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Press, 25 February 1987, Page 18

Across 1— Terribly posh store. (4) 8— a billet-doux! (4,6) 9— State of a girl. (8) 10— A butler from the Middle East? (4) 12— A dog died in a Dorset harbour. (6) 14— Suffocate itself somehow. (6) 15— A boy at street level. (6) 17— Fool Mr Lincoln, the Zimbabwean statesman. (6) 18— Underwear item and shirt for a child. (4) 19— Derision upsets Raymond Burr’s detective. (8) 21— Make me pay a penalty in rent for an improvement. (10) 22— To make a fuss. (2,2) Down 2— A chopper with blades. (10) 3— A stopper you might hear on a chat show. (4) 4— A place for a street. (6) 5— Folds in pastel design. (6) 6— Going off course like a confused stingray. (8) 7— A larva’s food. (4) 11— Strong and healthy, despite being boiled up in a bed. (4-6) 13— A joint badly violated. (8) 16— Caught, but not riveted. (6) 17— Tied up the journalist by the back-room. (6) 18— A spell in prison for a common girl. (4) 20— Establish a place for the badgers, say. (4) (Solution tomorrow) Yesterday’s solution Across: 7, Round; 8, Sitting; 9, Esparto; 10, Draft; 12, Life policy; 15, Right dress; 18, Halve; 19, Shocked; 21, Fitting; 22, Lithe. Down: 1, Free church; 2, Jumpy; 3, Oder; 4, Ashore; 5, Studious; 6, Titanic; 11, Toy soldier; 13, Intrepid; 14, Agility; 16, Resign; 17, Skate; 20, Oils.