CRYPTIC CLUES

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Stray (4)

8. Unlettered (10)

9. Organiser (8)

10. Cry (4)

12. Street (6)

14. Prove (6)

15. Attic (6)

17. Poverty (6)

18. Main character (4)

19. Conquer (8)

21. Sign (10)

22. Bound (4)

DOWN

2. Shorten (10)

3. Resolute (4)

4. Dress (6)

5. Famish (6)

6. Hostility (8)

7. Transaction (4)

11. Tearful (10)

13. Dulling drug (8)

16. Chest (6)

17. Summary (6)

18. Greet (4)

20. Tilt (4)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 7 Nurse; 8 Emanate; 9 Habitue;

Round; 19 Furnish; 21 Recital; 22 Scorn.

DOWN: 1 In the chair; 2 Bribe; 3 Left; 4 Recess; 5 Password; Anecdote; 14 Staunch; 16 Enfold; 17 Bijou; 20 Risk. 10

Swiss;

Days gone by; 6 15

Mariner;

At the ready; 11

Say nothing; 18 13

DOWN

2. Strictly applicable restrictions for objects used in play (10)

Bitter sweet (4)

Clever enough to put article in sea-water (6)

Confections we put in groups (6) Telegram by a French friend is not hostile (8)

Part of the arrow he tried to sharpen (4) Fix the way to prepare the table for part of a meal (3,1,6)

Parts to notice, maybe, in the ship (8) 16 Somehow fires about fifty weapons (6) Money offered as inducement for mutinous ship (6)

Shrewd wedge-shaped structure (4)

The end of two pieces of neckwear (4)

ACROSS

1. Notice the spinners returning (4)

8. Fletcher by another name (10)

9. Hot-tempered woman helped to repel the Germans (8)

See 21 Across The sort of reception for loud, garbled story? (6) Boasts footwear has been restyled (6) Gripping kind of movement unsettles the prince (6) Opening part of a gun, one hears (6) Endlessly on the move for wine (4) Productive description of loaded (8)

21. & 10 Ac. Summed up the charge? (7,3,4)

22. Sounds as though part of the play is witnessed (4)

Yesterday’s Solutions ACROSS: 7 Idled; 8 Barrage; 9 Incense; 19 Auditor; 21 Present; 22 Amaze. DOWN: 1 Divisional; 2 Black; 3 Odin; 4 Abbess; 5 Islander; 14 Debased; 16 Scanty; 17 Steak; 20 Draw.

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19. apple-tree? 10

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Pound; 12

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First-class;

Tropical; 6

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Needlessly;

Natural; 11

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Learn;

Discharged; 13