper; 15, Carton; 16, Evolve; 17, Grate; 20, Art.