Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 30

Crossword puzzle

Across I—Trade vessel. (5) 4—Take a trip? (7) 8— Where children may go between two and five. (7) 9 Part of a cake showing some fantastic ingenuity. (5) 10— Has scattered snow. (4) 11— Being grounded perhaps, he gets the worst of it (8) 13— Get together when there’s something to celebrate. (4) 14— It’s sure to upset an employer. (4) 16— Dismissed, just for being unqualified. (8) 17— Transport will be back at eleven. (4) 20— Country name found in certain dialects. (5) 21— Nothing to share but an address. (7) 22 Objectives a sailor acquires. (7) 23 A supporter of the Arts. (5) Down 1— A professional twister. (13) 2 Front cover. .(5) 3 Not now the capital of Norway. (4) 4 Uttering an adage. (6) 5 All that is sure, perhaps, about a tangled vine. (8) 6 He may put up a house for sale. (7) 7 Continuous bleep or a ring perhaps. (7, 6) 12— I’m engaged in property valuation. (8) 13 — His intention is to do more than score a bull. (7) 15 — Photographs new plants. (6) 18— Make staid entrances. (5) 19— Stop sleeping at the stem. (4) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 3, Lost cause; 8, Etna; 9, Misinform;. 10, Threat; 11, Stain; 14, Tonic; 15, Rods; 16, Halma; 18, Ahem; 20, Clear; 21, Sadie; 24, Beaten; 25, Registers; 26, Item; 27, At any rate. Down: 1, Death trap; 2, Entrances; 4, Omit; 5, Taint; 6. Affair; 7, Sort; 9, March; 11, Solve; 12, Nonentity; 13, Astronomy; 17, Acres; 19, Malign; 22, Inter; 23, Heat; 24, Brat