CROSSWORD
Straight Clues ACROSS
5 Most frightful
7 Debt
8 Recognised truth
10 A department in southern France
12 Replace in authority
14 Potassium nitrate
20 Cease to have
21 Fourth month
22 Enthusiastic devotee
23 Choices
DOWN
1 Fertile desert place
2 Postage sticker
3 Rector
4 Apart
5 Persons of great size
6 Having foot digits 9 Expels
11 Seize and hold without right
13 Praises
15 Exclamation of sorrow
16 One who dislikes company
17 Cash register (coll)
18 Pastry concoctions
19 Mistake
Cryptic Clues ACROSS
5 Glass tithe components are the most hideous
7 An acknowledgement of a
debt is a little odious
8 A universally accepted principle from the taxi ombudsman
10 Claude hides where Carcassonne lies
12 Displace in office by another splendid seed, say
14 At last, Peter uses gunpowder
20 Fail to keep in the closet
21 A month in Capri lately
22 Cause air to blow upon a follower
23 The overseas sections of options
DOWN
1 A place that provides welcome relief from Samoa’s islands
2 Put one’s foot down to impress
3 The clergyman is in the civic area
4 An incidental remark from a team
5 A US soldier and six-footers become very big people
6 Sounds like a froglike amphibian having foot digits
9 Dislodges you finally from holy people
11 To take demand
13 Dignifies honours
15 An expression of grief from a young lady, perhaps
16 A solitary hermit
17 Till carpet erosion
18 Pies start differently
19 A transgression blunder