Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31726, 9 July 1968, Page 24

Crossword Puzzle

Across 7 An official who escorts us near the girl. (5) 8— Put too great a strain on open chopper. (7) 9 Minks disturbed by an uncle, maybe. (7) 10— Hire charge gives the first of the landlords comfort (5) 12— Didn’t expand, but made a business agreement (10) 15— Scene of noisy confusion, sounding like flowerless plot! (4-6) 18— A hook taken from the boat alongside. (5) 19— Stiff material produced by deer and sheep. (7) 21— Gets over life’s burdens. (7) 22 Material part of the spell in enchantment. (5) Down 1— Pet costing a dollar? (4-6) 2 Footwear round the north produced a dazzling effect (5) 3 Side, ear or kettle? (4) 4 Good French interlaced material for a hat. (6) 5 Sounds like the girl who draws the water with a strong constitution! (4-4) 6 Ship gets round characteristic difficulties. (7) 11— Men need art to produce a loving expression. (10) 13— Key operator in a manual sense? (8) 14— Party novelty—everybody in favour. (7) 16— Very healthy end to the boxer with a variety of bouts. (6) 17— Bird of great use at the dockside. (5) 20— Pistol left in bed. (4) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 1, Wide-awake: 8, Vie: 9, Merchandise: 11, Honesty, 12, Habit; 13, Adepts; 15, Stolen; 17, Lying; 18, Retinue; .20, Dress-makers; 22, Eve; 23, Sandpiper. « Aches; 4, Annoys; 5, Epithet; 6, X’- Pen,tence - 10, Range-finder; 11, Headlines, 14, Tigress; 16, Prison; 19, Tramp; 21, Roe.