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YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS

... but bore fruit (7) 9—ln which to find an artist's early work? (10) ACROSS 1 Slot machine. 9 Echelon. 10 Maria. 11 Earn, 12 Corn Laws, 14 Loathe. 16 Stream, 18 Gunboats, 19 Echo. 22 Shift. 23 Plumage. 24 Typesetters DOWN 2 Lehar 3 Tale. 4 Amnion. 5 Humanity ...

Published: Tuesday 29 September 1992
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

different

... before they! po (!i) 13— haijigc direction in a different way (3f 14— It’s highly painfur(B) 15— Peel read out what did the Corn Laws (8) 19— I became a fair man (6) 20— Heack nervously to a surprise beginning (5) 21— Take over additional accoi imudation ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

□ MIKE INGHAM

... most significant shifts in the balance of the British economy since Cobden and Bright fought successsfuly for repeal of the Corn Laws nearly 150 years ago. Those two free trade campaigners are usually credited with helping make possible Britain’s world economic ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1993
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

Previous Neck-and-neck Results

... returned and 327 Conservatives, but on that occasion the Conservatives were split on the great issue of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and Sir Robert Peel, who led 105 Free Trade Conservatives, kept in office the Liberal administration of Lord John Russell ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The two cfOMword grids you see above are identical. Use one to tackle the quick clues, the other for the cryptic

... 17— Sends away for instructions (6) 18— The current recession (3) 23 Handle cattle (5) Peel read out what he did to the Corn Laws (8) 25 Start being involved (5) Deceives with misdeals, perhaps (8) 27 It may tremble seeing that writer (5) DOWN 2 Hare ...

Published: Monday 20 April 1992
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

TOUR correspondent DB Thomson points out that £lO today can be exchanged for just 28 Deutschmarks. In the 70s it

... a market France vetoed our admission to the EC unless abandoned the cheap food jwlicy we had followed since repealed the Corn Laws in 1843. What cheek! We pay Europe mountains of money because of huge loss in trade, in addition each average family of four ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

– Green-Eyed Food Multiples

... governments enact new legislation with monotonous regularity, they seem most reluctant to repeal it. (So much so, that when the Corn Laws were repealed in 1846 the event was commemorated by a proliferation of monuments throughout the countryside!) The result ...

tough line

... asking: “Must our troops be subject to a virtually uncontrolled gun law? He warned Mr Heath that the holding of private arms must be ■ made illegal Ulster, although he did not say how such law could. be enforced. political uniforms must be banned. Then, after ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1972
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The double c

... Newfoundland, 20 Stenographer. 23 Kefs, 24 Spasm, 25 Maps. 28 Exercise. Island. Satirist, 31 Writes DOWN - I Sixes and. 2 Corn laws, 3 Noes. 5 Phrenologist, « Char. 7 Amused. Erects, 11 Winning posts, 15 Costs, 16 Sneak, 18 Pheasant, 19 Crusades. Sevens ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1977
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Observer Diary

... Sir Robert Peel replaced the Whigs led by Lord Melbourne. Peel gave Britain her Bobbies, and her Free Trade, abolished the Corn Laws (hence the monument in Peterhead’s Broad Street and at Meethill); and (in the words of Chambers Information: 1849) “engaged ...

Cigs plea

... pointless (5) 3 A disfigured nose ages (4) 4—Attempt to get round tea-blending agreement (6) 5 Peel read out what he did to the Corn Laws (8) Present-day conclusion? (7). 7 Resistance leader whose aim was perfec- CRYPTIC PUZZLE •—Brief wanting gi—.y?' anon IJ-ff ...

Published: Monday 19 September 1977
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

REPRIEVE FROM THE JET AGE MENACE [the LONDON LETTER |

... wall nervous sensatlve about think that lam exaggerating noise were their predeoe®- and therefore they are not about Che Corn Laws, likely to be Ingiremeu by- such Home Rule and the legality fact that the of marrying deceased Wife's landing and take-ofl ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1967
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 6 | Tags: none