Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 22

Crossword Puzzle

Across I—Act dumb. (4) 8— Doesn’t it have a single word of sense? (6,4) 9 Gave beer as a drink. (8) 10—Horse ran round the ring. (4) 12—Stayed unusually balanced. (6) 14 — Hole at the front (6) 15— Indiscreet bank official. (6) 17— Untie a combination in a relative way. (6) 18— A case for a sempstress. (4) 19— Makes out and rescinds perhaps. (8) 21— Musical cart-horses perhaps. (10) 22 He’s bound to be right (4) Down

2 To go dressed as a priest may provide interest. (10) 3 Piece of coloured georgette for a hem. (4) 4 After a quick start it’s simple to be unsettled. (6) 5 A belt I altered, notwithstanding. (6) 6 A good man to incite fish. (8) 7 Hide southern relations. (4) 11—He’ll let you have lots at knock-down prices. (10) 13—OJC, there’s no-one left (3,5) 16— It’s hard, perhaps, but edible. (6) 17— Maintain a lock that’s returned. (6) 18— Black bone structure. (4) 20—The way to travel to gain time. (4) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution

Across: 7, Irate: 8, Overeat; 9, Look-out; 10, Extra; 12, Speculates; 15, Trade winds; 18, Rungs; 19, Sternum; 21, Defined; 22, Again. Down: 1, Billposter; 2, Razor; 3, Hero; 4, Poetic; 5, Repelled; 6, Testate; 11, Assessment; 13, Pressing; 14, Magnify; 16, Inside; 17, Inlay; 20, Edam.