Crossword: CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

5 Being affable, Mr Norman arrived early with debts

7 Ran across something within

8 An insignia is not the best to give out 1 0 The leading role by an equine class 1 2 NCOs put twilled worsted fabric on six footers

1 4 Categorised a betting medium you dealt harshly with

20 Don’t win without the foreigner overseas 2 1 An incidental comment from one team 22 Some swaggies play truant

23 Those who come next are achievers

DOWN

1 Gets to the front using level headed commercials

2 A degree of top kernels for a bread producer 3 In brief, a slender filament

4 From humble beginnings, the fellow becomes a race member

5 Informally use the mouth to allow for a glass 6 Dispatched a message to the southern specialist

9 The kind found in oxygen usually 11 Award topless houses to desert retreats 13 Quiet about points animals gather 15 An exclamation of concern at loggerheads with side-arms

16 Swamp we people with that which is spurious 17 Little echidnas hide a bloodsucker 18 Disciplined a small amount in Melbourne outskirts

19 ..... four, without the German frogman STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

5 Sociable 7 Encountered 8 Membership token 1 0 Type of horse 1 2 Police officers of rank 1 4 Indexed 20 Misplace 21 Apart 22 Humorous person 23 Followers

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1 Goes before 2 Pastrycook 3 Character 4 Relating to people 5 Drinking vessel 6 Transmitted 9 Class 11 Fertile desert places 13 Mouse-like mammals 1 5 Expression of woe 16 Counterfeit 1 7 Aquatic worm 18 Domesticated 19 Underwater worker