Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33455, 9 February 1974, Page 12

Crossword puzzle

Across I—Come1 —Come to a hill. (6) 4— Bather in difficulties may gel out of it. (6) 9—We don’t know what to make of these unusual stage entrances. (5, 6-2) 10— Foolishly altering any line that’s not straight. (7; 11 — Greek for a pigeon. (5) 12 — A self-made counterfeiter may be so described. (5) 14 — Break an expert. (5) 18— Money is a bait that takes many in. (5) 19— Possibly claimed a point. (7) 21— Reverse the charge? (7-6) 22— Saying when? (6) 23— Ghostly colours? (6) Down 1 — Discharge an account and leave. (6i 2— Start relating what a would-be saver should do. (4. 2.7) 3— Patient caretaker. (5.) 5— The U.S. stock market may depend on him. (7) 6 — Take the lead for granted? (6, 7) 7— Empty article from a country. (6) 8— Sea-creature in a game of monopoly, perhaps! (5i 13— Make less sharp. (7) 15— Serene number in tartan. (6) 16— It’s an opening, we hear, for worship. (5i 17— Presumably anchors are lucky to have them! <6 20 — Type of song not to miss? (5) (Solution on Monday) Yesterday’s solution Across: 1, Desirability; 7. Bantu; 8, Amuse; 9, 111 10, Publisher; 11, Inward; 12. Rising; 15. Earnestly; 17, Par; 18. Libra; 19. Reply; 21, Stone-dresser. Down: 1. Dispiritedly; 2. Run; 3, Blurbs; 4 Liability; 5. Truth, 6, Refrigerator; ” Belov.; 10 Porcelain; 13, Imply; 14, Stared; 16, Robot, 20, Pie.