THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Professionals get by and even flourish (7) 5 He may want to change roles with the winner (5) 8 They figure a great deal in population surveys (13) 9 Send money or return the watch (5) 10 Sketch the escape route? (7) 11 To attract a number break a rule (6) 12 Yet it isn’t the motorist’s top gear (6) 15 Caught young lady going round with a journalist (7) 17 Practical joke is quietly offensive (5) 19 Defeated by the elements? (7-6) 20 Dismal king in love (5) 21 Abandons wastelands (7)

DOWN

1 A hard question for an artist’s model (5) 2 Climbing a low hill but to no great extent (2,1,5,5) 3 Dog taken in hand for teaching (7) 4 Allowance made at or in a resort (6) 5 It’s held by solicitors to be permissible (5) 6 Changing to steam trains? He should know (13) 7 Honour a relation (7) 11 Admitted everybody had debts (7) 13 Overburden journalists with work (7) 14 Loved to see the dreadnought wrecked (6) 16 This is an alternative to returning to her (5) 18 Rulers of the pack (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Corrupt (7) 5 Melodious sound (5) 8 For now (2,3,8) 9 Deal with (5) 10 Type of shellfish (7) 11 Physically weakened by age (6) 12 The king at Camelot (6) 15 Provide funds for (7) 17 Curved cavalry sword (5) 19 Explain in excessive detail (13) 20 Flavoursome (5) 21 Diffidence (7)

DOWN

1 Wind-driven snow (5) 2 Person apt to drop things (13) 3 Protection from the elements (7) 4 Fond of smart clothes (6) 5 An obsession (5) 6 Divulge secret information (5,3,5) 7 Climbing plant (7) 11 Ahead of the field (2,5) 13 To answer (7) 14 Deprive of wind for sailing (6) 16 Penurious (5) 18 Adversary (5)