Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 24

Crossword puzzle

Across 3 A good reason can’t be found for championing it. (4, 5) 8— Turn back before it erupts. (4) 9 Make a mistake in an account. (9) 10— Menace of the Mad Hatter. (6) 11— Mark of a saint, perhaps. (5) 14— The keynote of medicine. (5) 15— -Punitive measures? (4) 16— A game to play in a lethal manner. (5) 18— In the morning he gives a slight cough. (4) 20— Acquit the prisoner and empty the court. (5) 21— She has different ideas. (5) 24 Struck and defeated. (6) 25 Signs in and makes an impression. (9) 26 Make a note of the time. (4) 27 You mustn’t drive this in restricted areas, whatever may happen. (2,3, 4) Down 1— There’s a fatal catch in it. (5, 4) 2 Carries away the gates. (9) 4 Forget I’m about to come up. (4) 5 It isn’t corruption it is corruption! (5) 6 Business concern? (6) 7 Separate kind? (4) 9—An advance that comes once a year. (5) 11— Possibly loves to find the right answer. (5) 12— Ninety-ton order, yet one of no account. (9) 13— He’s a far-seeing man who follows this career. (9) 17— Possibly cares for pieces of land. (5) 19— Defame a large number and get into a row. (6) 22 Nitre, perhaps, put into the ground. (5) 23 Trial run in the theatre. (4) 24 Some cherub? Rather the reverse! (4) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 1, Sore; 3, Studious; 8, Apse; 9, Lipstick; 11, False colours; 13, Spread; 14, Grocer; 17, Looking glass; 20, Handbook; 21, Akin; 22, Cornered; 23, Tree. Down: 1, Starfish; 2, Rustler; 4, Tailor, 5, Discourage; 6, Osier; 7, Sake; 10, Remarkable; 12, Presence; 15, Cracker; 16, Encore; 18, Owner; 19, Chic.