THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 A light transporter (11)
9 Composer due by ship, perhaps (7) 10 Vehicle to move the load (5)
11 Doesn’t just drink blended teas (4)
12 Meet ruin as a rebel (8)
14 Economic growth? (6)
16 He has start of a cold; twitching and feverish (6)
18 Out-of-this world advertising agent (8) 19 Short of ammunition (4)
22 Valued trade, perhaps (5)
23 Dad holding a high card can solve all problems (7)
24 Is an orator lost and speechless without it? (7,4)
DOWN
2 Go round in high circles (5)
3 Play group (4)
4 Something the barber may rub around? (3,3) 5 Four in new search for records (8)
6 Serious listener sent astray (7)
7 Publicity seekers in the driver’s seat perhaps (11)
8 Needy pupil who finds the going hard? (4,7)
13 He might make end of ref, or ref might make an end of him! (8)
15 A Dorset dish prepared in the oven (7) 17 Pitch a tent on American college grounds (6)
20 Former Chinese leader holds a bill for port (5)
21 No point to rebuke (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Lacking enthusiasm (4-7) 9 South American river (7) 10 Muscular strength (5) 11 Variety of agate (4) 12 Flustered (8)
14 Fliers (6)
16 Manage (6)
18 To direct (8)
19 To border on (4)
22 Din (5)
23 Subterfuge (7)
24 Mutual concessions (4,3,4)
DOWN
2 Friendship (5)
3 A total failure (4)
4 Sufficient (6) 5 Countervailing argument (8) 6 Lofty (7)
7 Humankind (4,7) 8 Unintentional (11) 13 Temporary respite (8) 15 Italian opera composer (7) 17 Electronic display surface (6) 20 Edge (5)
21 Poverty (4)