Crossword, puzzle

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32776, 29 November 1971, Page 24

Crossword, puzzle

Across 1— Hostile measures? (3-6) 8— One is confused for a long time. (3) 9 A total loss all right? (7, 4) 11— Admitted being deceived? (5, 2) 12— Paid a number for a hammer. (5) 13— Such work may be a rush job! (6). 15— Lack bite? (6) 17— Nautical cunning? (5) 18— He keeps saying I get it so mixed up. (7) 20— Get new owners and new staff? (6, 5) 22 Prolong some week-ends. (3) 23 Turns a blind ye to the French estimates. (9) Down 2 An occasion for trouble. (3) 3 A right that’s strange. (5) 4 Convincing company man. (6) 5 Some trickery doesn’t amount to much, we hear. (7) 6 Possibly one’s private abomination. (3, 8) 7 Has a lack of balance, owing to others. (9) 10— Possibly checks a neat gamble. (4, 7) 11— News broadcaster. (4-5). 14— Passage taken from a pamphlet. (7) 16— Indian bangle, perhaps. (6) 19— To return to her is not the same. (5) 21 — It may be fast, but only without running. (?' (Solution tomorrow) Saturday’s solution Across: 7. Putter; 8, Cut off; 10, Reissue; 11, Noise; 12, Noel; 13, Spent; 17, Weird; 18, Pier; 22, Plane; 23, Tillers; 24, Tender; 25, Unison. Down: 1, Sparing; 2, Attired; 3, Least; 4, Running; 5, Tonic; 6, Utter; 9. Desperate; 14, Deleted; 15, Disease; 16, Present; 19, Spots; 20, Manna; 21, Blond.