Crossword puzzle

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33493, 26 March 1974, Page 10

Crossword puzzle

Across I— What’s in store for an overweight egghead? (4) 3— Presumably myopic secret agent could use one. (8) 9— Reunite followers. (7) 10— Frequently belonging to the square root of 100. (5) ll— The company receive 1000 written requests in the contests. (12) 13— Stagger on the street becomes leisurely walk. (6) 15— Hag sat looking quite horrified. (6) 17— He lacks refinement and sparkle perhaps. (5, 7) 20— A dishy lover? (5) 21— Boarding-house provides something for retirement. (7) 22— What a chemist can’t do if you do it with him! (8) 23—Some of the savagest times. (4) Down 1— Predict that the actors will get to the front. (8) 2— A little drink gets me up — it’s the clan’s symbol. (5) 4— Such licence isn’t taken by prosaic people, (6) 5— Development hurts increasingly, it would seem. (7,5) 6— Feeler put out by girl going up to worker. (7) 7— Lower part of the kitchen? (4) 8— It takes a brain to understand the news. (12) 12—People of learning, no doubt. (8) 14— Is out, or tumultuous result. (7) 16— Assumes publicity spot wrongly. (6) 18— Go back to get victory inside, but still in debt. (5) 19— Second-hand, according to top American journalist. (4) (Solation tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution

Across: 6, General; 7, Jetty; 9, Minim; 10, Macadam; IZ, Livingstone; 14, Short-handed; 18, Germane; 19, State; 21, David; 22, Enlarge. Down: 1, Begin; 2, Gemini; 3, Tar; 4, Depart; 5, Strains; 8, Lagging; 11, Fishing; 13, Cheetah; 15, Remain 16, Entrap; 17, Stage; 20, End.