Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31596, 6 February 1968, Page 24

Crossword Puzzle

Across 1— Setting a lofty tone by camping on a mountain? (4-7) 9 Very hard stuff made by first male worker. (7) 10— Be niggardly about a conventional day’s work? (5) 11— They get engaged in gear. (5) 12— Scrutineer, we hear, may mark with coloured squares. (7) 13— Take ill being made to go again. (6) 15— Stress having small coin on account (6) 18— Ritual perfume may anger. (7) 20— To the time some farmers had begun tilling. (5) 22 Many have an arm or leg to raise themselves. (5) 23 Tell more untruths—about five—to survive. (7) 24 Had a meal in a fit of rage, indulging to excess. (11) Down 2 Speed after one, being angry. (5) 3 Pagan way to cook chicken? (7) 4 Complete in diplomacy. (6) 5 Actors going east form social class. (5) 6 Pie broken—remedy for the gourmet! (7) 7 Teacher takes bit to produce his best achievement (11) 8— Apparently the narrator can’t speak the truth. (5-6) 14— Division caused when no one backs a dissenting group. (7) 16— Opposing reckoner. (7) 17— Make good second successful hit? (6) 19 — Count, for example. (5) 21— Kind of tobacco swindle? (5) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 1, Mandarin; 5, Scar; 9, Aces; 10, Actuated; 11, Pagan; 12, Ensnare; 13, Spiritualists; 18, Rotation; 19, Ears; 20, Almonds; 21, Fatal; 22, East; 23, Gyration. Down: 2, Arc-lamp; 3, Despair; 4, Incredulously; 6, Cutlass; 7, Redress; 8, Mussel, 13, Serrate; 14, Isthmus; 15, Intent; 16, Inexact; 17, Tornado.