CRYPTIC CLUES
Quick Clues
ACROSS
1. Storehouse (10)
7. Cook (5)
8. Accumulated (7)
10. Dotage (8)
11. Member (4)
13. Sturdy (6)
15. Light shoe (6)
17. Afresh (4)
18. Direct (8)
21. Gleam (7)
22. Eye socket (5)
23. Fickle (10)
DOWN
1. Sketched (5)
2. Merciless (8)
3. Shack (6)
4. Rip (4)
5. Revoke (7)
6. Junction (10)
9. Weaken (10)
12. Vault (8)
14. Flaw (7)
16. Fast (6)
19. Roof end (5)
20. So be it (4)
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 6 Take out; 7 Extol; 9 Lad; 10 Indigence; 12 Displeasure; 15 Insensitive; 17 Existence; 19 Way; 21 Actor; 22 Ease off
DOWN: 1 Fatal; 2 Key; 3 Turn; 4 Extensive; 5 Concern; 8 Direct; 11 Diversion; 13 Pester; 14 Inexact; 16 Gaffe; 18 Clad; 20 Get.
ACROSS
1. The ultimate holiday venue? (4,6)
7. What a successful business makes repeatedly (5)
The first woman to interrupt this group of criminals (7)
Unseat from the other end! (8)
Terrible one going to the front line (4) Smacked for being thoroughly engrossed, we hear (6)
More than one chaplain is a father with short raiment (6)
Instrument with an unpleasant sound? (4) He’s not admitted our diet’s been changed (8)
This indicates a leak — interview young attendant (7)
Charges youths holding the ring (5)
One with a monumental job to do (10) 8.
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DOWN
1. Negotiated the vaulting horse in exercise (5)
Natural source of heat dehydrates various things (8)
Finding fault with a sailor (6)
Kind of stream in which to lose one’s footing (4)
Palindromic pick-me-up (7)
Country burial places for foreign noblemen (10)
She performs one strain after another! (10) They contain medicine and are essential for space travellers (8)
Plan to present a film (7)
Antique establishment to contemplate with some hesitation (6)
Attracted to description of indecisive contest (5)
Put on, one hears, to notify in advance (4) 2.
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19. 20. field
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 6 Rubicon; 7 Below; 9 Fir; 10 Ambitions; 12 Over and over; 15 Poor outlook; 17 Reminders; 19 Out; 21 Lethe; 22 Returns
DOWN: 1 Turin; 2 Kit; 3 Room; 4 Semicolon; 5 Founder; 8 Signal; 11 Oversight; 13 Rounds; 14 However; 16 Burns; 18 Reel; 20 Put.