Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33387, 20 November 1973, Page 32

Crossword puzzle

Across 1 — Being indisposed in the holiday leads to uncertainty of action. (11) 9—Walk that follows a single dance. (3-4) 10—Some of the college lecturers due to take up office. (5) 11 and 15 Ac.—They remove the ground from beneath assistant colliers. (11) 12— Not a place in the market where beef is sold! (2-5) 13— Throat infection — you’ll get the bird. (6) 15— See 11 Across. 18— Being unable to settle down makes a small number crazy, I see. (7) 20— This girl has opposite directions about America. (5) 22— Makes an approach to northern listeners. (5) 23— Stage-door, maybe, for singers in variety. (7) 24— But they don’t necessarily contain funeral cards. (4-7) Down 2— What a principal has managed to get! (5) 3— Restricts people’s movements in revolutions, we hear. (7) 4 — Could it be a greyhound going round the track? (3-3) 5— Overhead lock. (5) 6— Do some cutting in the theatre. (7) 7— In practice he’s a stand-in. (5-6) 8— No outmoded state. (11) 14— Thoroughly search for strong drink before the game is ruined. (7) 16— Practical knowledge in particular location, one hears. (7) 17— He wrote a schoolboy translation in the southeast (6) 19— Given a course in physics. (5) 21— This will pierce some of the oyster’s pearls. (5) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday's solution Across: 1, Reaction; 5, Bond; 9, Menu; 10, Adhesive; 11. Voile; 12. Italics; 13. Ready-reckoner; 18, Mainstay; 19, Then; 20. Aramaic; 21, Witan; 22. Tied; 23. Esteemed Down: 2. Eyesore; 3, Coupled; 4, Old-time dances; 6, Opinion; 7. Dresser; 8. Remark; 13, Rampart; 14, Agitate; 15. Yes-man; 16. Outline; 17, Elevate.