the crosswords

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

01 Go through the cases but don’t accept any (7) 04 You’ll like it if you like fruit tart (5) 07 Blue or white flower (4) 08 Blamed chef initially before having made certain (8) 10 Alternative choice of size expressed in round numbers (4,2,4) 12 Bird gets a morsel; a choice one (6) 13 Edible seed for vegetable and fruit (6) 15 Against rigid price control for winter motoring (10) 18 Sort of feeling one gets when the siege is broken? (8) 19 Man for example spreading lies (4) 20 Wins a game with colleagues (5) 21 How people who snore sleep? (7)

DOWN

01 Dug up some fabric (5) 02 The rapidity with which a famous person loses heart (8) 03 Pterodactyl never contrives comeback smoothly (6) 04 Becomes discouraged when short lease is arranged (5,5) 05 Note from an extinct currency (4) 06 Certainly bound to change (2,5) 09 Still waiting for a formal proposal? (10) 11 Not skilled and prosaic presumably (8) 12 A bad-tempered pet (7) 14 Several who have taken the plunge (6) 16 Poem causing wild glee at the end of the day (5) 17 Ground plan (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

01 Fail to fulfil obligation (7) 04 Loaves in one baking (5) 07 Grow weary (4) 08 Crazy (8) 10 Snobbish (5-5) 12 Breed of small hound (6) 13 Curt (6) 15 Knowing everything (10) 18 Go ahead! (4,4) 19 Feel the loss of (4) 20 Southern US state (5) 21 Upper hand in contest (7)

DOWN

01 Crash-land at sea (5) 02 Utterly ludicrous (8) 03 State of lethargy (6) 04 Consecutive (4-2-4) 05 Sort (4) 06 Area of potential trouble (3,4) 09 Assuredly (2,3,5) 11 Certain to succeed (4-4) 12 Advantage (7) 14 Allay hostility of (6) 16 Pleasing in flavour (5) 17 Decisive point at issue (4)