CROSSWORD Straight Clues

ACROSS

2 Stoops 7 One of the

Great Lakes 8 Egg-shaped 9 Slightly wet 10 Female relative 11 Red-hot ash 13 Organisation

sections 16 Sliding storage box 18 Climbing plant 19 Expression of grief 20 Remain 21 Repair 22 Becomes dormant

DOWN

1 Claimed as a right 2 Hold for ransom 3 Tidy 4 Spit 5 Shadowy 6 Blonde 12 Hangs 14 Continually 15 Dins 17 Speed of movement 18 Improvise

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

2 Bends down and keels over,

to a point 7 A Great Lake sounds weird 8 Elliptical level playing field 9 Some odd amphibians become moist 10 In sauntered mum’s sister 11 Finally remembers smouldering pieces of coal, etc 13 Leave with fellows on the way back to government branches 16 Reward an artist 18 It creeps to the NE after six 19 Topless koalas,

unfortunately 20 Reside permanently in a street outside Albury 21 Fix up commendations within 22 Goes into a trance and

hibernates

DOWN

1 Ordered to somehow declare unfit, indeed 2 Carry off billy with the taking 40 winks 3 New beginners side against being shipshape 4 Clear the throat and hope to deliver a speech 5 Gloomy, dark, dull and

dismal grave 6 Only just a bazaar 12 Puts off and renders

inoperative temporarily 14 Forever north, south, east,

and west? 15 Sounds like rackets 17 Classify strategic inclusions 18 MP got behind in Virginia

but pieced it together