No-dictionary X-word

Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

No-dictionary X-word

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Simple words, most of them in everyday use, are used in this weekly crossword, entry in which is free to ‘ Sports Special ’ readers. The first correct solution opened will be awarded three (3) tickets in the current national art union (of which the first prize is £2,000); the second correct solution opened will receive two (2) tickets, and the third will receive one (1) ticket. Prizes will be posted promptly, and the winners’ names and addresses published, together with the correct solution, in the following issue of the * Sports Special.’ Although the solution is known only to the crossword editor, members of the staff of the ’ Evening Star ’ Company Ltd. are not eligible for the competition. So far as is known, there are no alternatives. The following conditions must be observed:—(l) The printed blank must be used and must be filled in distinctly; (2) name and address must be attached; (3) solution must be addressed “ Crossword Editor,” and be lodged at the ‘ Evening Star ’ Office by 5 p.m. on the Tuesday following the Saturday of publication; (4) not more than one entry may be sent in by any one person; (5) no correspondence may be entered into.

ACROSS. 1 Animal’s home. 10 Chile}). 14 Working or performing. 15 Formerly in one sense. 16 Four-sided but not square. 17 Eloquent if good ones. 19 Squared for a century. 20 South African. 21 Anoint. 22 Head and tail of 4 down. 23 None excepted. 24 To free or remove. 26 Draw back. 29 Doubled singular river. 30 They sleep on poles. 34 Serene. 35 Publisher's quantities. 38 There’s measure in the girl, 39 Rather foolish. 40 Possesses. 42 Certainly at the opera. 43 Torn, 44 Subject to sea movement 45 Threatened.

DOWN. 1 Binding material. 2 More pal he (anagram). 3 None provides this. 4 A limb.5 Talks inarticulately. 6 Blanch by lack of light. 7 Cereal. 8 Terminates 32 9 Important part of one 10-Secreting body. 11 Chide. 12 Reefs. 13 Dry up. 18 Predatory invasion. 23 Perfume. 25 Renders aid. 27 Perhaps “ knell of parting day.' 28 Boredom. 31 Resin for kind of wash. 32 Possibly indelible. 33 Five to” a foot. 34 One of ancient race. 36 Monarch of ancient Peru, 37 Cast off. 41 Opens 21 across 43 Opens 26 across.