40-minute puzzle

Press, 2 January 1979, Page 8

40-minute puzzle

Across 1— Muddled masters run down to the sea. (7) s—Lo,5 —Lo, the changes in a place to stay. (5) 8 — Bring out of water—just this. (4) 9 — Strong in making a noise through the nose. (8) 10— May part in real confusion, though the language is decorous. (13) 13— Girl taken back for a meal. (4) 14— Pay right inside and ask. (4) 17 — Solo singer can come unstuck, as in an assembly. (13) 19— Mabel is lost in stormy French sea but will preserve a body. (8) 20— Did Abel’s brother turn up in Mexico? (4) 21 — Talks-—of ways of getting slim? (5) 22— See spar and cast around to say something insulting. (7) Down 2— I want a change of country. (6) 3— Troops step this way. (7) 4— Maltreat his man—led all about. (9) 5— You’ll see Indians in "Ben Hur” on television. (S) 6— Try rain in confusion for a threefold answer (7) 7— Cricket scores without a stroke; out on a limb by the sound of it. (3-4) 11 — So pure sex is out when taking pictures. (9) 12— Laid down the law of French system of belief. (7) 13— Distinguish Lone Ben a different way. (7) 15— I gaze on chaos and sutler anguish. (7) 16— Swells out comedies. (6) 18— Annoys and upsets the Spanish, sir. (5)