Crossword Puzzle

Quick Clues

ACROSS

7. Enquired (5)

8. Report (7)

9. Drinking vessel (7)

10. Big cat (5)

12. Sensual (10)

15. Drinks shop (3-7)

18. Strict (5)

19. Capital of Libya (7)

21. Withdraw (7)

22. Depart (5)

DOWN

1. Hard to please (10)

2. Penniless, slang (5)

3. Notion (4)

4. Open carriage (6)

5. Overjoyed (8)

6. Underground cell (7)

11. Held back (10)

13. Eastern (8)

14. Personal property (7)

16. Group of buildings (6)

17. Holy book of Islam (5)

20. Lazy (4)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Landscape; 8 Rye; 9 Progressive; 11 Precede; 12 Twist; 13 Robust; 15 Beaten; 17 Irate; 18 Stumble; 20 Improvident; 22 Nun; 23 Extenuate

DOWN: 2 Air; 3 Spree; 4 Answer; 5 Epistle; 6 Predictable; 7 Penitence; 10 Overbearing; 11 Parsimony; 14 Steeple; 16 Escort; 19 Union; 21 Nut.

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7. The teacher loses his head and makes a bloomer (5)

8. Refinement of artificially produced bacteria (7)

9. Drag along to a priest when upset (7) 10. Piano part for one of the common herd (5) 12. Did a key job in providing a change of air (10)

15. A relation not lacking in spirit (5,5)

18. This kind of energy also changes by the end of the summer (5)

19. Chemical container sent back with speed (7)

21. Organise a place for target practice, we hear (7)

22. Pursue one leaving the carriage (5)

DOWN

1. Do they encourage people to get cracking at the spring festival? (6,4)

2. Be guilty of taking offence (5)

3. Collapse — minor operation needed after doctor is seen (4)

4. Make a film and remove any coarse material (6)

5. On which insects come to a sticky end (8) 6. Pays out for a stiff examination (7)

11. Put at risk and getting shockingly enraged in the finish (10)

13. Modest enough to be giving up office (8) 14. They take the heat out of prisons (7) 16. Quadrupedal vehicle! (6) 17 No Christian involved in propaganda (5)

20. Steered a devious course, one hears, showing adroitness in manipulation (4)