Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 20

Crossword puzzle

Across I—Where one goes to get rid of ill-feelings. (6-6) 7 An upright group of employees. (5) 8— A smart kind of accent. (5) 9 The girl loses her head. Help! (3) 10— Finished after only half the distance—stretched out. (9) ■•••..,■ 11— Father and mother going round an American republic. (6) 12— Craftily manipulate the western viewpoint (6) 15— Once tried to be obscure. (9) 17— A bit of twentieth-csntury espionage? Certainly. (3) 18— Sound reason for jangled nerves. (5) 19— Put a watch on. (5) 21—Produces a firm basis—cost on deal is revised. (12) Down 1— Seemingly, he must succeed. (4-8) 2 From which one drives, we hear, for a light meal. (3) 3 Don’t accept what has been rejected. (6) 4 This position on the ; board is , far from new, chum. (9) 5 A game of golf for the canon. (5) 6 Those who give notice can’t be accused of this. (1?) ■ : ' 7 Used another chair inside. (5) . 10—Bullies those who work around the pit (9) . 13—Made fun of the conductor, we hear. (5) 14—Weapon ton one in complicated plots. (6) 16— Capital needed for company about to broadcast (5) 20— Mother comes back in a frenzy. (3) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 4, Abashed; 8, Outset; 9, Clouded; 10, Fiends; 11, Secret; 12, Apple-pie; 18, Open-cast; 20, Static; 21, Rapier; 22, Rankled; 23, Please; 24, Address. Down: 1, Wolfram; 2, Attempt; 3, Needle; 5, Bull's eye; 6, Source; 7, Eleven; 13, Proceeds; 14, Capital; 15, Stormed; 16, Strand; 17, Stoker, 19, Neatly.