Crossword-Solution: ACKROYD 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

They had passed along the lane until the facade of the building had come into view and they were able to read its signboard: “Ackroyd & Bolt, Licensed Rectifiers.” “I thought it looked like a distillery,” continued Merriman in considerable excitement.

The director of a distillery company would have more hold on the manager of their own tied houses than over an outsider.” Again Willis nodded without replying, and Hunt went on: “Now it happens that these Ackroyd & Holt people own some very large licensed houses in Hull, and it is to them I imagine, that we should first direct our attention.” “How do you propose to begin?” “I think we must first find out how the Ferriby liquor is sent to these houses.

Ackroyd & Holt evidently supplied a very large number of licensed houses, but of these the names of only five appeared on the doubtful blocks.

Trans-Asiatic Directs we met, soberly ringing the world round the Fiftieth Meridian at an honest seventy knots; and white-painted Ackroyd & Hunt fruiters out of the south fled beneath us, their ventilated hulls whistling like Chinese kites.

Something to do with literature.' Ackroyd broke into another laugh--louder this time, and contemptuous.