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Across I—Shoot game. (4) 3— Don’t give up getting the unit back into shape. (8) 8— Standard feature of Saturn or Mars. (4) 9— Banished and, indeed, left at sea. (8) 11— Presumably the odds are weighted in his favour, (5, 7) 13— He cruelly controls new depots. (6) 14— American officer shows the flag. (6) 17 — He sent a cable setting out accounts. (7-5) 20— Time soon modifies feelings. (8) 21— Sicilian hothead. (4) 22— Showea tnat one’s judgment as an angler had become clouded. (8) 23— The best-known surviving creatures? (4) Down 1— Use hands to make some protection from heat. (8) 2— High lines to take. (7) 4— A prose version of musical performances. (6) 5— He performs extensively on a sliding scale. (10) 6— In the garden it reinforces saltpetre. (5) 7— Objects and doesn’t go on. (4) 10—He has a burning desire. (10) 12— Writes one’s first letters. (8) 15— show sluggishness, i.e. train sloppily. (7) 16— Angry outbursts in play. (6) 18— Got up a national emblem for England. (5) 19— One brave among the Cherokees. (4) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 1, Free and easy; 9, Ailment; 10, Right;. 11, Force; 12, Cast out; 13, Repute; 15, Sprawl; 18,' Tillage; 20, Arson; 22, Eland; 23, Affairs; 24, Personality. Down: 2, Ruler; 3, Element; 4, Notice: 5, Earns; 6, Signora; 7, Half-brcrther; 8. Stateliness; 14, Pillage; 16, Playful; 17, Regain; 19, Andes; 21, Shift.