Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33069, 9 November 1972, Page 26

Crossword puzzle

Across 4— Little devil teaching to beg. (7) 8— Calculate ... (6) 9— . . . differently, following king’s head on front door, perhaps. (7) 10— Majesty curtailed, confused, and all washed up. (6) 11— Produce—and go! (3, 3) 12— Strain to make use of it in the kitchen. (8) 18— Beauty of form shown by a thousand in peculiar mystery. (8) 20— Muffler needed to return about a great commotion. (6) 21— Don’t stop sobbing about a coloured pencil. (6) 22— Failure of French umpire’s tennis call. (7) 23— Young animal surrounds possessive girl’s angelic child. (6) 24— Ideas—to cure noisy snuffles? (7) Down 1— Throw out a scheme. (7) 2— Run hastily to pull out the plug? (7) 3 — Act on sea territory. (6) 5— Interwoven letters of doctor on about metric unit. (8) 6— Find small firm back in former surroundings. (6) 7— Melancholy in true, fulsome fashion. (6) 13— Break up when defeat (a complete reversal) is in headlong descent. (8) 14— Good long-distance runners unpopular with hosts who want to go to bed! (7) 15— Alongside twice in the near future. (2-3-2) 16— Flog part of a gun. (6) 17— Get together laboriously for a shave. (6) 19— Spoil throw, the ground being too damp? (6) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 1, Undercharge: 9, Lob: 10, Alligator; 11, Eagle; 13, Reliefs; 14, Novice: 16, Action; 18, Terrace; 19, Dogma; 20, Viewpoint; 21, Awl; 22, Astronomers. Down: 2, Nib; 3, Evade; 4, Celery; 5, Angelic; 6, Gathering; 7, Alternative; 8, Presentable; 12, Governess; 15, Clapper; 17, Design; 19, Datum; 21, Air.