{ THE CROSSWORDS }
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 He’s on the way to work (4,6)
8 Waves get bigger (5) 9 High-flown writings (3,4) 10 Extract from part of a book about a ship (7)
11 Do fully (5)
12 Smoking jacket? (6)
14 Dead or possibly idolised (6)
17 Go beyond on alfresco celebration (5) 19 Stern-looking sportsmen (7) 21 Literary characters with a leaning to the right (7) 22 Unusual Roman dwelling house (5)
23 Fresh eggs a change from fruit? (10)
DOWN
2 Exercise supervision in place
of a bishop (7)
3 A current issue on the coast
(5)
4 Gloss over (6)
5 Laughed at, that indeed is
clear (7)
6 Show some response about a variety performance (5)
7 He contributes to the liquid
assets of a bank (5,5)
8 Very rapid form of
percussion (10)
13 Exciting feeling (7)
15 Love can be complicated in a
foreign city (7)
16 Relation puts us in the
money (6)
18 Archer’s accent? (5)
20 Dance that comes from Cuba
and Burma (5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Let slip an opportunity (4,3,3) 8 A waiting line (5)
9 Put on trial (7)
10 Faced with a problem (2,1,4) 11 Drainage channel (5)
12 Quality arousing pity (6) 14 Hostility (6)
17 Group of eight (5)
19 A subdivision (7)
21 Ignorant (7)
22 Exact counterpart (5)
23 Pay heed (4,6)
DOWN
2 Imprecise (7)
3 Precipitous (5) 4 Exuberantly cordial (6) 5 Russian composer (7) 6 Rapid (5)
7 Very gradually (4,2,4) 8 Reciprocal exchange (4,3,3) 13 Australian bush country (7) 15 Senseless (7)
16 Aft (6)
18 Area of land (5)
20 A celestial body (5)