Crossword Puzzle

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32360, 28 July 1970, Page 28

Crossword Puzzle

1— Doctors take it to heart (11) 9—Detains by way of a change. (7) 10— A number get well and live. (5) 11 — Victor’s opposite number. (5) 12— The second mate’s boy. (7) 13— Country hat (6) 15— A medium state, perhaps. (6) 18—He drinks to a steam-ship vessel. (4-3) 20— Put your finger on how to raise money. (5) 22 Wrong a young lady. (5) 23 Sauce boat now costing more. (7) 24 Give-away merchants who don’t want custom? (4, 7) Down 2 Enquire in the back street for jobs. (5) 3 Proposition from her to me. (7) 4 Do let’s make a change for the first-born! (6) 5 A rotter, for example, coming up to sponge. (5) 6 Don’t stop the wrong persons. (5, 2) 7 Swift character. (11) 8— Yet it means a fat chance! (7, 4) 14— Possibly retains something more unpleasant (7) 16— Turned to trade, perhaps. (7) 17— He doesn’t merely play with fire! (6) 13—Not a genuine stone or stick. (5) 21— He leads us to her. (5) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across- 1, Spurious; 5, Alan; 9, Mean; 10, Allergic; 11 Light- 12 Creates; 13, Depressed area; 18, Audition; 19 Asps ’2ft’lsolate; 21, Debar; 22, Take; 23, Asserted. ’ Down- 2 Preside; 3, Rancher; 4, Ugly customers; 6 Lighter; 7, Nicosia; 8. Legend; 13, Diarist; 14, Pad-lock-15, Extras; 16, Amateur; 17, Expiate.