CRYPTIC CLUES

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Public garden (4)

3. Craving (8)

9. Increase (7)

10. Books (5)

11. Reserve (6,6)

13. Abdicate (6)

15. Straight (6)

17. Temporariness (12)

20. Flagrant (5)

21. Object (7)

22. Ailment (8)

23. Cure (4)

DOWN

1. Force (8)

2. Memento (5)

4. Gratify (6)

5. Exorbitant (12)

6. Enormous (7)

7. Simple (4)

8. Sinner (12)

12. Airy (8)

14. Order to appear (7)

16. Transfix (6)

18. Alcove (5)

19. Old (4)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 6 Heathen; 7 Defer; 9 Rapid; 10 Expanse; 12 Merchandise; 14 Embarrassed; 18 Compass; 19 Scull; 21 Knead; 22 Respond.

DOWN: 1 Legal; 2 Strike; 3 Fee; 4 Demand; 5 Persist; 8 Exhaust; 11 Actress; 13 Impound; 15 Appeal; 16 Escape; 17 Plant; 20 Hew.

ACROSS DOWN

1. Go in search of a chalet round the north 1. Domestic servant, we hear, not turned out (4) of a factory! (4-4)

Give an approximate value for a different An important Ethiopian drink (5) site, my friend (8) Southern Irish lake becomes a marsh (6) Engine component required, but got name Lightly heated in container of French mixed up (7) perfume! (12)

Secret place for money, by the sound of Old, broken tin-can holding the end of a it (5) candle (7)

Instructor at the School of Artillery? (6,6) They produce young animals for some of Do I act in the guise of an Indian thug? (6) the vintage westerns (4)

Street dog gone astray (6) 8. Here are the liqueurs, brothers (12)

Get up before ten (4,3,5) 12. The rest stop making complaints (8) Coming from the north it’s unpleasantly 14. Cameron diverted to Italian location (7) piercing (5) 16. Colonial pioneer in the Dodecanese (6)

21. Reduces to the bare essentials (7) 18. & 23Ac. In a state of military preparedness,

22. Produce a second rating (8) supplies insufficient weapons (5,4)

23. See 18 Down Back in December it seemed to cause provocation (4)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 6 Keepers; 7 Get on; 9 Alien; 10 Opaline; 12 Private ward; 14 Make a report; 18 Pass out; 19 Steak; 21 Ashes; 22 Engrave.

DOWN: 1 Cells; 2 Appear; 3 Dry; 4 Fellow; 5 Joiners; 8 Epitaph; 11 Overdue; 13 Malaise; 15 Easter; 16 Retire; 17 Carve; 20 Inn. 3. 9. 10.

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