Crossword Puzzle
Across 7 It’s drunk to a saint (5) 8— There’s no let up for the rich. (7) 9 Insect swallows fruit for nourishment. (7) 10— Not seeing a window-screen. (5) 12— Will it give a ghostly light? (6, 4) 15— Nominally it forms a loose attachment (3-2, 5) 18— Make a score. (5) 19— Eavesdroppers of low degree. (7) 21— It’s nicer as a poison. (7) 22 Time for music. (5) Down 1— Tear things to pieces, and put them in order again! (10) 2 It’s the custom to put it on. (5) 3 It may spoil the look of a lid. (4) 4 Can he carry his drink? (6) 5 How to get browned off. (8) 6 Point wrongly claimed. (7) 11— Cause of dejection in weathermen? (10) 13— Liking for a swan-song. (8) 14— He knows the drill, presumably. (7) 16— A portion for each. (6) 17— It burns Alf up, then me! (5) 20— This nation is sound. (4) (Solution Tomorrow) Yesterday’s Solution Across: 1. Barometer; 8. Use: 9. Train driver; 11, Unarmed; 12, Reign; 13, Menace: 15, Leader: 17, Rates; 18. Succeed; 20, Illogicaliy: 22, Elm: 23. Dispenser. Down: 2. Air: 3, Minim; 4. Tirade: 5, Reverie: 6, Hurried meal: 7, Seeing red: 10, Against time: 11, Unmarried; 14, Castled; 16, Usages: 19, Cache; 21, Lie.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32384, 25 August 1970, Page 28
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222Crossword Puzzle Press, Volume CX, Issue 32384, 25 August 1970, Page 28
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