Crossword Puzzle

NO. 16 438

Quick Clues ACROSS

1. Change (5)

4. Rise (5,2)

8. Glass (7)

9. Unspoken (5)

10. Cupid (4)

11. Encounter (8)

13. Location (4)

14. Front (4)

16. Way in (8)

17. Raced (4)

20. Slacked (5)

21. Speech (7)

22. Interminable (7)

23. Deserve (5)

DOWN

1. Simultaneously

(2,3,4,4)

2. Pace (5) 3. Regulation (4) 4. Hit (6)

5. Forward (8) 6. Refuse (7)

7. End the matter

(3,3,3,2,2) 12. Bestride (8)

13. Paid off (7) 15. Transversely (6) 18. Earlier (5) 19. Cripple (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1. This teaching group has chemistry first, girl! (5)

4. Discovered 50 worked for pay (7)

8. Stage position for virtuous actor? (7)

9. Musically famous? (5)

10. Cultivate the ground — there could be money in it! (4)

11. Honest dealing not bad for theatre-goers? (4,4)

13. The first murderer is able to take one in (4)

14. Food from the distant orient (4)

16. As used in underground trial? (4,4)

17. Beat roundly in return game (4)

20. Claw used in fight, along with teeth (5)

21. Sees disturbance about one in the morning in Thailand (7)

22. Smaller at the finish, yet never finishing (7)

23. Connections of course (5)

DOWN

1. Obviously not a rude name for a peer’s offspring (8,5)

2. The month to make a fool of you first (5)

3. Herb is a wise man (4)

4. Deadly, but allowed by Prince Henry (6)

5. Irregular moral ban? (8)

6. Girl at birth, that is (7)

7. Fly with little ones being able to take long strides? (5-8)

12. Side can’t disguise reserve (8)

13. Actors went first and made a move on board (7)

15. Sailor employs corrupt practices (6)

18. The early bird won’t get it, of course (3,2)

19. 500 are unwell in Parliament (4)