Across

Press, 25 March 1980, Page 16

Across

1— Setting a lofty tone by camping on a mountain? (4-7) 9—Very hard stuff made by firsj male worker (7) 10— Be niggardly about a conventional day’s work? (5) 11— They get engaged in gear.- (5) 12— Scrutineer, we hear, may mark with coloured squares.’(7) 13— Take ill being made to go again. (6) 15— Stress having small coin on account. (6) 18— Ritual perfume may anger. (7) 20— To the time some farmers had begun tilling. (5) 22— Many have an arm or leg fo raise themselves, (5) 23— Tell more untruths — abouf five — to survive. (7) 24— Had a meal in a fit of rage, indulging to-excess. (ID Down 2— Speed after, one, being angry. (5) 3 — Pagan way to cook’chicken? (7) 4— Complete in diplomacy, (6) 5 — Actors going east form social class. (5) 6— Pie broken — remedy for the gourmet, (7) 7— Teacher takes bit to produce his best achievement. (11) 8— Apparently (he narrator can’t speak the truth. (5-> 6) 14— Division caused when no one backs a dissenting group, (7) 16— Opposing reckoner. (7) 17— Make good second successful hit? (6) 19— Count, for example. (5) 21— Kind of tobacco swindle? (5) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: Ti. Mandarin; 5, Scar; 9, Aces; 10, Actuated; 11, Pagan; 12, Ensnare; 13, Spiritualists; 18, Rotation; 19, Ears; 20, Almonds; 21, Fatal; 22, East; 23, Gyration.' Down: 2, Arc-lamp; 3, Despair; 4, Incredulously; 6, Cutlass; 7, Redress; 8, Mussel, 13, Serrate} 14, Isthmus; 15, Intent; 16, Inexact; 17, Tornado.