THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Riding school discipline is a habit that comes with time (8)
5 Encourage a wager (4)
9 Turner writes bi-lingual articles (5)
10 Odd way to keep moving (7)
11 Medically speaking, not a place for a second helping (5-3,4)
13 Use fan wrongly and it becomes dangerous (6) 14 He has the skills to make a suit (6)
17 Gloomy record playing far into the night (12) 20 I belong to base order (7)
21 For bread as yet to be mixed (5)
22 Pole gets to feel sick in voyage (4)
23 Fish in turn goes bad (8)
DOWN
1 He could be told, but probably wouldn’t understand (4)
2 Competitors making records (7) 3 They’re not sown in the minds of certain people (5,2,5)
4 Yet his talk is far from uplifting (6)
6 Mr Crosby wins nothing in a game of chance (5)
7 It’s a tree used in a composition (8)
8 He may make several calls before getting the contract (6,6)
12 Source of heat dehydrates various items (8) 15 Go back round the terrace (7)
16 It’s way up as money (6)
18 Deserted area is in a bad way (5) 19 Things cracked up to stupefy (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Sharpness of speech (8) 5 Stopper (4) 9 Incorrect (5) 10 Emblem of Scotland (7) 11 Wasted (4,3,5) 13 Disinclined (6)
14 Ship (6)
17 Win most applause (5,3,4) 20 Emit sharp noises (7) 21 Insert (5)
22 Earthly paradise (4) 23 Private (8)
DOWN
1 At a great distance (4) 2 Embodiment (7) 3 Efficient and methodical (12) 4 Peevishly sensitive (6) 6 Prefix for extremely (5) 7 A garden pest (8) 8 Vacuity (12)
12 Carnage (8)
15 Curtail (7)
16 Steal (6) 18 Obliterate (5)
19 Spoken (4)