Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 May the Picts have been seen as compassionate?

6 They reconstruct things when sorer about the others going first

9 A word of agreement about a young bird

1 0 Loser at last portrays a stable attendant

1 2 Bristle-like part in single Greek letter

1 4 Embraces types of boots

1 7 Mail a new way in a mess with a thin layer

1 9 Facial twitches from topless antics

2 1 Take revenge and even the score

22 A secret tip lurched – you beauty!

DOWN

1 Half-nosy head movements in church districts

2 Overlooking French sea is a lot tasting red wine 3 Rearranged seats provide an advantage

4 Get with the pay finally for those people

5 Swear at copper bends

7 Second showing of program about a continuous course of performances

8 Spots hives

11 Type of dance music a lass plays

1 3 The southernmost of the Great Lakes rises early in ease

1 5 Way to get in with gold for an elaborate cake

1 6 In the East, lines are seen to be broken because of old age

1 8 A native of Baghdad is round about Queensland inclusions, initially

1 9 Fall over on a day out

20 A clot produces carbon tax on line for starters

STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS

1 Congenial

6 Those restoring

9 A nestling

1 0 Stable attendant

1 2 Bristle-like appendage

1 4 Types of boots

1 7 A thin plate

1 9 Muscular twitches

2 1 Return like for like

22 Comeliness

DOWN

1 Church councils

2 Red wine

3 Something useful

4 Those people

5 Curse (coll)

7 Second showing

8 Impetuous

11 Lively dance music

1 3 A Great Lake

1 5 Type of cake

1 6 Slightly demented

1 8 One from Baghdad

1 9 Voyage

20 Conventional Take Off and Landing (init)