Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 42

Crossword puzzle

Across I—Get top trouble-maker on the telephone? (10) 7— Place frequented by spirits? (5) 8— Slender way to use United Nations initially. (7) 10— One means of making an attractive garden. (8) 11— With rot his audience may throw him off it! (4) 13— Retrogressive pomegranates surely don’t contain an apple ... (6) 15 — . . . but this could! (6) 17— Fine, perhaps, for traveller to pull it unreasonably (unless baling out!) (4) 18— 1 Across’s colleague is chicken with small church servant. (8) 21— The answer we hear when we hungrily suggest a salad dish? (7) 22— Does nothing but slide about. (5) . 23— No hope, men. (But a miracle can appear with extra point.) (10) Down 1— There’s nothing in the trick to wake one up. (5) 2— Get in, Ron, and have a gas eruption. (8) 3— Pre-shave excitement. (6) 4— Unaspirated 7, relatively speaking. (4) 5— West still opposite? What a sensation! (7) 6— Dramatic way to act the liar. (10) 9 — Cruise isn’t needed to watch closely. (10) 12— Japan’s capital needs something soothing to make train change here, possibly. (8) 14 — Withdrawal from race with slight wound. (7) 16— Rescue —from pawn shop? (6) 19 — Be it lemon or lime, London must have fruit therein. (5) 20 — Brook with fire damage? (4) (Solution on Monday) Yesterday’s solution Across: 6, Bloomer; 7. Pilot; 9, Ice; 10, Adherence; 12 Manufacture; 15, Undertaking; 17, Obliquely; 19, Win; 21, Gully; 22, Invoice. Down: 1, Black; 2, Not; 3, Herd; 4 Diverting; 5, Concert; 8. Remark; 11, Materials; 13, Untrue, 14, And blue; 16, Pitch; 18, Link; 20, Now.