Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 24

Crossword puzzle

Across 6 You’ll find prices constantly rising at it. (7) 7 Seen, we hear, to be lying. (5) 9—lt grows in a barrel, maybe. (3) 10— He’s not a good reporter. (9) 12— Imaginary convert to Christianity? (4-7) 15— It holds a wicked light* (11) 17— The actors I get the spectators to criticise. (9) 19— The most we can get in real life. (3) 21— Incomplete sauce-boat (5) 22 A month before or after it, he takes care. (7) Down 1— It may cover you in retirement. (5) 2 Don’t go without a pen. (3) 3 A game of polo, perhaps. (4) 4 Watch and see how long the music takes. (9) 5 Retain one not in the first team. (7) 8— Put money in underwear? (6) 11 — It’s a rigid rule. (9) 13— Go curiously greeny? (6) 14— He controls the nag and mare together. (7) 16— Share-out everyone has to come up for. (5) 18— Means of transport, sometimes sprung. (4) 20— Warm and dry appearance? (3) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 7, Blotting paper; 8, Dominant; 9, Bomb; 10, Papers; 12, Torpid; 14, Detail; 16, Deigns; 18, Rood; 20, Tolerate; 22, Electric Razor. Down: 1, Allocate; 2, Stride; 3, Lima; 4, Agitated; 5, Camber, 6, Seem; 11, Solitary; 13, Ignition; 15, Addict; 17, Inroad; 19, Oils; 21, Lock. (Wednesday’s solution) Across: 1, Plus; 8, Astronomer; 9, Consider; 10, Type; 12, Poncho; 14, Silver, 15, Risque; 17, Hearts; 18, Were; 19, Tum down; 21, Footballer; 22, Eels. Down: 2, Locomotive; 3, Saws; 4, Studio; 5, Boards; 6, Tortilla; 7, Free; 11, Pretty well; 13, Coquette; 16, Extras; 17, Hurdle; 18, Wife; 20, Dare.