{ THE CROSSWORDS }
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Applied no makeup but was brilliantly arrayed (9)
8 I note and see nothing in such a home (5) 9 King surrounded by subjects in sunny area (7) 10 Strips for an eyecatching effect (6)
11 Cause for sanity (6)
12 Serviceman set about alteration of the range (8)
15 Don’t forget a bent one needs reshaping (4,4) 18 Go ahead with leash attached (4,2)
20 Easily swayed? (6)
21 Time coming round to be in credit (7)
22 With time a small work becomes a major one (5)
23 He doesn’t accept the orthodox view of tiredness (9)
DOWN
2 Possibly eager to approve a proposal (5) 3 Strongly disapprove of what a model will do after work? (6)
4 One with a permit to break silence over a point (8)
5 Enjoy sitting around quaint inn eating (6) 6 Heavens, what a cast! (3-4)
7 Until pool is improved there’s contamination (9)
11 Missiles that make spells of fighting warm (9) 13 Puts in again (2-6)
14 It secures plaster cast (7)
16 Song and dance get little publicity (6) 17 Possibly croon about a furry animal (6) 19 Overweight roundheaded wild bees (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Synonym dictionary (9) 8 Long for (5)
9 Bauble (7)
10 City of the waltz (6) 11 Stock of wines (6) 12 Teach (8)
15 Finally (2,6)
18 Vigour (6)
20 Unseemly frivolity (6) 21 Up-to-date (7) 22 Cranium (5)
23 In another place (9)
DOWN
2 Multitude (5)
3 Unmarried (6) 4 Consistently accurate (8) 5 Text of broadcast (6) 6 Distressing (7)
7 Tempted to do wrong (3,6) 11 Debacle (9)
13 Timetable (8)
14 Taste (7)
16 A type of weed (6)
17 Quest (6)
19 Someone doomed (5)