Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33421, 31 December 1973, Page 16

Crossword puzzle

• Across 1— Does it provide treatment for the hot and peevish? (3, 5) 5— Accustomed to being employed? (4) 9— Dancers may enjoy a quick one. (4) 10— If I react strangely it may be a trick! (8) 11— Speak for the government? (5) 12— Ways of approach that aren’t welcomed? (7) 13— Only patients with infectious diseases? (8, 5) 18— Honest view about retrograde art. (8) 19— A fly-by-night. (4) 20— He takes chances in his occupation (7) 21— A disposition to command. (5) 22— Care for ten. then five hundred. (4) 23— Wheel used for Russian roulette. (8) Down 2— Eastern lands willingly left. (7) 3— First-class for London. (7) 4— The price of waiting? (7, 6) 6— They go round but don’t join up. (7) 7— Comes into line for clothes. (7) 8— Sour sort of critic. (6) 13— Understanding in view. (7) 14— He enjoys a row with friends and rivals. (7) 15— A piece of land away from home. (6) 16— He has main control. (7) 17— Last, but not least? (7) (Solution on Wednesday) Saturday’s solution Across: 1, Besets; 4, Scamps; 9, Radioactivity; 10, Absence; 11, Known: 12, Aloud; 14, Strap; 18, Rates; 19, Patella; 21, Private school; 22, Legate; 23, Stakes. Down: I, Byroad; 2, Side-splitting; 3, Thom; 5, Cricket; 6, Maid of all work; 7, Saying; 8, Screw; 13, Upstart; 15, Propel; 16, Spree; 17, Vaults; 20, Tacit.