Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 30

Crossword puzzle

across 7— Amongst non-professionals ten reveal slackness. 8— Many a close shave makes him smile, no doubt. (6) 10— Signal success mixed up with mirth. (7) 11— Some potential suicides oddly taken aback, being given medicine. (5) 12— Need to change the garden round. (4) 13— Leather bits returned. (5) 17— They are taken to in flight. (5) 18— At this point in the rehearsal. . . . (4 ) 22— . . he is banished from the complex (I leaxe, 23— Mean to have a long time after beginning 25. (7) 24— Dodge what mitiallv gets into 21 (6) 25— Disliking a 19. (6) Down 1— Praise insincerely—has more than lost sparkle. (7) 2— Roused once quoted. (7) 3— Put too difficult a question after felling tree. (5) 4— Orchestra observed cutting machine. (7) 5— Confound with a heavy blow. (5) 6— She won’t be missed any more. (5) 9— Paint the usual start to a game of chess. (5, 4) 14— again show shyness. (7) 15— Patches up broken marriages? (7) 16— Worships 14. (7) 19— Poetry- from 21. (5) 20— Underground worker who may cause things to blow up? (5) 21— Court beginning. (5) . (Solution on Monday) Yesterday’s solution Across: 1. Sleep; 4, Captain; 8. Ambling; 9. Owing; **». Dare: 11. Interest; 13. Game; 14. Edit; 16. Obliging; 17. Talc; 20. Diana; 21, Rostrum; 22. Rotated; 23, Down: 1. Standing order: 2, Ember; 3, Pain; 4, < gent; 5. Proceeds: 6. Aliment; 7, Nightwatchman: 12, Emigrant. 13. Gallant; 15. Snored: 18, Acres; 19, Asia.