CROSSWORDS

Convey sheer (9) Bull ring? (5) To snub a girl may be wounding (7) 10 Firs do make attractive features in Norway (6) 11 Game in which you have to leap about (6) 12 Stop in front of a low building (8) 15 One point on a fork is unpleasantly sharp (8) 18 It’s old, perhaps, and not easily moved (6) 20 I’d seem upset by a death (6) 21 Sailor reads about scrapes (7) 22 Total issue (5) 23 Trace idea that is wrong and root it out (9) 1

8 9 1 8 9

10

11 12 15 18 20 21 22 23 ecstasy

2 One way to go right out Chief port of Spain (9) Infantile paralysis (5) Temporary encampment (7) Contemptuous disregard (6) Genial (6) Charlatan (8) A three-sided figure (8) Feel humiliated (6) Wretchedness (6) Denote (7) Distance to target (5) Southeast Asian port (9) 3 4

5 6 7 11 13 14 16 17 19 2 3 4 5 6 7

11 13 14 16 17 19 East (5) Seaman in a hold (6) Father’s fur coat is good enough (8) It’s exhausting, but follow it up with a telephone call (6) Any girl so mistreated might react thus (7) Expression of annoyance for your immediate occupation (9) Completed the course and got dead drunk (6,3) Fair description of a reformed character (3,2,3) The bishop is formal and had a meal (7) Wish to reside in style (6) Patchy picture of an ancient lawgiver (6) Nitre treated like nitrogen (5) Privately (5) Polish composer (6) Erudition (8) Ancient Greek sun god (6) Flirtatious (7) Major north European port (9) US east coast port (9) Urgent (8) Absent (7) Anxiety (6) A root vegetable (6) Relate (5)