CRYPTIC CLUES

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Specious (9)

8. Hasten (3)

9. Perceptible (11)

11. Skill (7)

12. Spine (5)

13. Commend (6)

15. Tractable (6)

17. Upright (5)

18. Died out (7)

20. Impolite (3-8)

22. Lettuce (3)

23. Invigorated (9)

DOWN

2. Circuit (3)

3. Harsh (5)

4. Seethed (6)

5. Ban (7)

6. Wage earner (5-6)

7. Increase (9)

10. Stamp collector (11)

11. Pre-eminence (9)

14. Colonist (7)

16. Advantage (6)

19. Taut (5)

21. Sheep (3)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 7 Opaque; 8 Refute; 10 Retinue;

Truth; 23 Salient; 24 Casual; 25 Prolix.

DOWN: 1 Journal; 2 Tactful; 3 Funny; 4 Getaway; 5 Quota; 6 Reach; 9 Merciless; 14 Highway; 15 Steeple; 16 Pretext; 19 Stick; 20 Quash; 21 Glare.

ACROSS

1. Shallow, but not slow, air trip in the semidarkness (4-5) Beam is a fish? (3) Brief announcement given little time for preparation (5,6) Let peer reform in full (7) As used by the conductor innings going? (5) Feel sorry about rig-out worn by woman (6) A measure of success in university (6) They have their points as fasteners (5) What a sceptre should make one show? (7) Does he produce firm evidence of literacy? (11)

22. Everything in the deal looks fine (3)

23 Soak poets, as one might say (2,2,5)

Friday’s Solutions ACROSS: 7 Agents; 8 Intent; 10 Scuttle; Agree; 23 Incense; 24 Annual; 25 Recess. DOWN: 1 Cat’s-eye; 2 Refusal; 3 State; 4 Ensigns; 5 Veils; 6 15 Printer; 16 Intense; 19 Pagan; 20 Trunk; 21 Screw.

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20. 11 to keep the first circles 11

Attic;

Abut; 13

Scrap; 17

Silly; 18

Stir; 22

DOWN

2. Wood whether burnt or not? (3)

3. Given illumination again in a measure (5)

4. Fifty to go to a wood to humble themselves (6)

It enables one to have protection at one’s fingertips (7)

Upset at deferring to close acquaintance (5,6)

Bonny sect, as everyone agrees (2,7) No rise for cripple in crash, in accordance with code of conduct (2,9)

Immediately produce article manner (5,4)

Dreams there’s nothing in six transgressions (7)

In favour of suitable gain (6)

Gets rid of huts (5)

Age of some rats (3) 5. 6.

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Idler; 12

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Year;

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Skins;

Story; 9

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Sight; in correct

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Deck chair; 14

Iron;

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Liberal;