CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4243

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Rubbish

4 Sponsorship

7 One who distrusts people

9 Affirmation

10 Earlier NRL team name

12 Poisonous snakes

13 Aquatic furred

mammal

15 Region

17 Cricket trophy

19 Australian state (init)

21 Pottery

22 Count up

23 Don clothes

DOWN

1 Natural disposition

2 Beasts of burden

3 Truthful

4 Grey

5 Lacking refinement

6 Acquired relatives

8 Brings up

11 Drink one’s health

14 Deserved

16 Place on a list

18 Hoist

20 Milk serum

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 Utterly destroy some of the extra shoes

4 Is age recycled for protection?

7 One who distrusts

humankind is a manhater

9 Certainly, in my estimation

10 Tip top seas in the Eastern Suburbs NRL club

12 Egyptian cobras pass out

13 Plotters conceal a carnivorous musteline mammal

15 The extent of an open space

17 Crash essentially into the embers of a camp fire

19 In answer to a state

21 Listen, then somehow wear baked clay

22 Reckon up some metal lyres

23 Treat wounds with a onepiece outer garment

DOWN

1 A state of uncontrolled anger puts amen to early mental characteristics

2 Grass especially is for donkeys

3 In the telephone station,

fair dinkum!

4 Cash your chips in when

greyish

5 Irving Rossiter is 144

6 Acquired relatives tread on

nurses

8 Backs more arsonists

11 Raise one’s glass to astronauts

14 Was entitled to have made money

16 Register, and become a member

18 Lift with force in the avenue

20 It accompanies curds in few heydays