Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31993, 21 May 1969, Page 30

Crossword Puzzle

Across 1— Box, but almost show mercy. (4) 8— Sort of agent subject to insurance? (5-5) 9 Somehow give in before the French do some cajoling. (8) 10— Immorality has a strong grip. (4) 12— Signal on the drum for military display. (6) 14— Push through half that corrosion. (6) 15— A girl the editor felt the lack of. (6) 17— Bill gets prior attention by those who do. (6) ' 18— She’s in the American Navy! (4) 19— The head of a village or a township showing greed. (8) 21— It’s been used, and it will go all round in a minute. (6-4) 22 It’s not difficult to find a rough sea before the end of January. (4) Down 2 Firmly set and change into a cotton-field. (10) 3 Half a reel about America is a trick. (4) 4 Slow movement involves a U.S. soldier in fuss. (6) 5 Fervid study in painting. (6) 6 Communicate? Just the opposite. (8) 7 Real end of Maginot Street in Paris! (4) 11— Victims from accidents result from occasional restrictions. (10) 13— Examine a list or regular duties put up for a willing man! (8) 16— I’d be in the low joint to make a share-out. (6) 17— Here’s an outcast: you’ll see father with hair standing on end. (6) 18— Likewise found in sentimental songs. (4) 20— Cipher in three consecutive letters is just a cipher. (4) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 7, Eland: 8, Eternal; 9, Decimal: 10, Gored: 12, Spirit-lamp; 15, Red herring: 18, These: 19, Courses: 21, Insider; 22, Igloo. Down: 1, Dead secret; 2, Match: 3, Adam; 4, Dealer; 5, Heighten; 6, Entreat; 11, Depression; 13, Pretends; 14, Adverse; 16, Record; 17, Psalm, 20, Unit.