& STARS

Timely reports from the Bible (10) The boat trade (5) This port is a beastly place to settle! (4) One’s professional life is a mad rush (6) Here most will be diverted to a sanatorium (4,4) Anxiety about order for material once providing illumination (7) 11. Supplying different gear and providing compensation (10) 13. Scoundrels from a house

in the south (8) 14. Applaud a demand on

the insurer, we hear (7) 16. Prophetic agencies, but they sound as though they could be boring (6) 17 & 18Ac. Noted system loudly appearing in different locations (5,3-2) Advance unaccompanied, one hears (4) This puzzle has no clues. Instead, every number printed in the grid represents a letter, with the same number always representing the same letter. For example, if 8 turns out to be a V, you can write in V wherever a square contains 8. Using your knowledge of words, complete the puzzle.