YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
Across: 6 Keepers; 7 Get on; 9 Alien; 10 Opaline; 12 Private ward; 14 Make a report; 18 Pass out; 19 Steak; 21 Ashes; 22 Engrave. Down: 1 Cells; 2 Appear; 3 Dry; 4 Fellow; 5 Joiners; 8 Epitaph; 11 Overdue; 13 Malaise; 15 Easter; 16 Retire; 17 Carve; 20 Inn.
ACROSS
1. 3.
Go in search of a chalet round the north (4)
Give an approximate value for a different site, my friend (8) 9. Engine component required, but got name mixed up (7) 10. Secret place for money, by the sound of it (5) 11. Instructor at the School of Artillery? (6,6) 13. Do I act in the guise of an Indian thug? (6) 15. Street dog gone astray (6) 17. Get up before ten (4,3,5) 20. Coming from the north it’s unpleasantly piercing (5) 21. Reduces to the bare essentials (7) 22. Produce a second rating (8) 23. See 18 Down
ACROSS
5. Chooses (4) 7. Famous (10) 8. Twofold (4) 10. Horse’s gait (4) 12. Hawaiian garland (3) 13. Foundation garment (6) 16. Royal (5) 18. Managed (3) 20. Slightly open (4) 21. Genuine (4) 22. Slope downwards (3) 24. Lowest point (5) 25. Ebb (6) 26. Glue (3) 27. Conservative (4) 29. Norse god (4) 33. Each alternate (5,5) 34. Twelve inches (4)
DOWN
Domestic servant, we hear, not turned out of a factory! (4-4) An important Ethiopian drink (5) Southern Irish lake becomes a marsh (6) Lightly heated in container of French perfume! (12)
Old, broken tin-can holding the end of a candle (7)
They produce young animals for some of the vintage westerns (4) Here are the liqueurs, brothers (12)
12. The rest stop making complaints (8)
14. Cameron diverted to Italian location (7)
16. Colonial pioneer in the Dodecanese (6)
18 and 23Ac. In a state of military preparedness, supplies insufficient weapons (5,4)
19. Back in December it seemed to cause provocation (4) 1. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
DOWN
1. Lower limb (3)
2. Expensive (4)
3. Unruly child (4)
4. Pig pen (3)
5. Strange (3)
6. Pamphlet (5)
9. Fold in clothing (5)
10. Declamation (6)
11. Make mistakes (3)
13. Genetic copy (5)
14. Indian dress (4)
15. Vigour, force, etc. (6)
17. Boy’s name (4)
19. Ornamental feather (5)
23. Dowel (3)
25. Wireless (5)
27. Playthings (4)
28. Ceremony (4)
30. Mesh (3)
31. Tasselled cap (3)
32. Beer barrel (3)
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.