{ THE CROSSWORDS }
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Unbeliever is at the assembly (7) 5 Having members carrying weapons (5) 8 Unimportant Arab chiefs, we hear (2,5,6) 9 Had the odour of fish (5)
10 Time taken by a secretary (7)
11 Catch ten out with a quick blow (6) 12 Indeed upset when refused (6)
15 The rain disturbed the lock-keeper (7) 17 As a guardian, he was fabulous (5) 19 Promising gardening correspondent? (7,6) 20 Fit sound project (5)
21 Imagined me in terror (7)
DOWN
1 She is a long time around the North (5) 2 He takes the lot (7,6) 3 Indolence shown in a rite, perhaps (7) 4 Carries about a thousand emblems (6) 5 Like a layer of wood (5)
6 What bees do when really busy? (4,6,3) 7 Retired from employment? (7) 11 Show part of the evidence in court (7) 13 Deliberate destruction of character, maybe (7)
14 Produced in a dramatic way (6) 16 One is disturbed by it (5)
18 She would pack a right in a scrap (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 A conifer (7)
5 A monastic superior (5) 8 Extensively (2,1,5,5) 9 Precipitous (5)
10 Radio aerial (7) 11 Good-humoured teasing (6) 12 Unequivocally (6) 15 Shakespearean tragedy (7) 17 Scottish poet (5) 19 Flimsy (13) 20 Conveniently near (5) 21 Administrator (7)
DOWN
1 Intersect (5)
2 Chance to be prosperous (5,2,3,3) 3 Model (7) 4 Remarkable (6)
5 Valuable attribute (5) 6 Group ideas-forming session (13) 7 Curative treatment (7) 11 Uncouth (7)
13 Middle East country (7) 14 A hand-beaten drum (3-3) 16 Foyer (5)
18 Of the sun (5)