Crossword Puzzle

NO. 16 034

Quick Clues ACROSS

1. Deviation (11)

9. Strive (7)

10. Detect (5)

11. Breeding places (5)

12 Neglect (7)

13. Debilitate (6)

15. Attorney (6)

18. Carry out (7)

20. Hymn (5)

22. Despondency (5)

23. Helping (7)

24. Nonsensical (11)

DOWN

2. Fetters (5)

3. Superintend (7)

4. Centre (6)

5. Rubber (5)

6. Calamity (7)

7. Recognise (11)

8. Evaluation (11)

14. Windflower (7)

16. Clothing (7)

17. Intensify (6)

19. Unnerve (5)

21. Wrong (5)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Director; 5 Oslo; 9 List; 10 Atropine; 11 Miner; 12 Include; 13 Sleeplessness; 18 Outright; 19 Tube; 20 Treason; 21 Brain; 22 Note; 23 Bewilder.

DOWN: 2 Initial; 3 Extreme; 4 Outside chance; 6 Seizure; 7 Oneness; 8 Forces; 13 Shorten; 14 Entreat; 15 Priest; 16 Natural; 17 Subside.

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1. Are they higher than footmen? (11)

9. For thirty seconds one has quiet at least

(7)

10. Time for music (5) 11. Dependable form of alloy (5)

12. Did a rough job of cleaning (7)

13. I am in pursuit in a carriage (6)

15. Plant entirely consumed by a greedy creature (6)

18. Overhead lines (7)

20. A trimming of lace, one gathers (5)

22. Film star hero on the roof (5)

23. Perfume made to provoke? (7)

24. A direct route provided immediately (11)

DOWN

2. 3. A People negative with in such some depressions trouble (5) may still look happy (7) 4. Not quite a fifty majority (6) 5. It’s said in France to be the same (5) 6. Possibly one rule man has broken (7) 7. Infant being looked after for no great cost (5,6)

8. He clears the way for us (11)

14. Circus performer who travels by air, car and boat perhaps (7) 16. Fruit transported to Capri (7) 17. Demanding, like royalty can be? (6) 19. Boxing ring takes an age to erect (5)

21. This dance can go all over the place (5)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Legatees; 5 Stem; 9 Mess; 10 Scorpion; 11 Utter; 12 Candida; 13 Crossword clue; 18 Underpay; 19 Slug; 20 Barmaid; 21 Boxer; 22 Dodo; 23 Pacifist.

DOWN: 2 Elector; 3 Answers; 4 Encyclopaedia; 6 Trivial; 7 Mandate; 8 Ironed; 13 Clubbed; 14 Ordered; 15 Spread; 16 Cast off; 17 Usurers.