CROSSWORD

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Light wood

4 Hidden

7 Progeny

9 Snowy Mountains Authority (init)

10 Strips

12 Disembarked

13 Unintended cracks 15 Ancient Peruvian

17 Reactive compound

19 Consumed food

21 Growth

22 Imperils

23 Classified

DOWN

1 Weight lifter (4,7)

2 Type of beam

3 Disinclined

4 Seed cases

5 Of the kidneys

6 Not soaked

8 Compile

11 Fill with pride

14 Zoo worker

16 Underground hollows

18 Larceny

20 Wapitis

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 A slab of light timber

4 Concealed prude constituents

7 Offspring fall on six footers

9 Initially, the Snowy Mountains Authority was in Tasmania

10 Uncovers grizzlies, one might say

12 Got off some realities

13 Divulges outflows and lets the cat out of the bag

15 One who inhabited Peru, reincarnated briefly

17 Steer around a reactive compound

19 Some amateurs took a meal

21 The result of evolution

22 Takes a chance on hazards

23 Estimated the value of trade, for a change

DOWN

1 An automobile worker may become a muscle maker (4,7)

2 Earl’s acronymical device for producing light amplification

3 Opposed to a piece of poetry

4 The Post Office does

without schools of whales

5 Learn about that which relates to the kidneys

6 Fairly dry when not thoroughly imbued

8 Bring together a considerable number

11 To gladden is unrelated within

14 A curator may retain with hesitation

16 Grottos save carbon 18 Robbery from the feet

20 Self centred aftershocks of the largest of the deer family