Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32076, 26 August 1969, Page 34

Crossword Puzzle

Across 1— Plain tender concoction providing the base for the main course. (6-5) 9—Out-and-out editor gave voice. (7) 10— Gout’s upsetting but it may give you zest. (5) 11— Produce a bullock, we hear, and cut it up. (5) 12— Being placed at the rear is a hindrance to progress. (7) 13— Jets—fall to your knees in the ship. (6) 15— Set a fixed price, we hear, for the bend below the ceiling. (6) 18— Discharges, but doesn’t exact any penalty. (4, 3) 20— Weak—break up in health about the end of the year. (5) 22 Expunge records after seeing errors, initially. (5) 23 Give half in rage and so be a vindictive type. (7) 24 Altered that dreadfully anguished sound. (5-6) Down 2 Put to earth in plain territory. (5) 3 The charges are always small in this school. (7) 4 Salad food is hard, or could be. (6) 5 Portable lamp presumably. (5) 6 Having a will of one’s own? (7) 7 Metallic element to make rapid money. (11) 8— They carry on a largely novel trade. (11) 14— Caterer can be made to return by the same way. 16— Think what light rays on shiny surfaces do. (7) 17— A very loud manner produces romance. (6) 19— Public surplus by the head of the Treasury. (5) 21— A cake in marzipan, gelatine and icing. (5) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 1, Serenade: 5, Thug: 9, Taxi: 10. Ensemble; 11, Store: 12, Moisten: 13, Bread and water; 18, Crude oil: 19, Alps; 20. Ottoman: 21, Sedan: 22, Tart; 23, Steering. Down: 2, Exactor: 3, Eritrea: 4, Don’t mention it; 6, Habitat: 7, Gleaner: 8, Review: 13, Back out; 14, Equator; 15, Dreamt; 16, Amateur; 17, Explain.