YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across: 6 Station; 7 Water; 9 Act; 10 Make merry; 12 Circular saw; 15 House arrest; 17 Plane tree; 19 May; 21 Under; 22 Counter. Down: 1 Stick; 2 Ate; 3 Sofa; 4 Gatecrash; 5 Hearsay; 8 Medlar; 11 Dissenter; 13 Charts; 14 Polling; 16 Rates; 18 Eros; 20 One.

ACROSS

Previously placed in front of a deck labourer (10) Correct adjustment of the girth (5)

Standing out as a foreigner in the street (7)

10. See 20 Down

11. A girl lacks final direction, unfortunately (4)

13. Do some stock-taking when Ulster is in turmoil (6)

15. Once a means of travel with attractive features, we hear (6)

17. What the artist uses makes movement easier (4)

18. Substitutes a position in the reserves (8)

21. Feels the cold when the French winter penetrates the ship (7)

22. Nora Templeton is about to hold forth (5)

23. Guiding a fellow to be the principal actor (7,3) 1. 7. 8.

ACROSS

1. Attack violently (6)

7. Swap (8)

8. Young foxes (4)

10. Topics (6)

11. Run naked (6)

14. Lair (3)

16. Swallows rapidly (5)

17. Prayer ending (4)

19. Antitoxin (5)

21. Country (5)

22. To father (5)

23. Cast off (4)

26. Shinbone (5)

28. Owing (3)

29. Scarcely (6)

30. Fuel gas (6)

31. Adjoin (4)

32. Brawny (8)

33. Happenings (6)

DOWN

Start to seek alms at home (5) Sporadically describing what completely wellmade clothes do (8) Submit calmly to the inevitable and give up office (6)

Healthy greeting, by the sound of it (4) Causes somebody irritation, and that’s almost unnecessary (7) Where some hard questioning goes on in restaurants! (10)

The teacher after a job proves to be a martinet (10)

12. Area specially designed to accommodate trippers! (8)

14. A realist, when upset, becomes cross (7)

16. Think logically for the cause (6)

19. Kind of store that’s twenty-two yards long (5) 20 & 10 Ac. No longer used as a vehicle for lively prose (4,8) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9.

DOWN

1. Ms Franklin, late singer (6)

2. Insight (6)

3. Not so much (4)

4. Shoulder firearm (7)

5. Prepare to pray (5)

6. Writing tables (5)

8. Yield (4)

9. Mr Kingsley, actor (3)

12. Spirit (3)

13. Fruit (5)

15. Ward off (5)

18. The press, TV, etc. (5)

19. Droop (3)

20. Rodent (3)

21. Envious (7)

22. Offer (3)

23. Stitch (6)

24. Hotness (4)

25. Cherished hopes (6)

26. Hand digit (5)

27. Lively and quick (5)

28. Give a title to (3)

30. Unclothed (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.